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

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LPGA Championship Now Women’s PGA
By ED TRAVIS
Yesterday introduced...
LPGA Championship Now Women’s PGA By ED TRAVIS Yesterday introduced an announcement marking the demise of a significant the venerable LPGA Championship, because 2011 the Wegmans LPGA Championship, and in its location the beginning of a new significant, the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. The new occasion will be a collaboration in between the LPGA, the PGA of The united states and KPMG as sponsor. Starting in 2015, the occasion will be operate by the PGA and performed at Westchester Nation Club in Rye, New York a suburb of New York Metropolis. The purse will improve to $three.five million which is $250,000 bigger than the Women’s U.S. Open up purse this yr and $one.twenty five million much more than the 2014 LPGA Championship. LPGA Commissioner Michael Whan stated he anticipated venues would be switched from yr to yr to other significant marketplaces but to stay mainly in the New York Metropolis region because of to of KPMG’s company foundation. Initial performed in 1955, LPGA Championship was gained by a who’s who in women golfing such as Mickey Wright, Betsy Rawls, Kathy Whitworth, Nancy Lopez, Juli Inkster, Annika Sorenstam and Se Ri Pak. Business viewpoint of the merger of passions in between the PGA of The united states symbolizing club experts and the LPGA is this might nicely be a get-get scenario. The PGA, 27,000 associates of which a big quantity are ladies, gains a higher profile occasion and a system to assist the sport develop by attracting much more ladies especially more youthful ladies to perform. The LPGA will get a companion with enormous monetary sources and Ryder Cup, PGA Championship and other nationwide match administration encounter furthermore immediate accessibility to the 1000's of PGA member operating the nation’s golfing facilitates. The only loser would appear to be the Rochester, N.Y. neighborhood that because 1977 experienced supported a LPGA Tour quit. There is no phrase whether or not Rochester will get an additional slot in LPGA routine, a routine that has acquired much more than 10 tournaments because Whan took more than as commissioner although roughly fifty percent the occasions are outdoors the United States. Picture of Stacy Lewis courtesy of PGA of The united states