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The Epson Tour moves from Florida to Arizona

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Second seasonal tournament of the Epson Tour that moves from Florida to Arizona for the Carlisle Arizona Women’s Golf Classic (March 16-19) on the Longbow Golf Club course in Mesa. The only Italian in the field is Roberta Liti after her good debut with 16th place two weeks ago in Florida’s Natural Charity Classic at the end of a race in which she was always in the top standings.

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The second of her two titles is defended by the 27-year-old Spanish Fatima Fernandez Cano from Santiago de Compostela, who won in the only event she took part in last season. She indeed she was on the LPGA Tour where she, however, in 17 appearances she had a 66th place finish suffering 15 cuts and forced to retire.

She will now try to give substance to a new climb towards the major circuit. At the start the French Agathe Laisne, winner in Florida, and the Americans Jillian Hollis, second, and Becca Huffer fourth with the Taiwanese Heather Lin, also from the match, in a field that includes the other Americans Alexa Pano, Laura Wearn and Kim Kaufman , Jaravee Boonchant and Prima Thammaraks of Thailand, Gabriela Ruffels and Robyn Choi of Australia, Daniela Holmqvist of Sweden, Sophie Hausmann of Germany, Clariss Guce of the Philippines, Milagros Chavez and Sofia Garcia of Paraguay and Canada’s Alena Sharp, who has seen better days on the LPGA Tour.

The prize pool is $335,000. Mesa is a city in Maricopa County in the state of Arizona. It is a suburb located approximately 20 miles (32 km) east of Phoenix. Mesa is the central city of the East Valley section of the Phoenix metropolitan area.

It is bordered by Tempe to the west, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community to the north, Chandler and Gilbert to the south along with Queen Creek and Apache Junction to the east. Mesa is the third largest city in Arizona, after Phoenix and Tucson, and is the 36th largest city in the United States.

The city is home to 508 958 inhabitants as of 2018 according to the Census Bureau….

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Source : tennisworldusa

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