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Circling Raven Championship • Epson 'Road to the LPGA' Player Spotlight • Robyn Choi

| July 26, 2023 1:20 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 Robyn Choi.

• Choi is a native of Gold Coast, Australia

• Finished T45 at the inaugural LPGA Q-Series to earn Priority List Category 14 status for the 2019 LPGA Tour season

• Attended the University of Colorado where she led the team with five top-five finishes, six top-10 finishes and 13 sub-par rounds for the 2017-2018 season

• While playing collegiately for Colorado she was a 2016-17 WGCA All-American Scholar, and in 2017-2018 she was a Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention, first-team All-Pac-12, honorable mention WGCA All-America, and the team's Co-MVP

• Finished tied for 6th at the 2020 Vic Open on the LPGA Tour after finishing with 6 under par total

• Has competed primarily on the Epson Tour since 2019 and has 12 career top 10 finishes on the Epson Tour with her best finish being a runner-up at the 2022 Circling Raven Championship