Major champion Ruoning Yin is excited to be playing on home soil this week as she tees it up in the Aramco China Championship on the Ladies European Tour (LET).
The Aramco China Championship is the final PIF Global Series event of 2025 and is taking place at Mission Hills China in Shenzhen between 6-8 November.
Yin, who is ranked seventh in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings, played in the tournament in 2024 where she finished in solo ninth place in the Individual event.
Last year, plenty of crowds came out in support of their home heroes and the 23-year-old is looking forward to that aspect again.
“The best memories from last year were definitely seeing all the fans come out to watch, and especially on the weekend, there was a lot of kids,” she said.
“I’ve said a hundred times before in interviews, but I just love to see kids running around on a golf course. They inspired me a lot and just looking forward to seeing that this year again.”
The field of 104 players will tee it up in a 36-hole Team competition alongside a 54-hole Individual stroke play, with a cut to the top-60 professionals and ties after 36 holes.
Yin was the last captain to pick a player for her team, thanks to her world ranking, and chose CLPGA player Jingwen Zhang with the duo also joined by Wales’ Chloe Williams and China’s Jiaying He.
She explained: “I’m the last captain who gets to pick their player, but I have known her for a long time because we played junior golf together. I don’t get a lot of chances to play with my friends from when I was growing up and I really want to enjoy this week with her.”
The World Cup Course at Mission Hills China provides a test, but is scorable as last year Yin produced rounds of 71-68-69 for her ninth-place finish on 11-under-par.
In her last two events on the LPGA Tour, the five-time LPGA winner has finished T26 at the Buick LPGA Shanghai and 12th at the Maybank Championship, and she believes her game is improving week on week.
She added: “I haven’t played a practice round yet, but from last year this course has five par-fives and some of them are reachable. You have to have a lot of shots in your bag from inside 150 yards, which is a strength of mine. I think I just need to be me to have a good score.
“My game is improving every week and especially my putting and I have just really followed my routine with every putt. So, I would say my game is getting better and better every day.”
Yin will tee it up on Thursday at 11.04 am (local time) in the Aramco China Championship at Mission Hills China.
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