The PIF Saudi Ladies International is a professional

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tournament on the

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(LET), played since

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History

The inaugural tournament was first played in

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at Royal Greens Golf & Country Club in

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by the

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. It was the penultimate regular LET event of the 2020 season and marked the first time professional lady golfers played competitively in the country. It was followed the week after by the

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, a team event that would later evolve into the

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. For the 2023 tournament, the prize money increased from $1 million to $5 million, giving parity with the men's Saudi International for the first time. In 2024, for its fifth installment, the tournament moved to the Riyadh Golf Club in

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. For 2025, the format was changed to that of the

. The tournament was reduced to 54 holes and $0.5 million of the purse was allocated to a team event over the first two days. The 112-player field was made up of 62 LET players, 42 players from the top-300 in the

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, and eight tournament invitations.

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