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The finishing flourish to the new Rose Ladies Series has been announced. The series, which already is underway, now will close with an event at the Shire, the only Seve Ballesteros design in the UK, on 30 July. This will be followed on 6-7 August with a two-part finale in which the first of the days will be staged at the Berkshire and the second over Wentworth's West Course.
The retail outlet American Golf have chipped in £35,000 towards a mini-equivalent of The Race to Dubai, with this version going under the name of "Race to the West."
The concluding run also is fitting in that the West Course is where it all began for Rose. As a small boy, he would go to Wentworth and carry a board at the Match-Play championship before hanging around the 18th green where he would be in with a chance of picking up the odd golf ball from his great heroes, players such as Ballesteros and Ernie Els.
Charley Hull won the opening event Thursday at Brokenhurst when she defeated Liz Young, a member of the home club as well as of the LET, at the first extra hole. Both women returned 70s on a wet and wind-tossed day before Hull finished things off with a 12-foot birdie putt.
"I've missed it loads," said Hull of her lack of competitive golf in the past few months. “I want to thank Justin and Kate Rose for putting these events on for us.
"I've been playing a lot for the last few weeks and I played eight days on the trot before today. But it’s just not the same as having a scorecard in your hand. I’ll go back to America in four weeks’ time, so hopefully this series will get my brain back into tournament golf."
Lewine Mair