TEAMS CONFIRMED FOR MISSION HILLS WORLD LADIES CHAMPIONSHIP IN CHINA
2014/02/24HAIKOU, CHINA: 21 February 2014 - The next Ladies European Tour event is the Mission Hills World Ladies Championship in China, which will be held on the challenging Blackstone Course at Mission Hills Haikou, on the paradise island of Hainan, from 6-9 March.Serving as the LET’s fourth stop of 2014 and co-sanctioned with the China LPGA Tour, the tournament has attracted a stellar field of competitors and with live international television coverage it will be an inspirational showcase of high performance sport.The World Ladies Championship is unique in professional golf in that it consists of three events in one – an individual professional competition, a professional team championship in which countries are represented by teams of two, and an individual amateur tournament, all played simultaneously over 72-holes of stroke play.The Blackstone course will play host to the tournament for the first time. The crown jewel of Mission Hills Resort Haikou, the Blackstone opened in 2010 and was named Asia’s ‘Best New Course’ by GOLF magazine in the United States as well as ‘Asia Pacific Best Championship Course’ by Asian Golf Monthly magazine.The course weaves through a striking landscape of mature trees, lava rock, and expansive lakes and wetlands. Lava rock walls and village ruins created years ago remain as a testament to the site’s past. As a premiere tournament venue, the Blackstone Course hosted Asia’s only golf and entertainment event, the Mission Hills World Celebrity Pro Am, as well as the 2011 World Cup of Golf in which Matt Kuchar and Gary Woodland of the USA were victorious and The Match at Mission Hills between Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy in October 2013.