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The European Tour and Ladies European Tour have combined to make history as they both stage events at the Royal Golf Dar Es Salam this week in Morocco. The men will tee off on the Red Course in the Trophee Hassan II - live on Sky Sports 4 HD from 11.30am on Thursday - while over on the Blue Course, the women will be competing in the Lalla Meryem Cup.For the first time, the two organisations are running concurrent events in a bid to encourage participation and attract fans to the sport and organisers have said this will not be a one-off. With less than 100 days to go until golf returns to the Olympics for the first time in 112 years, the two Tour chief executives are hopeful this can act as a show-piece for Rio. Past European Solheim Cup team members Laura Davies (left) and Melissa Reid will be heading up the female field in Morocco Its terrific to be here alongside the LET to stage the mens and womens tournaments just three months prior to the Olympics, Keith Pelley, the European Tour chief executive, said.There are many Olympic hopefuls competing in both tournaments, so its a great opportunity to showcase the strength of the mens and the womens games. Ladies European Tour CEO Ivan Khodabakhsh looks ahead to the Lalla Meryem Cup where women and men from the European Tour are playing at the same time on di I hope its the start of an increased collaboration to come between the two Tours. We can grow and get stronger together.The inclusion of golf in the Olympics has been met with varying degrees of support and while the men and women will play in different weeks in Brazil, there is a positivity about having events that run at the same time. Hopefully in the future we will have more events like this one, and maybe one day we might have a mixed event because it would be fun, Alexander Levy, a two-time winner on the European Tour, told the organisation. I think its pretty special to have both events in the same week at the same club, and Im really grateful to the people who had this amazing idea. Gwladys Nocera, defending champion The tours are hopeful that the innovation will allow golf to follow other successful concurrent male and female tours such as tennis. We need to look beyond the borders of golf and in other sports we can see the best practices, Ivan Khodabakhsh, of the Ladies European Tour, said. We can see in tennis and in other sports, actually having both genders side by side in a great event competing gives so much more colour, provides so much more for the fans and hopefully we can gain new fans coming to the sport.Another event has been confirmed to combine the two tours when the inaugural European Championships are held at Gleneagles in 2018. May is National Golf Month. SportsWomen visited a club in Cheshire which launched a campaign to introduce 100 girls to the game by 2020 Watch live coverage of the Trophee Hassan II on Sky Sports 4 HD on Thursday (11.30am to 1.30pm and 3.30pm to 6.30pm). Also See: Relive Rorys Wells Fargo win Cink takes break to assist wife Stuard claims Louisiana title Li storms through for home win Jarred Vanderbilt Jersey . LOUIS -- Lance Lynn was one of the more enthusiastic participants as the St. Cheap Nuggets Jerseys . 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Daniel Ricciardo applauded Red Bulls recent turnaround after recording an awesome podium alongside teammate Max Verstappen at the German Grand Prix.Ricciardo and Verstappen jumped polesitter Nico Rosberg off the line, and the trio battled for the final two spots on the podium behind Lewis Hamilton for the rest of the race. Ricciardo was beaten by Verstappen into Turn 1 but managed to jump ahead of his teammate at his third pit stop, with the Australian consolidating second position with strong pace in the closing stint.Speaking on the podium after the win, Ricciardo said: Thanks to Red Bull Racing, I think its the first double podium for us in over a year, so its awesome to close out the first part of the season.Ricciardo and Verstappen were on split strategies through the race, with the Dutch teenager letting his teammate by at a crucial part of the race when both men were trying to keep Rosberg in range. Ricciardo says Red Bulls pace on the super-soft at the end was on par with Mercedes.?We wanted to finish the first part of the season on a high, after Fridays performance we thought we would probbably be more competitive in the race than we were in Budapest.dddddddddddd We obviously had a little sniff at the start of the race. We knew we had something on so it was about making the most of it, as always, but it was obviously nice motivation to make the most of it.The start initially felt quite good. Nicos was obviously quite poor so we got past him and then I covered the inside in Turn 1 but then I didnt realise on the outside, it was very close but we kept it on track. To my disappointed he pulled off the move at Turn 1. Keeping Nico back there on the first lap, it was a good little battle there for a few corners and that was quite important for my race to keep him behind and focus on what I needed to do.I would say the first two stints, super-soft, soft, we were in the race, but not really enough to make a massive jump or the top two. But once we put the super-softs on for the final two stints the car came alive, thats where in the end we got the second place. ' ' '