Amanda Linner and Julia Engstrom will join the world’s leading women golfers in the second staging of the Fatima bint Mubarak Ladies Open at the Saadiyat Beach Golf Club from November 1-4.
The Swedish teenagers arrive in Abu Dhabi as wild-card picks of Annika Sorenstam, guest of honour at last year’s inaugural event and one of the most successful women golfers of all time.
Linner is ranked fourth in the amateur European Golf Rankings and 19th in the World Amateur Golf Rankings. She recently prevailed at the 2017 Annika Invitational Europe after birdieing the final hole to force a dramatic play-off conclusion.
Engstrom, at 15, became the youngest winner of the Ladies’ British Open Amateur Championship in 2016. She is currently ranked sixth in the World Amateur Golf Rankings and competed for Europe in the 2017 Junior Solheim Cup alongside Linner.
“Amanda and Julia have played well in recent months,” Sorenstam said of the two teenagers.
“I am thrilled that they will have the opportunity to travel to Abu Dhabi to compete in this wonderful LET [Ladies European Tour] event, which I was delighted to help launch last year.”
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Beth Allen and Cheyenne Woods to headline Fatima bint Mubarak Ladies Open
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Linner makes her first appearance in Abu Dhabi and said she hopes to to prove Sorenstam right for handing her a wild card.
“I hope I can repay her faith in me and deliver for all those who come along to this year’s tournament, particularly my family, and encourage more people to get involved,” she said.
Engstrom added: “It was such an incredible surprise when I heard that Annika had picked me to be part of this year’s FBMLO.
“I come from a golfing family – and my family’s support has always been extremely important. My father has a four handicap and my mother also plays, so that's whom [sic] I get my love of the game from and my competitive attitude.”
The event has drawn 126 players vying for a total prize purse of US$550,000 (just over Dh2 million).
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It's Monty Python's Crashing Rocket Circus
To the theme tune of the famous zany British comedy TV show, SpaceX has shown exactly what can go wrong when you try to land a rocket.
The two minute video posted on YouTube is a compilation of crashes and explosion as the company, created by billionaire Elon Musk, refined the technique of reusable space flight.
SpaceX is able to land its rockets on land once they have completed the first stage of their mission, and is able to resuse them multiple times - a first for space flight.
But as the video, How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster, demonstrates, it was a case if you fail, try and try again.
Scores in brief:
- New Medical Centre 129-5 in 17 overs bt Zayed Cricket Academy 125-6 in 20 overs.
- William Hare Abu Dhabi Gymkhana 188-8 in 20 overs bt One Stop Tourism 184-8 in 20 overs
- Alubond Tigers 138-7 in 20 overs bt United Bank Limited 132-7 in 20 overs
- Multiplex 142-6 in 17 overs bt Xconcepts Automobili 140 all out in 20 overs
The specs
Price, base: Dh228,000 / Dh232,000 (est)
Engine: 5.7-litre Hemi V8
Transmission: Eight-speed automatic
Power: 395hp @ 5,600rpm
Torque: 552Nm
Fuel economy, combined: 12.5L / 100km
Earth under attack: Cosmic impacts throughout history
- 4.5 billion years ago: Mars-sized object smashes into the newly-formed Earth, creating debris that coalesces to form the Moon
- 66 million years ago: 10km-wide asteroid crashes into the Gulf of Mexico, wiping out over 70 per cent of living species – including the dinosaurs.
- 50,000 years ago: 50m-wide iron meteor crashes in Arizona with the violence of 10 megatonne hydrogen bomb, creating the famous 1.2km-wide Barringer Crater
- 1490: Meteor storm over Shansi Province, north-east China when large stones “fell like rain”, reportedly leading to thousands of deaths.
- 1908: 100-metre meteor from the Taurid Complex explodes near the Tunguska river in Siberia with the force of 1,000 Hiroshima-type bombs, devastating 2,000 square kilometres of forest.
- 1998: Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 breaks apart and crashes into Jupiter in series of impacts that would have annihilated life on Earth.
-2013: 10,000-tonne meteor burns up over the southern Urals region of Russia, releasing a pressure blast and flash that left over 1600 people injured.
The specs: 2017 GMC Sierra 1500 Denali
Price, base / as tested Dh207,846 / Dh220,000
Engine 6.2L V8
Transmission Eight-speed automatic
Power 420hp @ 5,600rpm
Torque 624Nm @ 4,100rpm
Fuel economy, combined 13.5L / 100km
