Murphy USA is excited to once again bring the Symetra Tour, Road to the LPGA, to southern Arkansas with its Murphy USA El Dorado Shootout presented by PepsiCo. The event will be held at Mystic Creek Golf Club in El Dorado, Arkansas from September 30 through October 2, 2016.

This will be the second time that Murphy USA and the El Dorado community will host the 54-hole stroke play format event. First-round play will begin on Friday, September 30 with the final round scheduled for Sunday, October 2. Numerous events will be occurring throughout the week leading into the tournament, including Pro-Am scrambles on Wednesday and Thursday where Symetra Tour professionals will compete alongside various sponsors and guests.

New to this year’s line up of festivities will be a Junior Clinic. The clinic will be held at Mystic Creek Golf Club and is scheduled for Sunday, September 25 from 2PM - 3:30PM, featuring instruction from Symetra Tour members and PGA teaching professionals. Children ages six to eighteen are invited to participate free of charge. Registration will be at Mystic Creek from 1:15PM - 1:45PM on September 25 prior to the beginning of the clinic.

The 132 player field, comprised of the top aspiring women’s professional golfers from around the world, will compete for a $100,000 total purse. The winner will earn $15,000 and take a significant step towards earning an LPGA Tour card for the 2017 season. The top-10 players on the year-end Volvik Race for the Card money list receive their full-time LPGA Tour cards for the following season. Since 1999, 117 Symetra Tour players have graduated to the LPGA.

The event will benefit Hope Landing whose mission is to bring hope and purpose to the lives of children with disabilities by helping them achieve their potential. A non-profit charitable corporation, it is dedicated to providing the highest quality of care, regardless of the families’ ability to pay. Located on a beautiful 80-acre ranch east of El Dorado, Hope Landing serves children, from birth to age 21, with physical or cognitive disabilities that limit or interfere with healthy development and independent function in daily life.

For more information about the Murphy USA El Dorado Shootout visit the tournament’s website.

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