WITH Laura Davies taking the week off, South African golfer
Lee-Anne Pace has the opportunity to take the No1 spot on the
Ladies'
European
Tour money-list this week at the
inaugural Sanya Open in China.
Pace, ranked second with three wins this season, is bidding
to become the first South African in the European Tour's 32-year
history to win the money-list.
Pace has posted seven top 10 finishes, including three wins,
on the tour this season and is just ?4038 (R38776) behind
first-placed Davies. The first prize this week is ?30000 (R288088).
The contest to be crowned Europe's No1 player is about to
heat up with the top three players, Davies, Pace and Melissa Reid,
all travelling to Asia over the next month.
Pace climbed to a career high of first on the money-list
following the Aberdeen Scottish Open victory earlier in the season,
but was overtaken by Davies, who claimed her fourth win of the
season at the Open de Espana Femenino.
Pace, 29, from Mossel Bay, is determined to return to the
head of affairs over the next fortnight before Davies resumes her
challenge at the Korean Ladies Masters. She has not taken much of a
break, having breezed through the first stage of the LPGA's
qualifying school in late September.
She is playing in the next four events in Asia before
weighing her chances of winning the money-list. She will then
decide whether to travel to the US LPGA's final qualifying event.
If Pace thinks she has a chance to be crowned Europe's No1,
she will play at the season-ending Omega Dubai Ladies Masters.
