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LPGA's '18 Schedule Holds Steady At 34 Events, With Record Purses

The LPGA today unveiled its '18 schedule, which will "again feature 34 events" with a record $68.75M in total purses. That tops the $65M paid out in '17. While "three events are gone" from the '18 calendar, "three new events have been added, with two of those on the West Coast and one in mainland China." An "expanded West Coast swing in the front half of the schedule will now include the HUGEL-JTBC Championship" at a to-be-announced site in the L.A. area April 19-22. The following week will mark a return to S.F.’s Lake Merced Golf Club in a "new event sponsored by L&P Cosmetics, a Korean skincare company" (GOLFCHANNEL.com, 12/13).

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