Saturday finish to give players more time to prepare for Evian Championship
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., April 11, 2017
– The inaugural Indy Women in Tech Championship presented by
Guggenheim, to be held at Brickyard Crossing Golf Course in Indianapolis
in early September, will be contested over three rounds this year with a
Saturday finish, the LPGA announced today.
The
$2 million tournament will be played from Sept. 7-9, giving the world's
top female golfers the incentive to come to Indy and still have time to
travel to France for the season’s final major, the Sept. 14-17 Evian
Championship.
Alternative
date options will be considered by LPGA officials and tournament
organizers for future years with a time frame that suits both the LPGA
travel schedule and the Indianapolis sporting calendar while also
allowing for four rounds of competition.
The
Indy Women in Tech Championship, which will feature a full field of 144
players on a Pete Dye-designed course that weaves through the famed
Indianapolis Motor Speedway, joins the ShopRite LPGA Classic presented
by Acer and the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship presented by P&G as
a three-day event on the LPGA Tour’s 2017 schedule.
The
LPGA Tour’s 500 Ladies Classic was played at the same venue in 1968
before the course was remodeled in 1991 and given its current name.
Indianapolis
has not hosted a stroke-play tournament on the LPGA Tour since the
Mayflower Classic in 1988, although other events have been held in the
state of Indiana -- most recently the 2005 Solheim Cup at Crooked Stick
Golf Club in Carmel.
In
addition to bringing the world’s best golfers to Indianapolis, the Indy
Women in Tech Championship will raise funds for the Indy Women in Tech
foundation. The foundation, established by Guggenheim, was created to
provide awareness and funding for impactful women and tech initiatives,
particularly those focused on robotics, STEM days and career
transitioning for those re-entering the workforce.
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