Roberta Liti is ready to face the thirteenth seasonal race on the Epson Tour. The second US women’s circuit restarts from the Firekeepers Casino Hotel Championship, scheduled from 29 to 31 July at the Battle Creek Country Club, Michigan.
Field of level in the USA, with the Tuscan proette, the only blue in the race, who will face opponents such as the American Lucy Li, number one in the order of merit of the circuit and already winner of two events this year: the Carolina Golf Classic and the Twin Bridges Championship.
Roberta Liti, Epson Tour
In addition to the leader, there will be seven other of the top ten athletes on the ‘money list’: Linnea Strom (second), Grace Kim (third), Alexa Pano (fourth), Kum-Kang Park (fifth), Gina Kim (sixth), Dottie Ardina (eighth) and Sophie Hausmann (tenth).
In 2021, the Mexican Fernanda Lira won. The event will offer a total prize pool of $ 200,000. The Symetra Tour, formerly known as the LPGA Futures Tour or Duramed Futures Tour, is the official development and qualification tour of the LPGA Tour, open to both professional and amateur players.
The competition was founded in Florida in 1981 under the name of Tampa Bay Mini Tour. It officially became known as the Futures Golf Tour in 1983 and from 1999 it was introduced as an official development tour of the LPGA Tour (the largest US circuit in the women’s golf).
Grace Park, Marilyn Lovander and Audra Burks were the first players to automatically qualify for the LPGA Tour by finishing first, second and third on the Futures Golf Tour Money List respectively. The minimum age to participate was lowered to 17 years before the 2006 season began.
On July 18, 2007, the Ladies Professional Golf Association announced that it had acquired the Futures Tour, which had previously been a licensee of the same, with immediate effect. . Between the 2006 and 2010 seasons Duramed, a pharmaceutical company, was the official sponsor of the tour.
From the 2012 season, the US insurance company Symetra was chosen as the new official sponsor and the circuit was subsequently renamed as Symetra Tour. Players from all over the world can take part in the Symetra Tour. Among the best known golfers who participated in the competition are Laura Davies, Meaghan Francella, Cristie Kerr, Christina Kim, Mo Martin, Lorena Ochoa, Grace Park, Stacy Prammanasudh, Sherri Steinhauer, and Karrie Webb.
