Will there be anything left of the LPGA?

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Will there be anything left of the LPGA?

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That is, after Carolyn Bivens gets done putting the torch to it?

Here's the latest fiasco.
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- Upset about an LPGA Tour schedule change, organizers of the ShopRite LPGA Classic are considering suing to keep the tournament's place on the tour calendar, event executive director Ruthie Harrison said Monday.

LPGA Tour officials announced earlier in the day that the $2.6 million Ginn Tribute Hosted by Annika Sorenstam will be played May 31-June 3 at RiverTowne Country Club in Mount Pleasant, S.C. That's the same weekend the ShopRite Classic has been held the past two years, and the one organizers planned on using through 2008.

http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=2522267
And I do mean it is just the latest fiasco. From her attempts to hijack revenue from writers and photographers at Turtle Bay, to the near tenfold increase in tournament fees, to the mass resignations/firings of 7 of her executive staff members in the last 10 months, including 3 who resigned the week of the LPGA Championship, to the airing of said LPGA Championship in its entirety on the Golf Channel, Bivens has been an unmitigated disaster as LPGA Commissioner. Even Annika Sorenstam, whom Bivens is bending over backwards for, appears to be ready to throw her under the bus.
"We have all worked very hard the last few years to build the LPGA into the wonderful product we have today," said Annika Sorenstam. "I am quite concerned about some of the decisions and changes I have seen lately. I just wonder where we are headed."

http://www.golfdigest.com/newsandtour/i ... 6lpga.html
I suspect the tipping point will come sometime last this summer. If the 11 tournaments that are not yet booked walk off the schedule en masse, Bivens is done. And it couldn't have happened to a nicer person. :meds:
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Once the korean broads make up 90% and the Gulbis' Creamers, etc...leave, it will be over.
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The Seer wrote:Once the korean broads make up 90% and the Gulbis' Creamers, etc...leave, it will be over.
The US still has more players than any other country on the LPGA. Right now the Koreans make up about half of the total international players currently on tour. But that is still only about 25% of the total number of players on tour.

As for Gulbis and Creamer, they aren't going anywhere for a long, long time.
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BSmack wrote:As for Gulbis and Creamer, they aren't going anywhere for a long, long time.
Thank god!
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