Circling Raven Championship • Epson 'Road to the LPGA' Player Spotlight • Sophie Hausmann

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

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 Sophie Hausmann.

• Hausmann is a native of Germany

• Competed as a rookie on the Epson Tour in 2020 after graduating from the University of Idaho

• While competing collegiately for the Vandals she captured back-to-back Big Sky conference Women’s Golfer of the Year as a junior and senior

• As junior she won the individual title at the Big Sky Championships with a tournament-record 206 (10-under)

• In 2016 she won the German Ladies Amateur Championship

Became a first-time winner on the Epson Tour in March of 2021 when she won the IOA Championship presented by Morongo Casino Resort & Spa

• Has recorded four top-10 finishes so far during the 2022 Epson Tour season