Circling Raven Championship • Epson 'Road to the LPGA' Player Spotlight • Alexa Pano

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 Alexa Pano.

• Pano is a native of Westborough, Mass., but resides in Lake Worth, Fla.

• Runner-up at the 2018 U.S. Girls Junior Championship

• Two-time winner of the Dustin Johnson World Junior Golf Championship

• Competed at the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur in April of 2019

• Two-time winner of her respective division at the annual Drive, Chip & Putt Championship

• Competing as rookie on the Epson Tour in 2022 after turning professional in the spring

• Recorded a career-best finish of solo second place at the 2022 Garden City Charity Classic

• Followed that up with another solo second-place finish at the 2022 Carolina Golf Classic after being defeated on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff