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 key the venerable LPGA Championship, considering that 2011 the Wegmans LPGA Championship, and in its area the delivery of a new key, the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. The new celebration will be a collaboration amongst the LPGA, the PGA of The us and KPMG as sponsor. Commencing in 2015, the celebration will be operate by the PGA and performed at Westchester Place Club in Rye, New York a suburb of New York Town. The purse will enhance to $three.five million which is $250,000 more substantial than the Women’s U.S. Open up purse this calendar year and $one.twenty five million far more than the 2014 LPGA Championship. LPGA Commissioner Michael Whan explained he envisioned venues would be switched from calendar year to calendar year to other key marketplaces but to continue being primarily in the New York Town spot thanks to of KPMG’s organization foundation. 1st performed in 1955, LPGA Championship was received by a who’s who in females golfing like Mickey Wright, Betsy Rawls, Kathy Whitworth, Nancy Lopez, Juli Inkster, Annika Sorenstam and Se Ri Pak. Sector impression of the merger of pursuits amongst the PGA of The us symbolizing club pros and the LPGA is this may possibly properly be a earn-earn predicament. The PGA, 27,000 users of which a massive variety are girls, gains a substantial profile celebration and a system to support the match increase by attracting far more girls notably young girls to enjoy. The LPGA receives a associate with huge fiscal methods and Ryder Cup, PGA Championship and other countrywide event administration knowledge in addition immediate obtain to the hundreds of PGA member managing the nation’s golfing facilitates. The only loser would seem to be to be the Rochester, N.Y. group that considering that 1977 experienced supported a LPGA Tour end. There is no term no matter whether Rochester will get one more slot in LPGA plan, a plan that has received far more than 10 tournaments considering that Whan took in excess of as commissioner however about 50 % the functions are outside the house the United States. Graphic of Stacy Lewis courtesy of PGA of The us