Doesn't seem like a useful policy :(
Currently on maternity leave according to LPGA priority list - not yet returned after childbirth:
Nicole Broch Estrup: end-2024
Alison Lee: end-2024
Chella Choi 3-2024
Jessica Korda: 2-2024
Jaye Marie Green: 11-2023
Inbee Park: 4-2023
Too old to return?
Doesn't seem like a useful policy :(
Currently on maternity leave according to LPGA priority list - not yet returned after childbirth:
Nicole Broch Estrup: end-2024
Alison Lee: end-2024
Chella Choi 3-2024
Jessica Korda: 2-2024
Jaye Marie Green: 11-2023
Inbee Park: 4-2023
Too old to return?
Finishing outside the top 100 in 2024:
Lindsey Weaver-Wright
Caroline Masson
Sophia Popov
Emma Talley
Mel Reid
Hee Young Park
Azahara Munoz
Stacy Lewis
+ Brittany Lincicome who lost her card in 2023 but used the career earnings exemption to play 2024 but then again lost her card.
.../3
Finishing outside the top 100 in 2024:
Lindsey Weaver-Wright
Caroline Masson
Sophia Popov
Emma Talley
Mel Reid
Hee Young Park
Azahara Munoz
Stacy Lewis
+ Brittany Lincicome who lost her card in 2023 but used the career earnings exemption to play 2024 but then again lost her card.
.../3
is to reposition itself as a USA-only tour, copying Japan and Korean that are producing the world's best golfers. LPGA needs to cancel its Asian tourneys refocus on America (note for uneducated USA folk this doesn't mean USA) & attract the 18-49 white crowd that advertisers and sponsors want.
is to reposition itself as a USA-only tour, copying Japan and Korean that are producing the world's best golfers. LPGA needs to cancel its Asian tourneys refocus on America (note for uneducated USA folk this doesn't mean USA) & attract the 18-49 white crowd that advertisers and sponsors want.
The Ladies European Tour has 3 times rejected merging with LPGA instead increasingly taking Asian money to grow from 20 to 30 tourneys in 5 years.
Women's pro tours in Australia, many Asian countries, even Canada are growing faster than USA can develop pros.
The only way to save LPGA
.../8
The Ladies European Tour has 3 times rejected merging with LPGA instead increasingly taking Asian money to grow from 20 to 30 tourneys in 5 years.
Women's pro tours in Australia, many Asian countries, even Canada are growing faster than USA can develop pros.
The only way to save LPGA
.../8
meaning no fan growth. Its older fans & volunteers have long been grumbling about the Asian takeover of LPGA & will continue declining. Fans don't realize that it's only Asian $ that has kept LPGA alive for a decade. With Korea's economy in tatters they cannot be counted on to continue it.
.../7
meaning no fan growth. Its older fans & volunteers have long been grumbling about the Asian takeover of LPGA & will continue declining. Fans don't realize that it's only Asian $ that has kept LPGA alive for a decade. With Korea's economy in tatters they cannot be counted on to continue it.
.../7
white alumni to win is more important than developing pro golfers so they recruit and train foreigners. For 2025 only a few foreign born graduates came directly to LPGA - none were from USA.
With network tv only interested in the 18-49 demographic, LPGA will be stuck on GC for USA TV,
.../6
white alumni to win is more important than developing pro golfers so they recruit and train foreigners. For 2025 only a few foreign born graduates came directly to LPGA - none were from USA.
With network tv only interested in the 18-49 demographic, LPGA will be stuck on GC for USA TV,
.../6