LPGA Players Resistant To Using Twitter During Rounds

Morgan Pressel Tweets She Will Not Support On-Course Tweeting

TO TWEET OR NOT TO TWEET: ESPN’s Michael Wilbon said Bivens is "trying to find ways to make her tour more relevant, get more attention, draw more sponsorship. She’s trying everything." However, people need to "say to her, ‘Hey, chill. You can’t be involved in these desperate acts year after year trying to run the LPGA.’ … Tweeting is a waste of time and should not go on during competition." ESPN’s Tony Kornheiser: “This tour is dying. Competition alone is not going to make it survive. Here’s what will save it: the recognition that this is entertainment. You take your television cameras and before and after a shot, you ask the player what she is thinking and what happened. ... Twittering is step one to getting the players conditioned to having honest reactions" (“PTI,” ESPN, 6/4). NBC and Golf Channel analyst Dottie Pepper said golfers using Twitter on the course is "absurd, absolutely absurd." Pepper: "I just think this is turning things back incredibly. There are ways to use mediums like that to build a fan base, to keep up with what's hip right now, but I think it's absurd in a round of golf" (THE DAILY).

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