The IOA Invitational was a tournament on the

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, the

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's developmental tour. It was a part of the Symetra Tour's schedule between 2018 and 2020. It was held at Atlanta National Golf Club in

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was the inaugural champion, and in 2019

María Parra María Parra Luque (born 4 December 1997) is a professional golfer from Spain who played on the Ladies European Tour and the LPGA Tour already as a teenager. She won the 2015 European Ladies Amateur and rose to No. 2 in the World Amateur Golf Ra ...

prevailed over

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Ssu-Chia Cheng Ssu-Chia Cheng ( zh, c=程思嘉; born 27 October 1997) is a Taiwanese professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. Early life and amateur career Cheng started playing golf at the age of 8 and as an amateur won four events on the Taiwan LPG ...

and

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in a five-hole playoff hole for her first Symetra Tour victory. The tournament in 2020 was cancelled due to the

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Winners

References

External links

*{{official, https://ioainvitational.com/
Coverage on Symetra Tour website
Former Symetra Tour events Golf in Georgia (U.S. state)