Helsingborg, Sweden, June 1: Diksha Dagar, who finally found some form after a long gap will be looking to build on last week’s result as she gets set for Helsingborg Open at Allerum Golf Club. This is the first of two weeks action in Sweden.
Along with Diksha, there will be four other Indians, 2022 Hero Women’s Indian Open runner-up Amandeep Drall, Vani Kapoor, Seher Atwal and Tvesa Malik. It has been a modest season for most of the Indian girls, even though it is an Indian, Aditi Ashok, who is leading the LET’s Race to Costa Del Sol. Aditi has been dividing her time between LET and the LPGA across the Pacific. Aditi, who has won once, finished second once and third once in four LET starts in 2023, is playing on the LPGA this week. This year she has also been in Top-5 in LPGA twice.
Diksha, one of the only two Indians to have won on the LET, won in 2019 and since then has been searching for a second win though she was part of the winning team at the Aramco Series London couple of years back. Diksha was tied sixth, after being second after 36 holes at the Belgian Ladies Open last week.
There is a lot of churn expected this week as six of the Top-10 are not taking part this week, so the winner this week can hope to move up the Order of Merit well. This year’s star performers in the field in Helsingborg are Ana Pelaez Trivino, Klara Davidson Spilkova and Chiara Noja.
The Helsingborg is returning for the first time since 2015 and taking place at Allerum Golf Club with 126 players from 28 nations.
Pelaez currently sits third in the Race to Costa Del Sol and will be feeling fresh after taking a week off at the Belgian Ladies Open. The same can also be said for Davidson Spilkova, who sits fourth in the standings and will be teeing up at Allerum following a runner-up finish at the Aramco Team Series – Florida Individual event.
Then there’s 17-year-old Noja, who like Spilkova finished second in her most recent event in Belgium to jump to fifth. All three will be expecting to contend again this week as they chase down Aditi Ashok.
Eight years ago, when the Helsingborg Open was last held, the winner was Nicole Broch Estrup and she is back this week.
