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Evian Championship Berths for Winner, Runner-Up on the Line at Ninth Annual Tournament
Escanaba, MI – The Symetra Tour’s Island Resort Championship returns to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Sweetgrass Golf Course at The Island Resort and Casino, June 21-23. This year’s event marks the ninth consecutive year Sweetgrass has been the event’s host venue and the first year that the winner and runner-up of the 54-hole stroke play tournament will earn an automatic exemption into the Evian Championship in France, one of the LPGA Tour’s five “Majors.”
With that huge incentive plus an increased purse of $200,000 (with $30,000 going the winner), fans can expect to see the Symetra’s top talent plus some eager exempt LPGA Tour players taking advantage of the expanded 156-player field size.
“It’s always great to be back at Sweetgrass and the Island Resort and Casino because we know we’re walking into a well-oiled machine,” said Tim Kramer director of tournament and business affairs for the Symetra Tour. “The Evian exemption shows how intertwined the LPGA Tour and the Symetra Tour are now. The opportunity to connect an event in the U.P. to one of the sport’s majors being played in Europe is exciting. Like the Island and Sweetgrass, we’re always aiming to raise the bar for this tournament.”
The week kicks off with the popular Symetra Tour Pro-Am on Wednesday June 19, giving sponsors a chance to play with Symetra contestants on the manicured Sweetgrass Golf Course, a 2008 links-style design crafted by Michigan course architect Paul Albanese. “On Sweetgrass, you have to be able to flight your ball to manage the wind and you have to learn these greens,” says Island Resort & Casino General Manager, Tony Mancilla. “These players don’t see a lot of prairie-style courses on this tour, but they have consistently told us this is one of the best golf courses they play all year.”
Last year, China’s Ruixin Liu finished 9-under with rounds of 68 – 70 – 69 to make this event one of her three Symetra Tour victories on her way earning her LPGA Tour card and 2018 Symetra Tour Player of the Year honors. South Korea’s Min Seo Kwak and former University of North Carolina-Wilmington golfer, Lori Beth Adams, both finished one shot back at -8 to close tied for second.
Among the players highlighting the field of LPGA hopefuls will be former Stanford standout and four-time Wisconsin state champion Casey Danielson, who finished tied for fourth at this event last year. Danielson played on the NCAA Championship-winning Stanford team in 2015.
The Sweetgrass course will be another “star” on display at this tournament. Golf course architect Paul Albanese pays homage to Tribal legend in Sweetgrass’ design features. The name, itself, refers to an aromatic herb, a sacred plant, used in Native American peace and healing rituals, and is found along the course. Masterfully-crafted rockwork and cedar posts are prevalent throughout the design, which also boasts an island green on No. 15 and a pair of breathtaking waterfalls which greet golfers as they walk up the 9th and 18th holes to an enormous, shared green. A Biarritz and a Redan green, and “rescued” bridges from around Michigan are other compelling components of the course.
“They’ll have to be on their short games to contend on this golf course,” says Director of Golf, Dave Douglas. “It’s a lot of fun watching this level of talent. They hit the ball a long way and their scoring averages on the Symetra Tour are typically only a stroke different from the LPGA on very-similar golf courses.”
Mancilla calls the Island Resort Championship at Sweetgrass the kickoff to golf season in the Upper Peninsula. “We have a great family atmosphere. All the food is $2 or less and we get a great crowd out here to watch some of the finest women golfers from around the world,” he adds.
For information on tickets, Pro-Am entry or staying on property during The Island Resort Championship at Sweetgrass, visit www.islandresortgolf.com
About Island Resort & Casino
Located in Michigan’s scenic Upper Peninsula 13 miles west of Escanaba, Island Resort & Casino is one of the Midwest’s largest golf, casino and entertainment resort destinations. The resort features over 300 guest rooms including elegant suites and a 42 –site RV Park. The 408,520 square feet casino offers slots, a poker room, craps, blackjack, Spanish 21, three card poker, let-it-ride, roulette and bingo.
The resort amenities also include the luxurious Drift Spa offering a variety of high-end spa services with access to the resort’s saltwater pool, steam rooms and sauna. Multiple dining options include the signature 5 Bridges Steak and Seafood House, 5 Bridges Pub, Firekeeper’s Restaurant, T.McC’s Sports Bar, Coral Reef Grille, Signature Subs & Pizza, The Coffee & Bakery Shop, as well as The Custard Shop. The Island regularly hosts headline entertainment in the intimate 1,315 seat Showroom, as well as weekly bands and comedy entertainers in Club 41. The Island Convention Center provides the perfect venue for special events, business meetings and weddings.
Award-winning golf has become the centerpiece of the Island Resort & Casino. Sweetgrass, ranked among Golfweek’s Best Courses, as well as recognition by GOLF Magazine and Golf Digest as a Best in State ranking, features an open layout with some of the game’s most fun greens to putt (Redan, Biarritz, Island, and Double-green). The Island Resort Championship at Sweetgrass is part of the Symetra Tour – “Road to the LPGA” and the future of women’s golf. 2019 will be the first full season for Sage Run Golf Club, also designed by Paul Albanese (Sweetgrass) providing a different kind of golf experience where holes flow through the hardwoods and around a drumlin ridge. Golfers will find Sweetgrass and Sage Run are dramatically different, but equally exceptional.
For more information, visit www.islandresortandcasino.com.
