FireKeepers Casino Hotel Championship

Battle Creek Country Club | Battle Creek, Mich. | August 16-18

In the Winner’s Circle with Ssu-Chia Cheng

August 18, 2019

Hometown/Resides: Taipei, Chinese Taipei

Birthdate: October 28, 1997; currently 21 years, 9 months and 21 days

Qualified for Symetra Tour: Finished T36 at the Final Stage of the 2015 LPGA Qualifying Tournament to earn Priority List Category 17 status for the 2016 LPGA Tour season

Turned Professional/Rookie Year: December 2014/2015 rookie on Ladies European Tour

            

VICTORIES

Symetra Tour: First career victory 

LPGA Tour: N/A

Previous Win: 2014 Xiamen Open on the Ladies European Tour (LET) as an amateur
 

VOLVIK RACE FOR THE CARD

With her win, Cheng jumps to No. 3 in the Volvik Race for the Card with $86,218 total season earnings.

MONEY

With her win, Cheng collects a winner’s check of $18,750; she has earned $86,218this season and $117,658 in her Symetra Tour career (2019 is second full season competing on the “Road to the LPGA”).

PREVIOUS SYMETRA TOUR AND LPGA TOUR FINISHES

Symetra Tour: 2nd in the 2019 Donald Ross Classic

LPGA Tour: T31 at the 2016 ShopRite LPGA Classic presented by Acer

2019 IN A NUTSHELL ON THE SYMETRA TOUR

Seventeen events played and sixteen cuts made; $86,218 with one victory and six top-10s

OF NOTE

• Cheng, 21, is a native of Taipei, Chinese Taipei
• Four-time winner on the LPGA of Taiwan (TLPGA) as an amateur
• Won the 2014 Xiamen Open as an amateur in her Ladies European Tour (LET) debut
• Member of Team Chinese Taipei in the 2016 UL International Crown with a 2-2-0 record
• Nine starts on the LPGA Tour as an amateur with best finish of T15 at 2014 Fubon LPGA Taiwan Championship presented by Taiwan Mobile
• Finished T36 at the Final Stage of the 2015 LPGA Qualifying Tournament to earn Priority List Category 17 status for the 2016 LPGA Tour season
• Total of 33 starts on the LPGA Tour since rookie year of 2016 with career-best result of T31 in the 2016 ShopRite LPGA Classic presented by Acer
• Eight top-10 finishes in 38 career starts on the Symetra Tour and stepped into winner’s circle for first time in her professional career at the 2019 FireKeepers Casino Hotel Championship

ABOUT SYMETRA TOUR

The Symetra Tour is the official qualifying tour of the LPGA Tour and enters its 39th competitive season in 2019. With the support of its 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 over the course of 24 events. With more than 600 alumnae moving on to the LPGA, former Symetra Tour players have won a total of 437 LPGA titles. Follow the Symetra Tour on the web at www.SymetraTour.com, Facebook.com/Road2LPGA, Twitter.com/Road2LPGA, and YouTube.com/Road2LPGA.

ABOUT SYMETRA 

Symetra Life Insurance Company is a subsidiary of Symetra Financial Corporation, a diversified financial services company based in Bellevue, Washington. In business since 1957, Symetra provides employee benefits, annuities and life insurance through a national network of benefit consultants, financial institutions and independent agents and advisors. Symetra began its partnership with the Road to the LPGA in 2010 as the title sponsor of the Symetra Classic. It secured naming rights for the Symetra Tour in November 2011. In addition to its title sponsorship of the Tour, which runs through 2021, Symetra sponsors two events on the tournament schedule—the Symetra Classic and the season-ending Symetra Tour Championship. For more information about Symetra, visit www.symetra.com.