Golf Saudi’s Aramco Team Series sizzles in Spain

This weekend saw Golf Saudi host leading female Saudi personalities at the second Aramco Team Series tournament of the year in Sotogrande, Spain.

The visitors were on hand to help promote the game of golf goth at home and worldwide. including Saudi health coach and entrepreneur Nawal Alkhalawi, the founder of the first Saudi female football team Maram Albutairi, and social media influencer Hana Bassrawi. As part of the introduction to golf, coaches were on hand to provide the participating ladies with some beginner’s tips that would help them pick up the game, as well as some fun challenges and the chance to try their hand on a golf simulator.

The clinic also saw the roll-out of Golf Saudi’s newest event activation, a challenge course which introduces participants to the game in a fun and easy way. Following the conclusion of the clinic, participants were also treated to a tour of the golf course at La Reserva Club in Spain.

Golf Saudi’s Mass Participation programme remains a top priority for the organisation as it seeks to attract and inspire the next generation of Saudis to take up the game and develop future champions.

Albutairi said the work that Golf Saudi was doing to promote the game was a good sign for the future of the Saudi women’s sports sector: “It was such an honour being in Sotogrande for the second Aramco Team Series tournament and to have the chance to meet in-person with such an array of talented female golfers. As a Director of Eastern Flames Football Club in Saudi Arabia, I know first-hand the positive impact that sport can play in the lives of young girls and women. It’s great that Golf Saudi is paving a way not only for Saudi female golfers but for other women internationally, giving them the opportunities to learn, develop and compete in world class tournaments.”

An event entirely unique to golf, The Aramco Team Series consists of 36 teams made up of three professionals and one amateur with scores from all four contributing to the final result. Following the inaugural London and the conclusion of the Sotogrande event, the Series will now move onto New York in October and finally Jeddah in November.