Sorenstam Transition To Brand Ambassador LPGA Announces Two '14 Alabama Events LPGA Kingsmill Still Seeking Title Sponsor Whan Vows To Keep LPGA Championship At Mission Hills LPGA Feeling Whan's Impact Stacy Lewis Becoming Face Of LPGA League Notes LPGA Commish Mike Whan Talks '13 Season New LPGA Event To Begin In '14 LPGA Event Returns To Portland
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Annika Sorenstam Transitions From Golf Career To Building Out Business Brand
Published May 24, 2013Various LPGA “standouts, including Nancy Lopez, have had speci...
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LPGA Announces Two Alabama Tour Stops Next Season; Renewing Mobile Bay Event
Published May 15, 2013The LPGA Mobile Bay LPGA Classic at Magnolia Grove will return in '14 and... ..."make a second stop in the state with the Alabama LPGA Classic at Capitol Hill's Senator Course in Pratt... LPGA Commissioner Michael Whan said, "We'd play 40 tim... " Whan added, "In the 63-year history of the LPGA, we've never had this much TV coverage.
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LPGA Kingsmill Championship Continues Search For Title Sponsor
Published May 07, 2013Last week's LPGA Kingsmill Championship in Williamsburg, Va., was... " The LPGA's two-year contract with Xanterra "expired after... " He said Kingsmill's record for an LPGA tournament is "a little over 64,000," which was s... ...you'd like it to be." Nooe said Kingsmill and the LPGA contractually are scheduled to decide on '14 "by...
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LPGA Commish Vows To Keep Kraft Nabisco Championship At Mission Hills
Published April 02, 2013The LPGA Kraft Nabisco Championship will stay at Mission H... , "as long as" Mike Whan remains LPGA Commissioner, according to a front-page piece by... ” Whan’s confidence in the LPGA’s "future in the desert in 2015 and beyond comes... just one year before Kraft’s contract with the LPGA to run the Kraft Nabisco Championship will come t...
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LPGA Commissioner Mike Whan Making "Huge Impact" In First Three Years At The Helm
Published March 21, 2013LPGA Commissioner Mike Whan's “force of personality an... ” For each LPGA tournament, Whan “flies to the venue from his hom... Whan said of LPGA Tour events potentially ending on a day other tha... ...nn Baldry notes the contract for the RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup “remains on the table. ...esterday for a Pro-Am associated with this week's LPGA Kia Classic and was disqualified from the event.
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Stacy Lewis Is On Her Way To Becoming The New Face Of The LPGA
Published March 15, 2013...lfer Stacy Lewis has become the "new face" of the LPGA Tour, and the fact that she is a "blonde-haired,... ...Lewis is currently ranked No. 3 in the world, and LPGA Commissioner Mike Whan said, "There’s no question... ...showed us the value of being associated with the LPGA. ...of the few times in the last 20 years or so, the LPGA seems to be a wide-open tour.
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League Notes
Published February 15, 2013USA TODAY's Nate Ryan reports NASCAR is "encouraging Sprint Cup drivers to undergo baseline concussion testing and likely will make it mandatory for the 2014 season." NASCAR Senior Dir of Communications for Competition Kerry Tharp on Thursday said that NASCAR had been "providing information during competitors' annual preseason physicals about the imPACT test." The 30-minute computerized test is "mandatory" in IndyCar but "hasn't been required in NASCAR" (USA TODAY, 2/15). A NEW KIND OF SIN:...
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LPGA's Mike Whan Discusses The Tour Under His Leadership, Growing The Sport
Published February 14, 2013With the LPGA about to enter its 64th season, Commissioner Mike... " Whan said of the LPGA schedule moving from 23 events in '11 to 28 this... ...ecision I made was, in early 2010, re-pricing the LPGA to make it less expensive to be a sponsor and, li... Sirak notes, "Missing when the LPGA released its 2013 schedule last month was the Syb... " She also could "win another LPGA event and petition to join the tour, skipping Q-S...
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League Of Nations: LPGA Announces New U.S.-Based Match Play Event Beginning In '14
Published January 25, 2013The LPGA Tour on Thursday announced the creation of the In... ...ff is necessary to break a tie the following day (LPGA). LPGA Commissioner Michael Whan said, "We have a tour d... " The LPGA "years ago had the Lexus Cup, which was designed...
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Portland LPGA Event Returns For '13; Safeway To Be Presenting Sponsor
Published January 16, 2013...es still need to be worked out, there "will be an LPGA Tour event in the Portland area this year," accor... ...nt Golf Foundation, the organization that has run LPGA events in Portland since '72, "committed to runni... " The '13 LPGA schedule, released yesterday, "does not list a co... ...is the "longest-running regular tournament on the LPGA Tour" (OREGONLIVE.
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LPGA '13 Schedule Includes Three New Events; Tour's TV Exposure At All-Time High
Published January 15, 2013The LPGA today announced a '13 season schedule that featur... ...n Golf Channel and other TV networks, the most in LPGA history.8M Reignwood Pine Valley LPGA Classic in Beijing, which kicks off the tour's Fa... The LPGA today also announced that CME Group has signed a... ...season-ending CME Group Titleholders through '16 (LPGA)." LPGA Commissioner Michael Whan yesterday said, "By no...
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LPGA Adds Third New Event To Calendar With Addition Of North Texas Tourney
Published January 11, 2013The LPGA tour will return to Dallas-Ft. ...two decades with the creation of the North Texas LPGA Shootout, to be held April 25-28 at Las Colinas C... 3M. It will be the first 72-hole LPGA tourney in the area "since the 1991 U.S. Women’s... ...d the first at "any venue in Texas since the 2009 LPGA Tour Championship in Houston” (FT. WORTH STAR-TEL... com's Randall Mell reported though the LPGA “isn’t expected to release its full schedule unti...
