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Trio of Blue Devils to Tee Off on Symetra Tour This Week
3/17/2021 11:54:00 AM | Women's Golf
DURHAM – The Symetra Tour will kick off its 2021 campaign this week as the "Road to the LPGA" will convene on Longbow Golf Club for the Carlisle Arizona Women's Golf Classic March 18-21 in Mesa, Ariz. Three Blue Devils will compete this week with Laetitia Beck, Ana Belac and Sandy Choi seeing action.
The 132-player field will vie for a total purse of $200,000 and will compete over 72-holes of stroke play. The tournament will feature a cut to the low 60 golfers and ties after 36 holes. The winner will receive $30,000.
Action gets underway at 7:00 a.m., local time all four days with play starting off No. 1 and No. 10 tees for the first two rounds and No. 1 tee for the third and final rounds.
Belac, a 2020 Blue Devil graduate, received her 2021 LPGA Tour card after leading the 2020 Symetra Tour money list with $49,081 earnings and winning Symetra Tour Player of the Year accolades. She will be competing on both the Symetra Tour and LPGA in 2021.
A 2014 Duke graduate, Beck has been competing on the LPGA and Symetra Tour over the last seven years. After taking the 2020 season off due to COVID-19, Choi returns to professional golf. She is a 2017 Blue Devil graduate.
A total of 33 countries are represented this week at the Carlisle Arizona Women's Golf Classic, led by the United States with 62 players, followed by the Republic of Korea with eight and both Sweden and Canada with seven competitors each.
Belac will tee off at 8:50 a.m., off hole No. 10 on Thursday, while Beck will start at 12:46 p.m., off hole No. 1 and Choi at 1:19 p.m., on No. 10.
The Symetra Tour annually awards LPGA Tour membership to the top players on the Race for the Card money list at the end of the season and will usher in the next graduating class at the conclusion of the 2021 season.
From 1999-2002, the official qualifying tour of the LPGA handed out three cards. Then from 2003-2007, that number increased to five before 10 were distributed starting in 2008. Since the inaugural year, a total of 162 players have graduated to the big stage.
The Symetra Tour is the official qualifying tour of the LPGA Tour and enters its 41st competitive season in 2021. With the support of entitlement partner Symetra, the Tour's mission is to prepare the world's best young women professional golfers for a successful career on the LPGA Tour. Since Symetra's inaugural sponsorship year in 2012, the Symetra Tour has grown from 16 tournaments and $1.7 million in prize money to $4.0 million in prize money awarded in 2019 and 2021.
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The 132-player field will vie for a total purse of $200,000 and will compete over 72-holes of stroke play. The tournament will feature a cut to the low 60 golfers and ties after 36 holes. The winner will receive $30,000.
Action gets underway at 7:00 a.m., local time all four days with play starting off No. 1 and No. 10 tees for the first two rounds and No. 1 tee for the third and final rounds.
Belac, a 2020 Blue Devil graduate, received her 2021 LPGA Tour card after leading the 2020 Symetra Tour money list with $49,081 earnings and winning Symetra Tour Player of the Year accolades. She will be competing on both the Symetra Tour and LPGA in 2021.
A 2014 Duke graduate, Beck has been competing on the LPGA and Symetra Tour over the last seven years. After taking the 2020 season off due to COVID-19, Choi returns to professional golf. She is a 2017 Blue Devil graduate.
A total of 33 countries are represented this week at the Carlisle Arizona Women's Golf Classic, led by the United States with 62 players, followed by the Republic of Korea with eight and both Sweden and Canada with seven competitors each.
Belac will tee off at 8:50 a.m., off hole No. 10 on Thursday, while Beck will start at 12:46 p.m., off hole No. 1 and Choi at 1:19 p.m., on No. 10.
The Symetra Tour annually awards LPGA Tour membership to the top players on the Race for the Card money list at the end of the season and will usher in the next graduating class at the conclusion of the 2021 season.
From 1999-2002, the official qualifying tour of the LPGA handed out three cards. Then from 2003-2007, that number increased to five before 10 were distributed starting in 2008. Since the inaugural year, a total of 162 players have graduated to the big stage.
The Symetra Tour is the official qualifying tour of the LPGA Tour and enters its 41st competitive season in 2021. With the support of entitlement partner Symetra, the Tour's mission is to prepare the world's best young women professional golfers for a successful career on the LPGA Tour. Since Symetra's inaugural sponsorship year in 2012, the Symetra Tour has grown from 16 tournaments and $1.7 million in prize money to $4.0 million in prize money awarded in 2019 and 2021.
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