Last Wednesday, during the Liv Golf Pro-am in Riyadh, a 13-year-old Saudi girl Handicap 5 showed her talent along with the Chilean Mito Pereira. Due to her age and potential, she may be the first female golfist in a country that has achieved amateur women who have been able to do in a few years in a few years, of course, that of course, he also has no registered professional representative.
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The ambitious kingdom project with this world circuit, which has the golf industry as the driving force of new investments outside Saudi Arabia, as well as a strategy to support domestic golf tourism through resorts, with 27 resorts, is not synchronized with sports policy it goes through the culture of this sport in extraordinary sport in extraordinary sport young and very enthusiastic state, especially with football
The combination of entertainment, concerts and golf Plus the fact that it takes place at night has moved thousands of citizens of the capital to the Riyahd golf club, but clearly driven by the recreational aspect.
The numbers back up this statement. There are no data on the practitioners. Including emigrants, not tourists, according to a study 2022, in Saudi Arabia, about 8,000 golfers play a year in 14 resorts that have, courses that almost double by 2030. He has only four professional players and the best of them, Khalid Attieh, plays on an Asian tour. His best result in the last two seasons, at the age of 29, was last year in Indonesia of the fifty -seventh place. Up to twelve Saudi will appear in this classification, but for very isolated performances on very smaller, almost local circuits. Among them is Prince Khalid bin Saud Al Faisal, one of the biggest fans of this sport in the country.
In a nation, which in addition to Liv also supports Aramco, the company with the highest turnover in the world with $ 160 million profits in 2022, several events in women’s golf, which are part of the women’s European show, plans include creating a quarry with some routes that are still They must build. “I wish it happened 20 years ago,” said a member of the royal family, hopefully a few years ago.
