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The PKBGT returns to action on February 11-12 with the Rocket Tour Players Championship\u00a0at the University of Georgia Golf Course. The course is home to the\u00a0University of Georgia<\/a>\u00a0Bulldogs women’s golf team. The course also hosts the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic which is the oldest women\u2019s collegiate tournament in the southern United States and boasts one of the toughest fields that the women will see all year. In 2013, the course was also host to the Women’s NCAA Division I National Championship. In addition to being an distinguish course in collegiate golf, the course also hosted the PGA Tour Web.com Stadion Classic Golf \"\"Tournament from 2010 to 2013. With its rich tournament history, the University of Georgia GC is an esteemed course for the 2017 Rocket Tour Players Championship.<\/p>\n

This event is the second event in the \u00a0LPGA Symetra Tour’s Women’s Health Classic Junior Challenge<\/a>. This challenge is composed of 6 events where Bell and Prep players are awarded points based on their finish in those fields. The Top-29 \u00a0players, and one sponsors exemption, will then compete in the Junior Challenge Qualifier on April 1-2, 2017 at The Links at Stoney Point.\u00a0The Challenge champion will receive a sponsor exemption into the\u00a0Self Regional Women’s Health Classic<\/a>\u00a0on May 1-7 2017 at\u00a0the Links at Stoney Point<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the 64 player field this weekend are players representing ten different states, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania,\u00a0and Wisconsin. \u00a0There are a number of new players who will make their PKBGT debut in Athens. \u00a0The 64 player field is also the largest in Players Championship history.<\/p>\n

Playing in the Bell Series is Caroline Wrigley (Wexford, PA 2019), \u00a0Amanda Sambach (Davidson, NC 2021), and Riley Smyth \u00a0(Cary, NC 2018). \u00a0Wrigley is 17th on the PKBGT Performance Index and coming off a strong win at the PKB Foundation Classic at Mid Pines at the end of January. \u00a0We’ll see if she can keep her great playing going by winning again! \u00a0Sambach is \u00a05th on the PKBGT Performance Index \u00a0and coming into this event after finishing second and T-3 in her last two events. She is also leading the Bell Order of Merit \u00a0in this 2017 season. \u00a0Smyth is coming into the Rocket Tour Players Championship with two Top-10 finishes, the most recent one is a T-2 at the PKB Foundation Classic. Smyth is also 23rd on the PKBGT Performance Index.<\/p>\n

Playing in the Futures Series fresh off her first victory this year at the Peggy Kirk Bell Junior is Alexia Siehl (Fort Mill, SC 2022). \u00a0She is currently ranked 101st on the PKBGT Performance Index and will test her skills to make it a second straight win! \u00a0Also in the field is Hannah Nall (Cleveland, TN 2022) and Erica Boyd (Charlotte, NC 2020) who are ranked 164 and 197 respectively on the Performance Index.<\/p>\n

We look forward to a great event and welcome our new players to the PKBGT family!<\/p>\n

The Rocket Tour PLAYERS Championship is sponsored by\u00a0Rocket Tour Golf<\/a>, makers of various stylish lines of golf head covers. Rocket Tour Golf doesn’t just love the game of golf, they have an obsessive passion for it! They believe your golf bag is an extension of your personality; it makes a statement before you even step to the tee box. Players will find a little inspiration from every decade in the hundreds of head cover designs, fitting everything from your driver and fairway woods to your putter. Learn more about Rocket Tour Golf at\u00a0rockettour.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Peggy Kirk Bell Girls\u2019 Golf Tour<\/a>\u00a0is an initiative of the\u00a0Triad Youth Golf Foundation<\/a>, a 501(c)3 non-profit foundation aimed at increasing learning and playing opportunities for youth golfers. Based out of Greensboro, North Carolina, the PKBGT offers affordable, high-quality nationally ranked girls\u2019 golf tournaments designed to prepare junior girls\u2019 golfers for high school and collegiate golf. The PKBGT is the nation\u2019s largest \u201cgirls\u2019 only\u201d junior tour with over 450 members in 2016 and 450 girls playing in or committed to collegiate golf. Learn more about the tour at\u00a0pkbgt.org<\/a>\u00a0or by contacting Tour Director Mike Parker at\u00a0mparker@pkbgt.org<\/a>\u00a0or 336-347-8537.<\/p>\n

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