The Taiwan LPGA Tour heads back to Taipei for the 2014 CTBC Ladies Open presented by the CTBC Bank and the CTBC Charity Foundation.

In an inaugural conjunction with the China Golf Association and the China LPGA, the Orient Golf & Country Club will play host to 92 LPGA and CLPGA professional players and 15 promising amateurs from Australia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, South Africa, Thailand, China, who will compete over three days, 54 holes for a chance at the NT$1 million first-place check and be the third to etch their name on the tournament’s trophy.

It also marks the first CTBC Ladies Open to award official world ranking points. The 2014 CTBC Ladies Open is the third TLPGA event giving out official WWGR (Women's World Golf Rankings) points after the TLPGA was finally included in the computer ranking system on Jul 22.

Hometown ladies, TLPGA No.1 on the money list Chien Pei-Yun (錢珮芸), No.4 Hsieh Yu Ling (謝瑀玲), No.6 Shih Huei-Ju (石惠如), and Chen Meng-Chu (陳孟竺), all have been crowned at least one TLPGA victory this season, along with TLPGA and CLPGA No.2 Babe Liu (劉依貞) who has recorded two CLPGA wins this season, will lead a squad of 44 pros and 10 amateurs in a home title defense.

Four CTBC Bank players are also slated to be in the field this week, including Hsu Wei-Ling (徐薇淩), currently No.5 on the Race for the Card money list of the Symetra Tour, Hsieh Yu-Ling, Yeh Hsin-Ning (葉欣寧), and Lin Tzu-Chi (林子麒), to seek their first CLPGA honor.

Headlining the army from China is the CLPGA No.1 Pan Yanhong (潘艷紅); she and compatriots Li Jiayun (黎佳韵), Yan Panpan (閻盼盼), and Tian Hong (田紅) will also have to contend with the likes of Korea’s up and coming star, Jang So-Young (張素榮), and Thailand’s Ajira Nualraksa, both CLPGA titlists.

The CTBC Ladies Open will be played September 18-20 and will be featured on Videoland Sports Channel on Friday and the final Saturday. Both will air from 1-4 p.m. local time.

Players will tee it up beginning at 6:30 a.m. in the morning on the 1st and 10th. On Hole 16, a hole-in-one prize of a brand new Audi A6 2.0 TFSI worthy of NT$2.42 million will be on offer these three days.