Pair Of Utah Locals Headline Copper Rock Championship Field – KSL Sports

SALT LAKE CITY – The Copper Rock Championship may have two Utah gamers within the subject forward of subsequent week’s Copper Rock Championship.

Former BYU golfer Kendra Dalton, who presently sits sixty fourth on the 2022 Epson Tour Cash Record, returns to Copper Rock with the hope of enhancing on final yr’s T45 end. Whereas Salt Lake Nation Membership assistant and three-time Utah PGA Participant of the Yr Haley Sturgeon additionally returns after receiving and accepting an exemption. Final yr Sturgeon missed the minimize by one shot.

“I can’t thank Copper Rock and the Epson Tour sufficient for permitting me to compete in my house state,” mentioned Sturgeon, who is ready to make her second Epson Tour begin within the Copper Rock Championship. “This can be a dream come true. It’s such an honor to be granted a sponsor invite and to characterize Utah is significant past phrases. I actually stay up for teeing it up in Hurricane amongst a few of the finest within the ladies’s sport.”

Dalton turned skilled in 2019 and has performed 4 occasions to this point in 2019. Her yr started with consecutive cuts earlier than ending in a T19 on the IOA Championship in Beaumont, California. Most just lately, Dalton completed in a T54 on the On line casino Del Sol Golf Basic.

Final yr, American Bailey Tardy received the inaugural Copper Rock Championship after capturing 10-under-par all through three rounds in difficult situations. In 4 occasions this yr, Tardy has missed the minimize on three events. She made her first minimize on the On line casino Del Sol Golf Basic and completed in a T58.

Yearly the highest 10 gamers on the Epson Tour graduate and obtain their LPGA Tour card, 8 of the present prime 10 gamers are anticipated to take to the course in Hurricane, Utah subsequent week.

The Copper Rock Championship is an occasion that consists of three rounds with the minimize to happen after the second spherical. The purse sits at $200,000 with the winner taking house $30,000.

The Copper Rock Championship will start on Thursday, April twenty first and can conclude on Saturday, April twenty third.

KSL Sports activities is the presenting sponsor for this yr’s Copper Rock Championship and followers can anticipate first-class protection from Utah’s premier sports activities platform.