This morning, at the 2020 AIG Women’s Open, the Ladies European Tour’s most prolific winner, Dame Laura Davies, will make her historic 40th appearance at the prestigious championship at Royal Troon and has the honour of striking the first tee shot at 6.30am alongside Northern Irish amateur Olivia Mehaffey and Canadian Alena Sharp.
The 45-time LET winner, who has 42 ‘other’ worldwide victories including 20 on the LPGA Tour and four major championships, truly has an unrivalled CV with victories around the world in countries including; UK, U.S, Belgium, Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, India, Japan and Thailand.
Davies, who first teed-it-up in the Women’s Open at Wentworth in 1980 as a 16-year-old amateur and won the championship at Royal Birkdale in 1986, said.
“If you’d have said back in Wentworth, you’ll play 40 of these and never miss one, I’d say don’t be ridiculous. I had to qualify a couple of years ago at Kingsbarns but because of the past champion rule, I’ve managed to have an amazing run and I’ve been able to play this great event so many times.”
Off in the first three-ball of the day, Davies is hoping to get around in double-quick time to avoid the forecasted wet and windy weather. But, whatever the weather today, Laura Davies will go down in AIG Women’s Open history and it is clear her peers think so too.
The World No 2 Danielle Kang said:
“In my opinion, it’s remarkable because Dame Laura Davies is a legend, an absolute legend, and she’s a role model how she approaches the game, how she plays the game is different, her style of golf is different, and she’s so strong in how she plays and plays her game, yet so different and it’s so graceful. For her to be able to play this Open Championship for 40 appearances, that is amazing."
The 2018 champion Georgia Hall said:
“She’s a great friend and person and idol to look up to. I actually texted her last night saying, oh, look at you hitting the first tee shot; don’t hold us up. She’s great fun and obviously she still loves playing the game. It’s amazing. I kind of pulled up to the car park and I have my 2018 champion space and I look down and it’s Laura in her 1986 spot and I had a joke with her that I was born ten years later than that, and she found that funny. She’s a really lovely person, and I love being on Tour with her”.
Follow Laura Davies and the rest of the all-star 144-player field on the LET website and via social channels @LETgolf and @Ladies European Tour on Facebook. #AIGWO @AIGWomensOpen
Watch on Sky Sports:
Thursday: 10:30 – 13:30 and 15:00 – 18:00
Friday: 10:30 – 13:30 and 15:00 – 18:00
Saturday: 14:00 – 19:00
Sunday 13:00 – 18:0
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