Windsor Golf Club will host a Symetra Tour women’s professional golf tournament in April.
The tournament, listed on the Symetra Tour website as the Northern California Classic, will be held April 7-9 and is one of two new events on the LPGA’s official qualifying tour — the other being Indiana’s Donald Ross Centenial Classic in July.
The LPGA, which features players from the United States and more than 25 countries around the world, has not played in Northern California since 2001.
The event, details of which will be announced next week, will be a full-field tournament featuring rising stars in women’s golf.
The Symetra Tour will have a true “West Coast Swing” this year for the first time since 2001 with tournaments at Beaumont, Calif., and Mesa, Ariz., in the weeks leading up to the Windsor tournament.
The Symetra Tour graduates 10 players to the LPGA each season.
Prominent graduates include Inbee Park, Lorena Ochoa, Christina Kim, Mo Martin, Gerina Piller and Nelly Korda. Other players who have recently come through the Symetra Tour include Cheyenne Woods, Brooke Henderson, Jaye Marie Green, Annie Park and Madelene Sagstrom. Sagstrom, from Sweden, was the Symetra Tour’s leading money winner in 2016 with $167,064 in total prize money.
The tour will comprise 21 tournaments in 13 states this season, starting March 10-12 with the Florida’s Natural Charity Classic in Winter Haven.
Full details about the Windsor tournament, fan information and a pro-am event will be revealed at an industry luncheon next Wednesday at the club.
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