Circling Raven Championship • Epson “Road to the LPGA” Tour Player Spotlight • Lucy Li
Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 2 years, 6 months AGO
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 Lucy Li.
• Li is a native of Redwood Shores, Calif.
• She currently holds records as the youngest qualifier for the U.S. Women's Amateur and the U.S. Women's Open
• At the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Li teamed with Akshay Bhatia to win the mixed team silver medal
• Li was a winning member of the Junior Ryder Cup in 2016 and 2018, the Junior Solheim Cup in 2017 and 2019, as well as a member of the winning Curtis Cup team in 2018
• She won the 2016 Junior PGA Championship, the 2017 PING Invitational, and 2017 AJGA Rolex Tournament of Champions
• Competed as a rookie on the Epson Tour in 2020 after having advanced to the 2nd stage of LPGA qualifying in the fall of 2019
• Since beginning her professional career on the Epson Tour in 2020 she has recorded nine career top 10 finishes, including picking up her first career victory at the 2022 Carolina Golf Classic