Last Wednesday, during the Liv Golf Proam in Riyad, a 13 -year -old Saudi young woman, Handicap 5, demonstrated ways next to the Chilean Mito Pereira. By age, by potential, perhaps in a few years the first woman golfer of the country that reaches the amateur women’s world ranking, a classification that, of course, also does not have any registered professional representative.
The ambitious project of the kingdom with that world circuit, which has a dynamizer of new investments out of Arabia in the golf industry, although also a strategy for resorts to boost inner golf tourism, with 27 resorts, is not synchronized with A sports policy that permeates the culture of this sport an extraordinarily young and very enthusiastic nation, especially with football
The fun mixture, with concerts and golf, plus the fact that it happens at night, moved thousands of citizens of the capital to Riyahd Golf Club, but clearly driven by the playful aspect.
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The numbers support this statement. There are barely practitioners. Including the expatriates, not the tourists, according to a study of 2022, in Saudi some 8,000 golfers a year play in the 14 resorts they have, tours that will reach almost double by 2030. It only has four professional players and the best of them , Khalid Attieh, dispute the Asian Tour. His best result in the last two seasons, with 29 years, has been a fifteenth seventh place in Indonesia last year. Even twelve Saudis are censored in this classification, but due to insulated appearances in very lower, almost local circuits. Among them Prince Khalid Bin Saud al Faisal, one of the greatest fans of this sport in the country.
In a nation that in addition to LIV also supports, through the Aramco company, the world’s largest billing with 160,000 million dollars of profits in 2022, several tests in the women’s golf, which are part of the Ladies European Tour, the plans They go to create quarry with roads that are yet to be assembled. “I wish this had happened 20 years ago,” the Royal Family Member had a few years ago.