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Circling Raven Championship • Epson 'Road to the LPGA' Tour Spotlight: Jillian Hollis

| August 2, 2023 1:22 AM

Circling Raven Golf Club in Worley will host the third 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. 21-27, and the field of 132 competitors from around the globe will compete for $225,000 in prize money during the tournament, Aug. 25-27.

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 — 23 players who competed in the 2022 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 Jillian Hollis.

• Hollis is a native of Rocky River, Ohio.

• Made her professional debut at the 2018 U.S. Women’s Open.

• Spent three years at the University of Georgia and was a three-time All-American.

• Two-time All-SEC Second Team selection before being named to the First Team in 2018.

• Competed as an amateur in the 2014 Canadian Pacific Women’s Open, as well as the 2016 and 2018 Marathon Classic on the LPGA Tour.

• Lost in a sudden-death playoff in her Epson Tour debut at the 2018 Forsyth Classic

• Won her first Epson Tour title at the 2019 IOA Championship presented by Morongo Casino Resort & Spa and followed it up later that year winning the Forsyth Classic en route to finishing in the top ten on the money list in 2019 earning her LPGA Tour Card for 2020.

• Returning to the Epson Tour in 2022, Hollis claimed victory at the Circling Raven Championship and looks to defend her title in 2023.