Mercuries Life Insurance has been a generous supporter on the Taiwan PGA (Men’s) Tour and hosted the Mercuries Taiwan Masters for the past 28 years. This week, it marks the first time the company takes the title rights in a TLPGA Tour event.

 

Fans can look forward to a treat of “battle of generations” while tour veterans such as Huang Bie-Shyun (黃璧洵), Huang Yueh-Chyn (黃玥珡), Huang Hui-Fan (黃慧芳), and Tseng Hsiu Feng (曾秀鳳) head out facing current 2015 TLPGA Tour Money Leader Kuo Ai-Chen (郭艾榛), number 4 Chen Meng-Chu (陳孟竺), number 6 Babe Liu (劉依貞), number 7 Huang Hsien-Wen (黃賢雯), number 9 Yeh Hsin-Ning (葉欣寧), number 10 Shih Huei-Ju (石惠如), as well as more up and coming youngsters.

 

The TLPGA Heritage Series applies the pro-junior system, in which the TLPGA pros are grouped with amateurs and junior golfers, creating an easy interaction for the passing of “heritage” between the experienced and the young prospects, for which the series of events are named. The concept is also one of the main focuses for the TLPGA to nurture future sport leaders.

 

Besides Group Professionals, Group Amateurs of Women’s 16-25, Boys’/Girls’ 12-16, and Juniors’ 8-12 will also be in action with first teeing group starts at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning.

 

After more than a decade of endeavor, the TLPGA Tour gained worldwide recognition by players and sponsors and was invited by the Women's World Golf Rankings (WWGR) to become one of its nine acknowledged member tours in 2014.

 

“Our short-term goal will be a 24-event Tour calendar,” claimed Liu Yi-Chen (劉依貞). “Thanks to the tremendous effort for all the partners and sponsors who love the sport as much as we do and strive for the development of women’s golf in Taiwan, this year, we’re happy to announce that we have scheduled 16 TLPGA tournaments and 4 more travelling to other countries, setting the biggest total purse we’ve ever had in TLPGA Tour history.” The total purse of the 2015 Tour sets to raise to a record NT$180 million.