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Sweetgrass is a circumboreal plant which is common above 40 degrees north latitude in Asia, Europe, and North America (Walsh 1994). In North America this fragrant grass grows regionally from Labrador to Alaska, and south to New Jersy, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, South Dakota, Arizona and Washington (Larson 1993). Sweetgrass can be found growing wild in wet meadows, low prairies, the edges of sloughs and marshes, bogs, shaded streambanks, lakeshores, and cool mountain canyons. Sweetgrass rhizomes and roots form a dense mat beneath the soil surface (Walsh 1994).
Sweetgrass flowers from June through August and is easily identified by the sweet vanilla-like fragrance of it’s leaves, its 3-flowered spikelets about 1/4 inch long, and its hairy lemmas. The stems of the grass are upright and hollow, growing up to 2 feet tall, without hairs. The leaves are elongated, narrow and flat (up to ¼ inch wide, and are also hairless. The Sweetgrass flowers are borne in 3-flowered spikelets, which are arranged in a panicle up to 4 inches long. The spikelets themselves are about 1/4 inch long (the lower 2 flowers are male only, while the upper flower has both stamens and pistils (USDA n.d.).
Sweetgrass usually grows among other grasses or shrubs; it is seldom found in pure stands. Dried Sweetgrass foliage is fragrant because of its coumarin content (Walsh 1994). Sweetgrass is traditionally harvested in late June or early July. Sweetgrass harvested after exposure to frost has little sent. Care should be taken to cut Sweetgrass leaves and not to pull the grass up by its roots so it can grow again the next year. Weeding Sweetgrass areas lessens competition from other plants.
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Uses for Sweetgrass in Medicine & Ceremony
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Many Native tribes in North America use sweetgrass in prayer, smudging or purifying ceremonies and consider it a sacred plant. It is usually braided, dried, and burned. Sweetgrass braids smolder and doesn't produce an open flame when burned. Just as the sweet scent of this natural grass is attractive and pleasing to people, so is it attractive to good spirits. Sweetgrass is often burned at the beginning of a prayer or ceremony to attract positive energies. Densmore (1974) describes that among the Chippewa (Ojibwa), 'young people, chiefly young men, carried a braid of sweet grass and cut off 2 or 3 inches of it and burned it for perfume. Young men wore two braids of sweet grass around their necks, the braids being joined in the back and falling on either side of the neck like braids of hair.'
Sweetgrass is used to 'smudge'; the smoke from burning sweetgrass is fanned on people, objects or areas. Individuals smudge themselves with the smoke, washing the eyes, ears, heart and body. Mi'kmaq have long used sweetgrass as a smudging ingredient, often mixed with other botanicals. Sweetgrass is one of the four medicines which comprise a group of healing plants used by the people in Anishinabe, Bode'wad mi, and Odawa societies. The other three are tobacco, cedar, and sage (Mary Ritchie 1995).
Among the Chippewa wicko'bimucko'si (sweetgrass) is braided and used in pipe-smoking mixtures along will red willow and bearberry, when it is burned, prayers, thoughts and wishes rise with the smoke to the creator who will hear them. Densmore (1974) describes the story of 'a hunting incident in which a party of men placed sweet grass on the fire when the camp was in danger of starving and they were going again to hunt. Medicine men kept sweet grass in the bag with their medicinal roots and herbs'.
A tea is brewed by Native Americans for coughs, sore throats, chafing and venereal infections. It is also used by women to stop vaginal bleeding and to expel afterbirth. It is warned that because the roots contain coumarin, that sweetgrass tea may be considered a carcinogenic. (Foster & Duke 1990)
Uses for Sweetgrass in Baskets & Crafts
Trudie Lamb Richmond, Schaghticoke, spoke to a Mohawk basket-maker not long ago and asked her how she felt about weaving sweetgrass into her baskets. Sweetgrass is used by her people in their ceremonies and like tobacco is believed to have great power. It was used long ago in the ceremonial baskets and continued to be important even in those times when basket making became more material and less spiritual. She told me she had thought about this meaning and that was why she always talked to her baskets as she made them. She said that she asked forgiveness for having to sell the baskets, but that she needed the money to survive. Using the sweetgrass would keep the baskets strong and alive, and she hoped that the people who bought them would appreciate their significance. The basket weaver explained that she never picked the grass without making a tobacco offering. Her people believe that you have to give something for everything you take; even a tobacco offering is an acknowledgment. That is the old way, our way. (McMullen & Handsman 1987)
Ojibwe' on Manitoulin Island (among other places) make boxes from white birch bark, which is bound on the edges with sweetgrass and decorated with quills. My great grandfather, Chuhquat, made sweetgrass baskets for his granddaughters (Mary Ritchie 1995).
Frances Densmore (1974) explains that Among the Chippewa (Ojibwa), 'strands of sweet grass were made into 'coiled basketry' by means of cotton thread. This took the form of bowls, oval and round, and of flat mats. Birch bark was sometimes used as the center of such articles, the coils of sweet grass being sewed around it.'
Mi'kmaq tend to use sweetgrass as a decorative accent in basket-work, very rarely will you find baskets made entirely of sweetgrass and if you do, they are usually quite small (3-4' in diameter), have a cover and are often used for small sewing notions such as buttons, etc. (Capucine Plourde 1995).
All of the Waban'Aki or Dawnland People used sweetgrass in making their baskets. The sweetgrass would be braided into small braids and then woven into the ash baskets. The Waban-aki are made up of the Abenaki, Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, Penobscot and Passamaquoddy, all of the northeast. An Abenaki friend of mine living in Portland Maine has a basket that his mother made probably 70 or 80 years ago that is made completely of sweetgrass and holds a sewing thimble like a glove (Louis Annance 1995).
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