EPSON TOUR CLOSES OUT MICHIGAN SWING AT THE ISLAND RESORT CHAMPIONSHIP
Harris, MI. – The 156-player field for the 11th Island Resort Championship – presented by Delta County Area Chamber of Commerce has been finalized by the Epson Tour. The “Road to the LPGA” concludes its two-week swing in the Great Lake State from June 24-26 at Sweetgrass Golf Club in Harris, Michigan.
Individuals will compete in a 54-hole stroke-play format for $212,500 and a winner’s share of $31,875. A cut will be made to the top-60 and ties after 36 holes. Tournament admission is $10 total for access to all three days of competitions.
“The Island Resort Championship has set a standard for hosting the Epson Tour that continually raises the bar in hospitality, the quality of the venue, and prize money,” said Epson Tour Chief Business Officer, Mike Nichols. “To be able to bring our athletes to a golf course recently ranked #1 in Michigan by its golf course peers is truly a treat.”
Six of the top-10 players in the Ascensus Race for the Card will compete for this week’s title, including 2022 champions Lucy Li, Grace Kim, Kum-Kang Park and Linnea Strom. The Epson Tour’s most recent champion, Kiira Riihijarvi, will also compete in Harris, Michigan, following her win at last week’s Ann Arbor’s Road to the LPGA powered by the A2 Sports Commission.
Sweetgrass Golf Club has been hosting an Epson Tour event annually since 2011 with the exception of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Hosting the Island Resort Championship at Sweetgrass is an important part of our golf calendar each year,” said Tournament Chair, Tony Mancilla. “It allows us to promote our golf property on a larger scale and we meet with our business partners annually at the event through the pro-ams. Fewer than 250 courses in the United States host a professional tour. The Epson Tour allows us to promote our property through the golf media directly.”
Four past Island Resort Championship winners will compete for the 2022 title, including Kim Kaufman
(2013), Daniela Holmqvist (2015) and Sherman Santiwiwatthanaphong (2016). Daniela Iacobelli, the 2019 champion who gushes about this event, will also compete this week.
“I love going up to Sweetgrass,” said Iacobelli. “I love the people there, I love the course, and I’m personally just excited to get back and keep continuing those friendships. I haven’t even thought about the golf part yet, I think that will happen Friday morning.”
ABOUT EPSON TOUR
The Epson Tour (formerly the Symetra Tour) is the official qualifying tour of the LPGA Tour and enters its 42nd competitive season in 2022. With the support of entitlement partner Seiko Epson Corporation, the Tour’s mission is to prepare the world’s best female professional golfers for a successful career on the LPGA Tour. In the last decade, the Epson Tour has grown from 15 tournaments and $1.6 million in prize money to $4.41 million awarded across 20+ events in 2022. With more than 600 graduates and alumnae moving on to the LPGA Tour, former Epson Tour players have won 459 LPGA titles.
Follow the Epson Tour at www.epsontour.com, as well as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
ABOUT EPSON
Epson is a global technology leader dedicated to co-creating sustainability and enriching communities by leveraging its efficient, compact, and precision technologies and digital technologies to connect people,
things, and information. The company is focused on solving societal issues through innovations in home and office printing, commercial and industrial printing, manufacturing, visual and lifestyle. Epson’s goal is to become carbon negative and eliminate use of exhaustible underground resources such as oil and metal by 2050.
Led by the Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, the worldwide Epson Group generates annual sales of around JPY 1 trillion. Epson America, Inc., based in Los Alamitos, Calif., is Epson’s regional headquarters for the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. To learn more about Epson, please visit: epson.com. You may also connect with Epson America on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram.
via Epson Tour and Kevin Frisch PR
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