Circling Raven Championship • Epson ‘Road to the LPGA’ Tour Player Spotlight • Gigi Stoll
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Circling Raven Championship • Epson ‘Road to the LPGA’ Tour Player Spotlight
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 100-plus 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 Gigi Stoll.
• Stoll is a native of Beaverton, Ore.
• Competed collegiately at the University of Arizona where she was a member of the team that was crowned NCAA women’s Division I national champions in 2018
• Won the Oregon Women’s Amateur in 2014, 2015, and 2017
• Was named the PNGA Women’s Player of the Year in 2014, 2015 and 2017, and PNGA Junior Girls’ Player of the Year in 2013
• Played as a rookie on the Epson Tour in 2019
• Has recorded nine career top-10 finishes on her career on the Epson Tour
• Successfully Monday qualified for the 2023 Lotte Championship on the LPGA Tour
• Claimed her first victory on the Epson Tour earlier this year at the Casino Del Sol Golf Classic and also added a solo second-place finish at the Champions Fore Change Invitational