The TLPGA Tour will head back home to the Tong Hwa Golf & Country Club in Taipei, Taiwan on May 13 for the 2015 Yeangder TLPGA Open. The tournament will be contested over 54-hole stroke play for a purse of NT$3 million. Last year’s winner, Australian Tamie Durdin will come back to defend her title.

The 38-year-old from Adelaide joined the professional tour in 2000. She started building her resume in Australia and moved to compete on the Japan LPGA Tour since 2005, earning two titles along the road. The victory at the 2014 Yeangder TLPGA Open was just her first tournament on the TLPGA Tour and it gave her a third career win.

Yeang Der Group initiated its first invitational TLPGA event in 2012, and starting in 2013, the first edition of the Yeangder TLPGA Open was held, where eventually Phoebe Yao (姚宣榆) of Taiwan was crowned. Durdin, in 2014, outlasted the 2012 invitational edition winner, Hsieh Yu-Ling (謝瑀玲) and LPGA Symetra Tour titlist Chien Pei-Yun (錢珮芸) on the very last hole to clinch the title.

Durdin, however, will have 17 of the top 20 on the TLPGA Money List and all 12 members who were represented by the TLPGA for the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic last week in her way if she were to repeat the success. Among the top favorites are Hsieh and the recent Chung Cheng Heritage Tour winner Chen Meng Chu (陳孟竺), who both made the cut to the weekend last week in the U.S., as well as 2013 runner-up Kuo Ai Chen (郭艾榛), who triumphed in the Taifong Ladies Open earlier this year and is currently ranked the TLPGA No.1.

Also in the hunt for the championship and the NT$600,000 winner check this week are TLPGA No.2 Lin Tzu-Chi (林子麒), No.3 Chien, No.6 Babe Liu (劉依貞), and No.7 Yeh Hsin-Ning (葉欣寧).

The venue of the2015 Yeangder TLPGA Open, the Tong Hwa Golf & Country Club, is 6,410 yards long and set to test the women on and around the greens. Large water and sand hazards will be spotted around the broad, up-and-down layout that will certainly add to the entertainment effect for the spectators.