ISPS Handa World Invitational. LET

With the final major of the year complete, the Ladies European Tour returns to Northern Ireland for the next stop on the schedule.

The ISPS Handa World Invitational, which is co-sanctioned with the DP World Tour and LPGA Tour, is next up on the calendar.

It will be the third edition of the tournament and Galgorm once again will be one of the venues, while this year Castlerock is the second course that the players will play.

There are two separate 72-hole stroke play tournaments for men and women with two separate prize funds of $1,500,000.

For the first two rounds, all players will play one round at Galgorm and one round at Castlerock Golf Club. The men and women will play in separate alternating groups on both courses.

In rounds three and four, the men and women will again play in separate alternating groups in score order (within the separate tournaments) at Galgorm only.

There will be a cut to the top 60 professionals and ties after 36 holes, and another cut to the top 35 players and ties after 54 holes.

Ireland’s Leona Maguire is the top-ranked player in the field this week as she is No. 14 in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings with England’s Georgia Hall the next best at No. 16.

Hall finished in third place at the 2022 edition of the tournament while Maguire ended the week in 10th place with both hoping to improve that this week.

Five LET players head into this week off the back of best-ever finishes in a major at last week’s AIG Women’s Open with Olivia Cowan (T9), Alice Hewson (T16), Diksha Dagar (T21), Kylie Henry (T44) and Cara Gainer (T61).

There are three Northern Irish players teeing it up this week on home soil with Olivia Mehaffey, Stephanie Meadow and Jessica Ross.

Thursday ladies tee times
Hole 1 (GAL denotes Galgorm, CAS for Castlerock)
7.30 GAL, Ursula Wikstrom (FIN), Lauren Stephenson (USA), Tiffany Arafi (SUI)
7.52 GAL, Gabriella Then (USA), Liz Young (ENG), Jessica Ross (NIR)
8.14 GAL, Eleanor Givens (ENG), Mariajo Uribe (COL), Ayaka Sugihara (JPN)
8.36 GAL, Yealimi Noh (USA), Sara Kjellker (SWE), Elin Arvidsson (SWE)
8.58 GAL, Bianca Pagdanganan (PHI), Allison Emrey (USA), Annabel Dimmock (ENG)
9.20 GAL, Tereza Melecka (CZE), Sarah Jane Smith (AUS), Jing Yan (CHN)

Hole 10
7.30 GAL, Jasmine Suwannapura (THA), Manon De Roey (BEL), Kylie Henry (SCO)
7.52 GAL, Christine Wolf (AUT), Luna Sobron Galmes (ESP), Ana Belac (SLO)
8.14 GAL, Meghan MacLaren (ENG). Dewi Weber (NED), Jennifer Song (USA)
8.36 GAL, Becky Brewerton (WAL), Annie Park (USA), Linnea Johansson (SWE)
8.58 GAL, Valery Plata (COL), Noora Komulainen (FIN), Chanettee Wannasaen (THA)
9.20 GAL, Leonie Harm (GER), Tiffany Chan (HKG), Yuri Onishi (JPN)

Hole 1
12.30 GAL, Sarah Kemp (AUS), Trichat Cheenglab (THA), Alice Hewson (ENG)
12.52 GAL, Cara Gainer (ENG), Stephanie Meadow (NIR), Ryann O’Toole (USA)
13.14 GAL, Georgia Hall (ENG), Albane Valenzuela (SUI), Esther Henseleit (GER)
13.36 GAL, Emily Kristine Pedersen (DEN), Ana Pelaez Trivino (ESP), Azahara Munoz (ESP)
13.58 GAL, Yu Liu (CHN), Chiara Noja (GER), Olivia Mehaffey (NIR)
14.20 GAL, Muni He (CHN), Diksha Dagar (IND), Lea Anne Bramwell (WAL)

Hole 10
12.30 GAL, Marissa Steen (USA), Emma Grechi (FRA), Marta Sanz Barrio (ESP)
12.52 GAL, Kelly Tan (MAS), April Angurasaranee (THA), Marianne Skarpnord (NOR)
13.14 GAL, Casandra Alexander (RSA), Peiyun Chien (TPE), Nuria Iturrioz (ESP)
13.36 GAL, Maria Hernandez (ESP), Emma Talley (USA), Frida Kinhult (SWE)
13.58 GAL, Aline Krauter (GER), Soo Bin Joo (KOR), Maiken Bing Paulsen (NOR)
14.20 GAL, Madelene Stavnar (NOR), Samantha Wagner (USA), Amelia Lewis (USA)

Hole 1
7.30 CAS, Clara Manzalini (ITA), Karis Davidson (AUS), Agathe Sauzon (FRA)
7.52 CAS, Anne-Charlotte Mora (FRA), Yu-Sang Hou (TPE), Chloe Williams (WAL)
8.14 CAS, Moa Folke (SWE), Lucy Li (USA), Kim Metraux (SUI)
8.36 CAS, Ellinor Sudow (SWE), Louise Ridderstrom (SWE), Emma Spitz (AUT)
8.58 CAS, Laura Beveridge (SCO), Sydnee Michaels (USA), Su Oh (AUS)
9.20 CAS, Weiwei Zhang (CHN), Alexandra Forsterling (GER), Ilhee Lee (KOR)

Hole 10
7.30 CAS, Anais Meyssonnier (FRA), Lauren Hartlage (USA), Jennifer Chang (USA)
7.52 CAS, Olivia Cowan (GER), Nicole Garcia (RSA), Lee-Anne Pace (RSA)
8.14 CAS, Mina Harigae (USA), Anne Van Dam (NED), Leona Maguire (IRL)
8.36 CAS, Alessandra Fanali (ITA), Bronte Law (ENG), Nicole Broch Estrup (DEN)
8.58 CAS, Daniela Darquea (ECU), Lily May Humphreys (ENG) Patricia Isabel Schmidt (GER)
9.20 CAS, Daniela Holmqvist (SWE), Lisa Pettersson (SWE), Jaravee Boonchant (THA)

Hole 1
12.30 CAS, Kum-Kang Park (KOR), Anna Magnusson (SWE), Louise Duncan (SCO)
12.52 CAS, Polly Mack (GER), Yuna Nishimura (JPN), Gabriella Cowley (ENG)
13.14 CAS, Michele Thomson (SCO), Riley Rennell (USA), Gina Kim (USA)
13.36 CAS, Kristyna Napoleaova (CZE), Pornanong Phatlum (THA), Alexa Pano (USA)
13.58 CAS, Dottie Ardina (PHI), Sophie Witt (GER), Wichanee Meechai (THA)
14.20 CAS, Hayley Davis (ENG), Kiira Riihijarvi (FIN), Lauren Holmey (NED)

Hole 10
12.30 CAS, Nastasia Nadaud (FRA), Sofia Garcia (PAR), Sara Kouskova (CZE)
12.52 CAS, Pavarisa Yoktuan (THA), Lydia Hall (WAL), Jana Melichova (CZE)
13.14 CAS, Pia Babnik (SLO), Ruixin Liu (CHN), Christina Kim (USA)
13.36 CAS, Rosie Davies (ENG), Laura Wearn (USA), Magdalena Simmermacher (ARG)
13.58 CAS, Amanda Doherty (USA), Maria Fernanda Torres (PUR), Hannah Burke (ENG)
14.20 CAS, Sanna Nuutinen (FIN), Yaeeun Hong (KOR), Arpichaya Yubol (THA)