2009-lpga-schedule Stories - Hound Dog LPGA
No Vacancy
As Commissioner Bivens has made clearer her vision of growing the LPGA brand, it was presumed by a few (myself not included) that she was going to shrink the Tour's rank and file and feed them to the Futures Tour. While that hasn't exactly happened, we do seem to be heading towards a similar...
Season-ending Houston event now a certainty
The LPGA announced today that the season-ending event in Houston will be held under the title of the LPGA Tour Championship. This is the event that was originally sponsored by Stanford Financial before its infamous demise. With no announced replacement sponsor, this limited-field event will...
Bell Micro Moves To April 2010
The LPGA announced today that the Bell Micro LPGA Classic (scheduled for October 8-11 in Mobile, Alabama) will be moved to a new date in April 2010. In the press release, Commissioner Bivens gave reasons for the move that the date "better suits the title sponsor and allows the venue to continue...
The schedule, the Commish and our outlook
After I posted on yesterday's announcement of the 2009 LPGA schedule, Commissioner Carolyn Bivens took to the podium in West Palm Beach and gave us some details. Yes, she put the expected positive spin on it, despite the net loss of three events and about $5 million in prize money from 2008's...
2009 LPGA Schedule
The schedule was officially released today listing 31 official events, down from 34 this year. Here is the press release from LPGA.com. There are a couple of positive surprises along with a negative one. The good news for me was - my unofficial tally of the schedule had the dates correct for all...
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