LPGA Championship Now Women’s PGA By ED TRAVIS Yesterday brought...

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LPGA Championship Now Women’s PGA
By ED TRAVIS
Yesterday brought...
LPGA Championship Now Women’s PGA By ED TRAVIS Yesterday brought an announcement marking the demise of a main the venerable LPGA Championship, given that 2011 the Wegmans LPGA Championship, and in its spot the start of a new main, the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. The new function will be a collaboration among the LPGA, the PGA of The usa and KPMG as sponsor. Commencing in 2015, the function will be run by the PGA and played at Westchester Region Club in Rye, New York a suburb of New York Town. The purse will boost to $3.5 million which is $250,000 greater than the Women’s U.S. Open purse this 12 months and $1.25 million a lot more than the 2014 LPGA Championship. LPGA Commissioner Michael Whan mentioned he predicted venues would be switched from 12 months to 12 months to other main markets but to continue to be largely in the New York Town location owing to of KPMG’s enterprise base. Very first played in 1955, LPGA Championship was received by a who’s who in girls golf which includes Mickey Wright, Betsy Rawls, Kathy Whitworth, Nancy Lopez, Juli Inkster, Annika Sorenstam and Se Ri Pak. Market view of the merger of pursuits among the PGA of The usa representing club specialists and the LPGA is this could effectively be a acquire-acquire circumstance. The PGA, 27,000 customers of which a huge amount are females, gains a large profile function and a platform to aid the recreation expand by attracting a lot more females specifically youthful females to engage in. The LPGA receives a spouse with huge economic assets and Ryder Cup, PGA Championship and other countrywide event administration expertise additionally direct entry to the countless numbers of PGA member working the nation’s golf facilitates. The only loser would look to be the Rochester, N.Y. local community that given that 1977 had supported a LPGA Tour cease. There’s no term regardless of whether Rochester will get yet another slot in LPGA timetable, a timetable that has obtained a lot more than ten tournaments given that Whan took above as commissioner even though around 50 percent the activities are exterior the United States. Impression of Stacy Lewis courtesy of PGA of The usa