More than a handful of players with major Colorado connections set to tee it up in second Colorado Championship, the Annika Women’s All-Pro Tour event at Todd Creek
By Gary Baines
The second edition of the Colorado-based Annika Women’s All-Pro Tour event is back this week — with a new title sponsor but at the same course as the inaugural tournament.
The Colorado Championship, now with Brand Asset Partners as the title sponsor, will be held Tuesday through Friday at Todd Creek Golf Club in Thornton.
It’s expected that a purse of $55,000 will be up for grabs, with the winner earning $10,000.
The Annika WAPT is a developmental tour that many young female professionals use as steppingstones to the Epson Tour and perhaps eventually the LPGA Tour. To that end, the top two finishers at Todd Creek will receive spots into the Epson Tour’s event next week in Garden City, Kan.
The field for the Colorado Championship will feature 130 players, including a smattering of amateurs. That field will be cut after 36 holes to an anticipated 48 competitors and ties for the final two days.
Among the players with strong Colorado ties in the field are former amateur standouts from the state Leigha Devine of Windsor and Lauren (Lehigh) Dickey, a Loveland High School graduate; amateurs Logan Hale of Erie and the University of Denver and Lauren Lee of Parker; pro Angela King of Westminster, an instructor at Todd Creek; former University of Colorado golfer Natalie Vo; and Faith Kilgore, a former outstanding golfer at Colorado Christian University who is the new head coach of the women’s golf program at CCU.
Two of the top three players on the 2026 Annika WAPT money list are entered for the Colorado Championship — Katie Lu of Aiken, S.C. (No. 1) and Kate Villegas of Acadia, Calif. (No. 3). Villegas won the last tour stop — the Wisconsin Women’s Championship. Lu has also won once this season — the Coke Dr. Pepper Open in April.
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About the Writer: Gary Baines has covered golf in Colorado continuously since 1983. He was a sports writer at the Daily Camera newspaper in Boulder, then the sports editor there, and has written regularly for ColoradoGolf.org since 2009. The University of Colorado Evans Scholar alum was inducted into the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame in 2022. He owns and operates ColoradoGolfJournal.com