Circling Raven Championship • Symetra Spotlight: Frida Kinhult

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 Frida Kinhult.

• Kinhult is a native of Fiskebackskil, Sweden

• Two-time winner of the Spanish Ladies Amateur Championship

• Spent seven weeks at No. 1 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings

• Member of victorious Team Europe for the 2019 Vagliano Trophy

• Three-time medalist in her year and a half at Florida State University

• Member of the victorious International Team at 2019 Arnold Palmer Cup

• 2019 Women’s Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) First Team All-American

• Set the Seminoles single-season scoring average record of 70.66 as a freshman

• Two-time winner of the European Ladies Team Championship with Team Sweden

• Named the 2019 ACC and WGCA Freshman of the Year, as well as All-ACC selection

• Shared 2019 ACC Player of the Year honors with now LPGA member Jennifer Kupcho

• Her father Mikael is a golf teaching pro and brother Marcus is a European Tour member

• Finished T67 at 2019 LPGA Q-Series to first earn Symetra Tour membership as a 2020 rookie

• Won the 2020 Symetra Tour Championship to finish 4th on the Race for the Card and earned 2021 LPGA Tour membership