University of North Carolina Athletics
Cloots, Mallett Set For Ladies European Tour Qualifying
December 15, 2017 | Women's Golf
MARRAKECH, MOROCCO - Former Tar Heel standouts Leslie Cloots and Elizabeth Mallett will begin competition in the Lalla Aicha Tour School Saturday. The tournament is the final stage of qualifying for the Ladies European Tour and will take place through Wednesday, December 20.Â
Cloots, a native of Antwerp, Belgium, graduated from Carolina in May after leading the Tar Heels to back-to-back NCAA Championships appearances. She recently wrapped up her rookie year on the Symetra Tour. Mallett, hailing from Sutton Coldfield, England, was a senior on the 2016 Tar Heel squad that finished 14th at the NCAA Championships. She competed on the 2017 Ladies European Tour.
A total of 106 players from 18 countries will compete at Amelkis Golf and Palm Golf Ourika Marrakech, which was designed in a desert-style landscape by Canadians Neil Haworth and Stephane Talbot and opened in November 2015.
The Final Stage of Lalla Aicha Tour School will be played on two courses over five rounds (90 holes), with the players split into two fields, A and B, playing on alternate courses for the first four rounds, after which there will be a cut to the top 60 players and ties going into the fifth and final round, which will be played at Palm Golf Ourika.
The top five players will gain Category 5b status of the Ladies European Tour for the 2018 season. Those players placed 6th – 25th will gain category 8a status.
The Ladies European Tour's Qualifying School was first played in Morocco in 2012, when it was renamed Lalla Aicha Tour School in honour of HRH the Late Princess Lalla Aicha. The tournament is organised by the Hassan II Golf Trophy Association (ATH), chaired by His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid. ATH also organises the Lalla Meryem Cup, a full-field event on the LET.
ROUND 1 TEE TIMES (EST)
4:44 a.m. - Elizabeth Mallett
5:22 a.m. - Leslie ClootsÂ
ROUND 2 TEE TIMES (EST)
4:22 a.m. - Leslie Cloots
5:33 a.m. - Elizabeth Mallett
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