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Circling Raven Championship • Epson 'Road to the LPGA' Player Spotlight • Grace Kim

| July 27, 2022 1:26 AM

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

The Epson “Road to the LPGA” Tour event is scheduled to be held annually at Circling Raven through 2023. This year, it will take place the week of Aug. 22-28, and the field of 100-plus competitors from around the globe will compete for $200,000 in prize money during the tournament, Aug. 26-28.

Tickets are available at cdacasino.com.

Top performers during the Epson Tour (formerly Symetra Tour) season earn their LPGA Tour memberships at season’s end — eight players who competed in the 2021 Circling Raven Championship — earned their ticket to the LPGA this year. The tournament showcases 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 Grace Kim.

• Kim, is a native of Sydney, Australia.

• Captured a seven-stroke victory at the 2021 Australian Women’s Amateur.

• Two-time winner on the Women’s All Pro Tour (WAPT) in 2021 as an amateur.

• Two-time winner of the New South Wales Women’s Amateur Championship (2020, 2021).

• Competed in the 2021 Augusta National Women’s Amateur, becoming the second Australian to be invited to the prestigious championship.

• Turned professional and is competing as a rookie on the Epson Tour in 2022 and has already claimed her first career victory coming at the 2022 IOA Golf Classic presented by LPT Realty.