KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, Saudi Arabia – Two years after it first invested in women’s golf, Golf Saudi is raising the prize money of the Aramco Saudi Ladies International from $1 million to $5 million, making it equal to the men’s prize fund and the seventh-highest in all of women’s golf.
The Saudi Ladies International, with the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund as a presenting sponsor, is part of the Ladies European Tour. The winner will get $750,000, more or equal to the entire purse of 27 tournaments on the LET.
The Saudi International, now part of the Asian Tour, raised its purse to $5 million this year for the tournament won by Harold Varner III.