Throughout the 2020 season, once it resumes, the Symetra Tour will celebrate its 40th anniversary.
Michigan has hosted seven different Symetra tournaments since the first in 1984, the one-time Candlestone Classic outside Grand Rapids. From 1997-200, three metro Detroit courses hosted a tournament – Cattails Golf Club in South Lyon, Washtenaw CC in Ypsilanti and Mystic Creek GC in Milford. For parts of 2000-to-2005, both Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor hosted again. The Island Resort Championship at Sweetgrass in the U.P. began in 2011 and still runs today, as does the FireKeepers Casino tournament in Battle Creek, since 2014. Tullymore also hosted for three years (2015-17).
In 2019 the Symetra Tour eclipsed the $4 million threshold in total prize money for the first time in Tour history. An average purse size of $180,000 this season is the highest mark in the 40-year history of the Tour, up from $121,000 in 2015.
