The Epson Tour, the Road to the LPGA, transitions to Asheville for the second-annual Friends of Mission Charity Classic this week. The three-round event begins on Friday, May 16 and concludes on Sunday, May 18.
The tournament will take place at the Country Club of Asheville, a Donald Ross designed course that overlooks the Blue Ridge Mountains.
The 144 professionals in the field will be competing for their share of the $100,000 total purse. The winner of the event will earn $15,000 and the chance to move into the top-10 on the Volvik Race for the Card money list.
The top-10 on the year-end Volvik Race for the Card money list will receive their LPGA Tour cards for the 2015 season.
Last year, Guilia Molinaro fired a final round 7-under-par 65 to win the inaugural Friends of Mission Charity Classic. She carded a three-day total of 13-under, five strokes better than second place.
Molinaro’s win at the Friends of Mission Charity Classic helped her finish second on the Volvik Race for the Card money list in 2013. She is now playing full-time on the LPGA Tour.
Angela Buzminski and Tracy Stanford, who both finished in the top-5 last year, are back in the field this week.
The Epson Tour has been busy over the last month. The Friends of Mission Charity Classic is the fourth event in a stretch of five consecutive weeks. It is the first of two events on the schedule in the state of North Carolina.
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