Circling Raven Championship: Symetra Spotlight: Lilia Vu

Circling Raven Golf Club in Worley will host the inaugural Circling Raven Championship later this month.

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 Lilia Vu.

• Vu is a native of Fountain Valley, Calif.

• Helped lead Team USA to victory at the 2018 Curtis Cup, earning four points

• Member of the 2018 Arnold Palmer Cup and USA World Amateur Teams

• As a UCLA Bruin, was awarded 2018 PING WGCA Player of the Year, Pac-12 Conference Golfer of the Year and Honda Award finalist, also three-time WGCA First Team All-American and All-Pac 12 performer

• Ranked first on the all-time UCLA career victory list with eight individual titles

• Finished T27 at the inaugural LPGA Q-Series to earn Priority List Category 14 status for the 2019 season

• Made one cut in nine starts on the LPGA Tour in 2019

• Made three cuts in seven starts on the Symetra Tour in 2020 with a season-best finish of T29 at the Four Winds Invitational

• Claimed first professional win at the 2021 Garden City Charity Classic