Circling Raven Championship • Epson 'Road to the LPGA' Tour Spotlight • Jenny Bae

Circling Raven Championship • Epson ‘Road to the LPGA’ Tour Player Spotlight

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

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 Jenny Bae.

• Bae is a native of Suwanee, Ga.

• Competed collegiately at the University of Georgia where she was a three-time All-American selection

• Bae was the 2021 Georgia Women’s Amateur Champion and the 2021 Georgia Women’s Open Champion

• She won two collegiate events while representing the University of Georgia

• Winner of the 2023 Juli Inskter Award (highest ranked Women’s DI golfer in their final year of eligibility)

• Was the runner-up at the 2023 Augusta National Women’s Amateur, losing in a playoff to Rose Zhang

• First back-to-back champion on the Epson Tour in 2023. Winning the Hartford HealthCare Women’s Championship and Twin Bridges Championship

• Won both of her events in a playoff (7 holes and 5 holes)