Florida’s Natural Charity Classic

Country Club of Winter Haven | Winter Haven, Fla. | March 6-8
 

In the Winner’s Circle with Janie Jackson

March 8, 2020

Hometown/Resides: Huntsville, Alabama/Scottsdale, Arizona

Birthdate: February 5, 1994; currently 26 years, 1 month and 3 days

Qualified for Symetra Tour: Completed 72 holes at First Stage of the 2015 LPGA Qualifying Tournament to earn membership for the 2016 Symetra Tour season

Turned Professional/Rookie Year: 2016

            

VICTORIES

Symetra Tour: First career victory 

LPGA Tour: N/A

PREVIOUS WIN: 2012 Alabama High School Athletic Association Girls’ 6A State Golf Championship

VOLVIK RACE FOR THE CARD

With her win, Jackson jumps to No. 1 in Volvik Race for the Card with $18,750 in total season earnings.

MONEY

With her win, Jackson collects a winner’s check of $18,750; she has earned $18,750 this season and now $100,112 for her Symetra Tour career (2020 is her fifth season on the “Road to the LPGA”)

PREVIOUS SYMETRA TOUR AND LPGA TOUR FINISHES

Symetra Tour: T2 at 2019 Symetra Tour Championship

LPGA Tour: 73rd in the 2011 Navistar LPGA Classic as an amateur

2020 IN A NUTSHELL ON THE SYMETRA TOUR

One event played and one cut made; $18,750 with one victory and one total top-10

OF NOTE 

• Jackson, 26, is a native of Huntsville, Alabama
• Qualified for the 2014 U.S. Women’s Open at Pinehurst No. 2 as an amateur
• Became first female in the history of Alabama to win three state championships
• Three-time Alabama High School Class 6A individual title winner for Huntsville H.S.
• Made the cut as an amateur at the 2011 Navistar LPGA Classic after earning spot in the field through the Monday Qualifier
• Gained entry into 2012 Mobile Bay LPGA Classic and 2015 Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic as an amateur courtesy of the Monday Qualifier
• Posted 74.55 scoring average with three top-10 results as a University of Arizona freshman in 2012-2013 earning All-Pac 12 Honorable Mention
• Transferred to the University of Alabama where she spent final three years of collegiate career and was named to the All-SEC Second Team as a senior in 2016
• Finished T107 at Stage I of the 2015 LPGA Qualifying Tournament to first earn Symetra Tour status
• Made 14 cuts in 22 starts on the Symetra Tour in 2019 with a career-best of T2 at the Symetra Tour Championship
• Total of 60 events played in Symetra Tour career through 2020 Florida’s Natural Charity Classic with seven top-10 performances

ABOUT THE SYMETRA TOUR

The Symetra Tour is the official qualifying tour of the LPGA Tour and enters its 40th competitive season in 2020. 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 a record $4.0 million in prize money awarded in 2019. With more than 600 alumnae moving on to the LPGA, former Symetra Tour players have won a total of 445 LPGA titles. Follow the Symetra Tour on the web at www.SymetraTour.com, as well as Facebook.com/Road2LPGA, Twitter.com/Road2LPGA and Instagram @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.