Circling Raven Golf Club

KXLY 4 News Now Signs as Circling Raven Championship Title Sponsor; Event Tickets on Sale April 1

Media Company Joins Coeur d'Alene Tribe to Promote Symetra "Road to the LPGA" Tour Event

By Brian Weis

Worley, Idaho (March 4, 2021) - Circling Raven Golf Club - home of the nationally honored course in Northern Idaho and an amenity of Coeur d'Alene Casino Resort Hotel - today announces KXLY 4 News Now is the title sponsor for the 2021 Circling Raven Championship, a Symetra Tour "Road to the LPGA" event.

The inaugural Circling Raven Championship presented by KXLY 4 News Now is scheduled for Aug. 23-29, 2021. This is the Coeur D'Alene Casino Resort & Hotel's first year in a three-year partnership with the Symetra Tour. It will feature a field of 156 players, including some of the best female players worldwide. The rising-star competitors will vie for their share of $200,000 in prize money, one of the highest purses on the Symetra Tour this year.

With a strong performance, players can also get one step closer to earning their LPGA TOUR Membership for 2022, which is obtained through their year-long play culminating with the season-ending Symetra Tour Championship that will be played Oct. 7-10 at the LPGA International in Daytona Beach, FL.

"4 News Now is excited to be involved in the prestigious Circling Raven Championship, a Symetra 'Road to the LPGA' Tour event," said V.P. General Manager, Teddie Gibbon. "We look forward to showcasing some of the world's best young women professional golfers and building on the strength of our community."

Tickets to the Circling Raven Championship will be available for purchase beginning April 1 - online at cdacasino.com initially, and later at the Circling Raven Golf Club pro shop.

"It's humbling to have 4 News Now serve as title sponsor for the Circling Raven Championship," said Laura Penney, CEO, Coeur d'Alene Casino Resort Hotel. "They're helping support golf for women and girls, which helps empower them on the course and in life."

4 News Now is joined as a tournament sponsor by Centennial Distribution, Wildhorse Casino & Resort, Waymaker Wealth Advisors, Bank of America, and Callaway Golf.

There are tiers of Sponsor opportunities still available, ranging in price from $3,000 to $20,000. For more details about this year's tournament, contact Coeur d'Alene Casino Resort Hotel and Circling Raven at: 1.800.523.2464 or visit www.cdacasino.com.

About Circling Raven Golf Club and Coeur d'Alene Casino Resort Hotel

Owned/operated by Coeur d'Alene Tribe, Circling Raven is in the scenic Idaho panhandle approximately 55 minutes from Spokane International Airport (GEG). Measuring 7,189 yards from the rear tees, the 18-hole layout sprawls magnificently through 620 acres of woodlands, wetlands, and Palouse grasses. Its gleaming white sand bunkers are large and strategically placed and its hole variety ingenious. Other Coeur d'Alene Casino Resort Hotel amenities and activities include the full-service Spa Ssakwa'q'n (pronounced Sock-wock-en); 300 hotel rooms; bars, restaurants, lounges, and eateries; cultural immersion options; and more. The casino just completed a $15 million renovation of its gaming floor and Events Center in 2019. Circling Raven has garnered numerous best-in-kind honors since opening, including being rated a Top 100 Resort Course, Best in State, and a Top U.S. Casino Course. Its golf shop has won national and regional awards for its excellence and its variety of products, displays, and performance.

About Symetra Tour

The Symetra Tour is the official qualifying tour of the LPGA Tour and enters its 41st competitive season in 2021. 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 million in prize money awarded over the course of nearly two dozen events. With more than 600 alumnae moving on to the LPGA, former Symetra Tour players have won more than 400 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.

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About: Brian Weis

Brian Weis is the mastermind behind GolfTrips.com, a vast network of golf travel and directory sites covering everything from the rolling fairways of Wisconsin to the sunbaked desert layouts of Arizona. If there’s a golf destination worth visiting, chances are, Brian has written about it, played it, or at the very least, found a way to justify a "business trip" there.

As a card-carrying member of the Golf Writers Association of America (GWAA), International Network of Golf (ING), Golf Travel Writers of America (GTWA), International Golf Travel Writers Association (IGTWA), and The Society of Hickory Golfers (SoHG), Brian has the credentials to prove that talking about golf is his full-time job. In 2016, his peers even handed him The Shaheen Cup, a prestigious award in golf travel writing—essentially the Masters green jacket for guys who don’t hit the range but still know where the best 19th holes are.

Brian’s love for golf goes way back. As a kid, he competed in junior and high school golf, only to realize that his dreams of a college golf scholarship had about the same odds as a 30-handicap making a hole-in-one. Instead, he took the more practical route—working on the West Bend Country Club grounds crew to fund his University of Wisconsin education. Little did he know that mowing greens and fixing divots would one day lead to a career writing about the best courses on the planet.

In 2004, Brian turned his golf passion into a business, launching GolfWisconsin.com. Three years later, he expanded his vision, and GolfTrips.com was born—a one-stop shop for golf travel junkies looking for their next tee time. Today, his empire spans all 50 states, and 20+ international destinations.

On the course, Brian is a weekend warrior who oscillates between a 5 and 9 handicap, depending on how much he's been traveling (or how generous he’s feeling with his scorecard). His signature move" A high, soft fade that his playing partners affectionately (or not-so-affectionately) call "The Weis Slice." But when he catches one clean, his 300+ yard drives remind everyone that while he may write about golf for a living, he can still send a ball into the next zip code with the best of them.

Whether he’s hunting down the best public courses, digging up hidden gems, or simply outdriving his buddies, Brian Weis is living proof that golf is more than a game—it’s a way of life.