After four years at Mission Hills Haikou, this is the first time that the World Ladies Championship will be played on the acclaimed Olazabal Course, a three-time venue for the World Cup of Golf, at Mission Hills Dongguan.

As well as a new venue, an upsized field of 126 competitors and the tri-sanctioning of the tournament, a further development is a 33 per cent increase in total prize money to US $800,000. With US $700,000 for the individual strokeplay tournament alone, the winner will earn US $105,000.
The World Ladies Championship continues its long-standing partnership with the world’s leading renowned global services brand, American Express.

Dongguan, China—:China’s Lin Xiyu says that this week’s World Ladies Championship at Mission Hills Resort Dongguan will be the ideal warm up for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro where she will be targeting individual and national glory.
Although only individual medals will be awarded when golf returns to the Games this summer for the first time since 1904, the World Ladies Championship’s innovative format includes a team competition based on the combined scores of two players from the same country.
Lin said: “This tournament is kind of similar to the Olympics because we are playing for ourselves but also as part of a team and I’m here with Pan Yan-Hong. We were part of the same Province team before, when we played on the National team, so we know each other. We are a team but we are playing our own games.