2025 Copper Rock Championship Champion
Gina Kim
Kim, born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, started golfing at age 7, inspired by her professor parents. By 14, she was North Carolina’s top female junior golfer. After graduating from Chapel Hill High School, she joined Duke University’s women’s golf team in 2018. In early 2022, Kim turned professional, earning her LPGA Tour card through Q-Series.
She won her first pro event that year on the Epson Tour and earned LPGA status for 2023 and 2024, though she lost her card and returned to the Epson Tour in 2025. Since then, she has won three Epson Tour events, including the Copper Rock Championship with a -13, helping to reclaim her LPGA card for 2026. Despite the ups and downs of pro golf, Kim has proven she can handle both the lows and highs ahead.
2025 LPGA Legends Championship Champion
Cristie Kerr
Cristie Kerr is a highly accomplished American professional golfer known for her powerful play and consistent success on the LPGA Tour. Turning pro in 1998, Kerr has won 20 LPGA Tour events, including two major championships—the 2007 U.S. Women’s Open and the 2010 LPGA Championship.
After a close and competitive 2nd place finish in 2024 at the LPGA Legends Championship, Kerr showed her steady presence and reputation as a fierce competitor to win this year's 2025 Championship revealing she's still got what it takes.
2024 LPGA Legends Championship Champion
Angela Stanford
Ms. Stanford turned professional following the 2000 U.S. Women's Amateur in August and played on the Futures Tour, where she earned a victory at the season-ending event in early October. She finished fourth in the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament that year to earn exempt status on the LPGA Tour for 2001.
Stanford has been a member of six U.S. Solheim Cup teams
and has 7 wins on the LPGA Tour including 1 Major. She has won 3 times on the LPGA Legends Tour including the LPGA Legends Championship in back to back years in 2023 & 2024.
2024 Copper Rock Championship Champion
Fiona Xu
Ms. Xu hails from Auckland New Zealand where she enjoyed a very successful amateur golf career. Ms. Xu’s first year on the Epson Tour produced her first pro victory at the Copper Rock Championship in May, where her 22-under 194 was a record score for 54 holes on the tour. Xu had two other top-five finishes, including runner-up at the IOA Championship, and made 13 cuts of 17 starts, earning US$90,470 in the 2024 season.
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Ms. Xu, 20, finished eighth in the 'Race for the Card' at the conclusion of her Rookie year on the Epson Tour and will claim her place on the LPGA Tour for the 2025 season.
2023 Copper Rock Championship Champion
Savannah Vilaubi
Savannah Vilaubi, a former Highlander at the University of California, Riverside, claimed her first Epson Tour victory at the Copper Rock Championship in 2023. The Californian golf star demonstrated consistent, under-par performance throughout the tournament and ended it in style, emerging victorious from a tense three-person playoff.
2022 Copper Rock Championship Champion
Dottie Ardina
Dottie Ardina is a Filipino professional golfer who
won numerous amateur tournaments in Asia and represented the Philippines at the Espirito Santo Trophy in 2006 and 2010. Her 2006 appearance, at age 12, made her the youngest player ever to compete at the World Amateur Team Championships.
Ardina turned professional in 2013 and also played on the LPGA Tour in 2014. Also in 2014, she won the Thailand Singha-Sat LPGA Championship.
On the final day of the Copper Rock Championship, five strokes back of the lead held by Emma Broze entering Saturday, Ardina fired a bogey-free, 7 under 65 to win by two strokes at 5-under par.
2021 Copper Rock Championship Champion
Bailey Tardy
Tardy began the final round of the championship with a four-stroke lead and never lost momentum. She ended with a three- stroke win over Maude- Aimee Leblanc and Samantha Wagner, taking her first Tour victory.
Update: In 2022, Bailey Tardy earned her LPGA tour card, taking her place among the very elite in the country. READ HERE for more details.