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Circling Raven Championship • Symetra Spotlight • Ruixin Liu

| August 4, 2021 1:25 AM

Circling Raven Golf Club in Worley will host the inaugural Circling Raven Championship in August.

The Symetra “Road to the LPGA” Tour event, scheduled to be held annually at Circling Raven through 2023, will take place the week of Aug. 23-29, and the field of 156 competitors will compete for $200,000 in prize money during the tournament, Aug. 27-29.

Tickets are available at cdacasino.com.

Top performers during the Symetra Tour season earn their LPGA Tour memberships at season’s end, and the Circling Raven Championship will showcase many of the world’s finest golfers striving to reach that pinnacle of women’s professional golf.

The Press will feature one of these players each week leading up to the tournament.

This week's player is Ruixin Liu.

• Liu is a native of Shenzen, People’s Republic of China 

• Finished T67 at 2016 LPGA final Qualifying Tournament to first earn Symetra Tour status 

• Three-time Symetra Tour champion in 2018 to finish at No. 1 one in the Race for the Card 

• 2018 Symetra Tour graduate to first earn LPGA Tour membership as 2019 LPGA Tour rookie 

• Sixth player in Symetra Tour history to surpass $100,000 in single season earnings ($124,839) 

• Made six cross cuts across 20 starts as a 2019 LPGA rookie with a season best finish T 11 at Marathon Classic presented by Dana 

• Won the 2020 FireKeepers Casino Hotel Championship on the Symetra Tour

• Has won twice on the Symetra Tour during the 2021 season, including wins at the Carlisle Arizona Women’s Golf Classic and the Casino Del Sol Golf Classic