LPGA Schedule Features New Events, Unprecedented TV Coverage

The LPGA today announced a '13 season schedule that features 28 tournaments, $49M in total prize money and more than 300 hours of event coverage on Golf Channel and other TV networks, the most in LPGA history. Every North American stop and 27 of the 28 events will be televised globally. The three new events on the schedule include the $1.8M Reignwood Pine Valley LPGA Classic in Beijing, which kicks off the tour's Fall Asian Swing the first week of October. The LPGA today also announced that CME Group has signed a multiyear extension to sponsor the season-ending CME Group Titleholders through '16 (LPGA).