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Post by HappyFan on Jan 22, 2021 12:14:42 GMT
Na Rin An grabbed a sponsorship with 'DaeAn Motors', which seems to be the official distributor of Audi cars in Korea.
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Post by HappyFan on Jan 22, 2021 12:22:13 GMT
'Pink Princess' Ayean Cho has a new primary sponsor, 'Dongboo Consul'. And guess what? She's also signed with Dae An Motors, joining Na Rin An:
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Post by HappyFan on Jan 23, 2021 21:03:22 GMT
Organic pet food company OSP has signed sponsorship deals with Inbee Park, A Lim Kim and Ji Young Kim of the KLPGA.
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Post by jumpcut on Jan 24, 2021 2:14:45 GMT
The NY Times did a deep dive on appearance fees in pro golf, with just a brief mention of the women's game (Lexi, of course). www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/sports/golf/tournaments-paying-players.htmlHigh-profile players like Rory McIlroy, seen putting during round two of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship in 2018, bring in fans and make sponsors happy, so their presence is important.Credit...Matthew Lewis/Getty ImagesFor Elite Golfers, Money Talks
The best players can receive fees of more than $500,000, though sometimes those payouts are structured as a guarantee against any winnings in the event. Players like Dustin Johnson, ranked No. 1 in the world, have received more than $1 million to play in an event.
Tiger Woods was paid a $3 million fee to play in the 2013 Turkish Airlines Open. He finished fourth but made more than double what the winner, Victor Dubuisson, earned with a $1.1 million first-place check.
“When you’re trying to sell sponsorships, you need to have the best field possible,” Biesecker said. “If you have to load some pockets up to have that field, that’s what you do. Sometimes the sponsor says I want this guy to come, and here’s the money for it.”
He said he had negotiated appearance fees for Stuart Appleby, an Australian golfer with multiple wins, Jhonattan Vegas of Venezuela, and Lexi Thompson, the L.P.G.A. star, when a South Korean tournament wanted her to play.
The fees can create perverse incentives. They can make players who might otherwise have been in the field not want to play without a fee.
“Once you allow this to happen, except for the major events, everyone has to pay people to show up,” said Craig Garthwaite, professor of strategy at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. “You can scale back and say I’m going to shift more of the budget to appearance fees than prize money. But in that setting, big stars still win no matter what.”
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Post by HappyFan on Jan 26, 2021 12:13:55 GMT
OK, so here is how the KLPGA stars have been shuffled among the various Pearly Gates/Master Bunny clothing lines: Master Bunny this year will feature Min Sun Kim and Chae Young Yoon as before. Joining them is rookie Ji Woo Jung. I've heard that Char Young Kim will be taking a year off after failing to keep her card. Ji Woo Jung Hyun Ju Yoo also doesn't have a card, but she is still in demand. She has switched from Master Bunny to TaylorMade, which seems to have a clothing line as well as a club line. End of an era! Fantom will feature A Lim Kim, Ga Young Lee and of course Lucky Six Jeongeun Lee6, as well as KLPGA Sophomore Se Lin Hyun. Pearly Gates now has Hyun Kyung Park and Hye Lim Jo. Ji Hyun Oh is moving over to St. Andrews, which sounds like another 'high end' (and new?) line. Ping will feature Da Yeon Lee. Two more rookies mentioned are Ye Won Lee, who will don Pearly Gates, and Ina Yoon, who will go with Fantom.
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Post by HappyFan on Jan 26, 2021 17:32:24 GMT
So Mi Lee has signed a clothing sponsorship with BenJefe:
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Post by HappyFan on Jan 26, 2021 17:54:07 GMT
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Post by jumpcut on Jan 27, 2021 14:17:16 GMT
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Post by HappyFan on Jan 28, 2021 17:30:09 GMT
Renoma Golfwear sponsorees for 2021: (L to R): Jin Seon Han, Se Hee Lee, Lydia Ko, Kyeong Bae, KPGA's Tae Hoon Lee. Not pictured: Ju Yeon In. These five ladies each will have a two-year sponsorship with Renoma. Se Hee Lee was the 4th ranked player on the Dream Tour last year and is playing on the KLPGA in 2021.
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Post by HappyFan on Jan 31, 2021 18:03:28 GMT
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Post by HappyFan on Feb 1, 2021 17:43:46 GMT
"April 27th" (I guess this is a golf product of some kind) has a team: Young Ran Jo and Li Ah Kang (the poster says 'make your skin spring time', so I guess this is some kind of skincare product...) Jin Hee Lim; I've never heard of this gal before, she might be a newbie?
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Post by HappyFan on Feb 1, 2021 17:49:22 GMT
KLPGA 2020 Rookie of the Year Hae Ran Ryu joins the CoffeeSmith family: (I think CoffeeSmith is a Korean Starbucks knock off)
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Post by johnboy on Feb 2, 2021 10:21:35 GMT
The KLPGA players would have to be the most well sponsored players in women's pro golf, i wonder what the usual endorsement value would be - even average players are plastered with logos as opposed to the US
I know from what i have read on the JLPGA players pretty much every player has a main sponsor and the average players value is like a years salary something in the tune of 5Million Yen. Players like Shibuno, Hara etc would be in the 100Million yen range.
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Post by HappyFan on Feb 2, 2021 13:45:14 GMT
The KLPGA players would have to be the most well sponsored players in women's pro golf, i wonder what the usual endorsement value would be - even average players are plastered with logos as opposed to the US I know from what i have read on the JLPGA players pretty much every player has a main sponsor and the average players value is like a years salary something in the tune of 5Million Yen. Players like Shibuno, Hara etc would be in the 100Million yen range. I'd guess that most of the KLPGA golfers who maintain tour cards, and a fair number of Dream Tour members as well, make more money from sponsor deals than on the course. I've never even heard of Jin Hee Lim, for instance, yet I count Samdasoo, April 27th, and whatever that logo on her right chest is. Plus that weird number on her hat could be another sponsor deal, for a total of four. And that doesn't even include if she has something on her bag, like a ball or club deal. They used to list the exact money total for the deals, but they don't do that as often anymore for some reason (maybe the companies keep that private?).
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Post by HappyFan on Feb 2, 2021 13:58:27 GMT
As another example, A Lim Kim is busily preparing to come to the LPGA as a rookie. She is spending an hour/day learning English on top of a concentrated training program focusing on learning new grass types common in America. Anyways, according to a recent article, here is the list of her sponsors, many of which came on board following her US Women's Open win: SBI Savings Bank (main sponsor) Mizuno (clubs) Fantom (clothing) Titleist (ball, glove, shoe) Voice Caddy Rudy (no idea what this is) Sky 72 (golf country club) OSP (pet foods) Eloel (cosmetics) Coffeesmith (cafe) Wow! The Coffeesmith announcement came just today:
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