Ten golfers with significant Colorado ties expected to compete in inaugural Annika Women’s All Pro Tour Colorado Championship at Todd Creek
By Gary Baines – 7/28/2025
In the last year, Colorado has hosted golf tournaments from the PGA Tour and the Korn Ferry Tour, as well as the usual annual fare from the Inspirato Colorado Open championships, the CGA, the Colorado PGA, among other notable events.
This week, the Centennial State will add a high-level women’s professional mini-tour event.
Specifically, the Annika Women’s All Pro Tour Colorado Championship will make its debut at Todd Creek Golf Club in Thornton, where the 72-hole tournament will run from Tuesday through Friday (July 29-Aug. 1).
The 11th event on the WAPT in 2025, the Colorado Championship will feature a purse of $55,000, with $10,000 going to the winner. The top two finishers — out of the original field of 132 — land spots into the Epson Tour’s Dream First Bank Charity Classic Aug. 22-24 in Garden City, Kan. The field at Todd Creek will be cut to the top 50 players and ties after two rounds.
Among the players with strong Colorado ties scheduled to tee it up at Todd Creek are two-time 5A state high school champion Lauren (Lehigh) Dickey, who grew up in Loveland; two-time CGA Women’s Player of the Year Leigha Devine of Windsor; Jaylee Tait of Littleton; Angela King of Westminster; Lacey Uchida of Fort Collins; former University of Colorado player Brittany Fan; former Colorado Christian University golfer Faith Kilgore; and amateurs Logan Hale of Erie, Elle Higgins of Centennial and Ching-Tzu Chen of Denver.
Also among those in the field is Hailey Jones of Dallas, who sits atop the Annika WAPT’s season-long points standings and has won twice — both times since mid-May.
The Women’s All-Pro Tour started in 2019, and World Golf Hall of Famer Annika Sorenstam lent her name to the tour as part of a five-year strategic alliance that began last year.
The idea behind the tour is to provide playing opportunities for female professionals and an additional path for them to reach the Epson Tour and eventually possibly the LPGA Tour. The top five season-long performers on the Annika WAPT earn spots into stage II of LPGA Tour qualifying and Epson Tour status for the following season.
For Tuesday’s tee times at Todd Creek, CLICK HERE.
There’s no charge for those who wish to attend the Colorado Championship.
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