The Casella Golf Championship is an annual golf tournament for professional women golfers on the
Epson Tour
The Epson Tour, previously known as the LPGA Futures Tour, and known for sponsorship reasons between 2006 and 2010 as the Duramed Futures Tour and between 2012 and 2021 as the Symetra Tour, is the official developmental golf tour of the LPGA Tour ...
, the
LPGA
The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is an American organization for female golfers. The organization is headquartered at LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Florida, and is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekly ...
's developmental tour. The event has been played since 1984 and is held in the
Albany, New York
Albany ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. It is located on the west bank of the Hudson River, about south of its confluence with the Mohawk River. Albany is the oldes ...
area.
In 2010 and 2011, the title sponsor was
Price Chopper, a chain of supermarkets headquartered in
Schenectady, New York
Schenectady ( ) is a City (New York), city in Schenectady County, New York, United States, of which it is the county seat. As of the United States Census 2020, 2020 census, the city's population of 67,047 made it the state's ninth-most populo ...
. The presenting sponsors in 2012 were SEFCU and Sunmark,
credit union
A credit union is a member-owned nonprofit organization, nonprofit cooperative financial institution. They may offer financial services equivalent to those of commercial banks, such as share accounts (savings accounts), share draft accounts (che ...
s in the Albany area, and Burns-Fazzi, Brock, a credit union benefits consulting company. SEFCU became title sponsor in 2014 and in 2015 Fuccillo Kia with
Billy Fuccillo stepped in. In 2019 Capital District Physicians' Health Plan, Inc. (CDPHP) became title sponsor. The venue changed to Pinehaven Country Club and the tournament purse rose to $175,000 in 2021.
The tournament was a 54-hole event, as are most Symetra Tour tournaments, and includes pre-tournament pro-am opportunities, in which local amateur golfers can play with the professional golfers from the Tour as a benefit for local charities.
Tournament names through the years:
*2000–2002: Capital Region Futures Classic
*2003: GE Futures Professional Golf Classic
*2004–2005: The Albany Futures Golf Classic
*2006–2009: ILOVENY Championship
*2010–2011: Price Chopper Tour Championship
*2012: The Credit Union Challenge presented by SEFCU, Sunmark, and BFB Benefits
*2013: Credit Union Challenge
*2014: SEFCU Championship at Capital Hills
*2015–2016: Fuccillo Kia Championship at Capital Hills
*2017–2018: Fuccillo Kia Classic of NY
*2019–2020: The CDPHP Open
*2021–2024: Twin Bridges Championship
*2025: Casella Golf Championship
Winners
Tournament records
References
External links
*{{official, https://www.twinbridgeschamp.com/
Coverage on Epson Tour websiteCapital Hills at Albany official websiteWestern Turnpike Golf Course official websiteOrchard Creek Golf Club official website
Epson Tour events
Golf tournaments in New York (state)
Women's sports in New York (state)
Sports in Albany, New York
Recurring sporting events established in 1984