The tournament, founded in 1995 by Chicagoland Golf editor and publisher Phil Kosin, is open to female-at-birth professionals and amateurs age 17 and over who reside within the states of Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
The event's home course is the upland links-style Mistwood Golf Club in Romeoville, Illinois, designed by Ray Hearn.
Each year's champion has her name added to the Elaine Rosenthal Memorial Trophy, which honors one of Chicago's and the nation's early women's golf pioneers.
She volunteered her services as part of "The Dixie Kids" a foursome of talented teenage golfers who barnstormed the United States in 1917–18 playing exhibition matches.
Equally remarkable are the identities of the four teens: Rosenthal and Alexa Stirling were the women; Perry Adair and Bobby Jones were the men.