With huge winners Minjee Lee and Hannah Inexperienced already entered for the Open from December 1-4 at Victoria Golf Membership and Kingston Heath in Melbourne, one other 5 world-class ladies have agreed to play.

Right this moment’s inductions to the sphere embody World Golf Corridor of Famer Dame Laura Davies of England, former World No.1 participant and double Grand Slam champion So Yeon Ryu of South Korea, Chinese language star and world quantity 16 Xiyu Lin, the American world quantity 16. 33 Marina Alex and Jenny Shin, a 10-year veteran of the LPGA Tour.

5-time Open winner Karrie Webb and rising Australian star Steph Kyriacou have introduced they are going to play for the Patricia Bridges Bowl in Melbourne, whereas 25-year-old Lee would be the essential attraction because the reigning US Girls’s Open champion. and present participant within the prime 5 on this planet.

AIG Girls’s Open 2022 winner Ashleigh Buhai of South Africa can also be within the subject this December.

Former World No. 1 and two-time main winner So Yeon Ryu will play on the Sandbelt. PHOTO: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Photos.

The ladies will play alongside the boys within the historic dual-gender Open in 2022, the primary nationwide Open in golf by which each sexes play in the identical venue on the identical time, for separate trophies.

The Males’s Open and Girls’s Open may have equal prize cash of $1.7 million when the Open returns to Melbourne for the primary time in a number of years, and also will function the All Talents Australian Championship for golfers with disabilities.

The lads’s subject contains the entire top-ranked Australians, together with Cameron Smith, Marc Leishman, Adam Scott, Cam Davis, Lucas Herbert, Min Woo Lee and Matt Jones, because the Open returns to worldwide prominence after a number of years on maintain resulting from journey restrictions and the pandemic

Davies, 59, is a sports activities legend, winner of 4 ladies’s main championships and two ladies’s Australian Open championships (2009 and 2004).

Inducted into the World Golf Corridor of Fame in 2015, Davies has received over 80 tournaments worldwide and has been a daily customer to the Australian circuit for over 20 years.

Ryu, 32, is a sports activities celebrity who spent 19 weeks at No. 1 on this planet in 2017. She’s additionally a daily customer to Australian shores, a six-time LPGA Tour winner, together with two main wins: the 2011 US Girls’s Open and ANA Inspiration 2017.

Ryu got here extremely near successful the Australian Girls’s Open in 2015 at Royal Melbourne, ultimately falling to Jessica Korda in a six-player playoff, and shall be decided to win her first championship on Australian soil.

Xiyu Lin, 26, is without doubt one of the prime gamers on the LPGA Tour and has rocketed into the highest 20 on this planet rankings with a string of prime 10 finishes in 2022 and a tie for eleventh on the US Girls’s Open behind the Australian Lee. this 12 months.

Alex, 32, is one other rising drive who received on the LPGA Tour this 12 months in California, whereas Shin is a former US Junior Novice Champion and Essential Tour veteran who received her first LPGA Tour occasion in 2016.

“This can be a unbelievable enhance for the event,” stated James Sutherland, CEO of Golf Australia. “Having this caliber of gamers from overseas will solely add to the thrill that the group in Melbourne will expertise with our native superstars Minjee Lee and Hannah Inexperienced enjoying at house for the primary time in an extended whereas.

“We’re delighted that a number of the finest gamers on this planet have dedicated to our event at a time once we are altering the look of the occasion and making it extra inclusive. With all of the top-ranked males’s gamers additionally returning house and a few DP World Tour gamers getting into the sphere, we’re very assured this shall be an Australian Open to recollect for a very long time.”