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Post by 18majors on Dec 7, 2018 23:38:48 GMT
I am so disappointed that the KEB Hana bank is gone. It was my second favorite course next to Mission Hills where the ANA is played. Let's hope BMW Ladies Championship is a good substitute.
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Post by johnboy on Dec 8, 2018 1:06:00 GMT
If it wasn't for the foreign events or Korean sponsors the LPGA would still be struggling!
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Post by 18majors on Dec 8, 2018 1:15:38 GMT
If it wasn't for the foreign events or Korean sponsors the LPGA would still be struggling! The Korean stars and Ai Miyazato are the real reasons that LPGA has been able to grow since Mike Whan took over in 2009.
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Post by HappyFan on Dec 8, 2018 12:30:46 GMT
Whan's genius was that he didn't actively resist the Asian stars like his predecessors did. Unlike them, he could see where the big money was coming from and actively courted it. Of course, we on this message board were yelling at the LPGA to do that years before Whan came around.
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Post by cannlinny on Dec 8, 2018 15:56:09 GMT
Not only did Wahn not resist the Asian stars, he consistently celebrates and promotes the global nature of the tour.
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Post by verdantgarden on Dec 8, 2018 17:31:29 GMT
No real definite plans to attend tournaments in 2019 except I will make the drive down to Portland for the Labor Day weekend. I would love to travel back to Hawaii but I don't know if my work schedule will allow me to attend the Lotte. However, I just might attend the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship. It's been 10 years since I headed to Florida for a tournament.
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Post by 18majors on Dec 8, 2018 18:14:07 GMT
Look like a photo from 2016 KEB Hana Bank
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Post by 18majors on Dec 9, 2018 1:17:12 GMT
The January Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions is disrupting the off season plan of many Korean stars. Inbee Park, who normally doesn't show up until Singapore will ow depart for Las Vegas the middle of December to prepare for the tournament.
The same should also be true for Jin Young Ko, Eun Hee Ji, Sei Young Kim, In Gee Chun, So Yeon Ryu and Sung Hyun Park.
The 3 months off season between November 2017 to February 2018 didn't help In Gee; may be the short off season will do the tricks.
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Post by jumpcut on Dec 9, 2018 23:21:52 GMT
LET golf schedule remains in limbo, leaving players in quandary golfweek.com/2018/12/09/let-golf-schedule-remains-in-limbo-leaving-players-in-quandary/For the second year in a row, players will travel to the Ladies European Tour Qualifying School more in hope than expectation. In more ways than one. The 2019 LET Qualifying School is scheduled Dec. 16-20 in Morocco. Once again, those players who earn one of the 25 cards have no idea how many tournaments they will play next year. The LET has yet to publish its 2019 schedule. It cost $1,450 to enter this year’s Q-School. Imagine getting your dream job and having no idea where, when and if you’ll be working? By low purses we’re talking between a low of $140,000 for the Jabra Ladies Open to $500,000 for the Hero Women’s Indian Open. The first four events on this year’s schedule were co-sanctioned with the Australian Ladies Professional Golf Tour. Two of those were worth just over $100,000. You don’t have to be a math genius to work out that traveling to, and accommodation in, Australia isn’t cheap. Even a top-10 finish in those events could leave players taking a loss on the week.
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Post by 18majors on Dec 10, 2018 0:16:45 GMT
European Tour went through tough periods before; but never as bad as LET is now.
The biggest problem is The R&A doesn't even sponsor Women's British Open; they leave it to commercial companies. There isn't any driving force for women's golf in Europe.
In the US, not only UGSA is a prominent driver for women's golf; both amateur and professional; now Augusta National has also stepped in to help.
How can they play Solheim Cup with a straight face!
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Post by 18majors on Dec 10, 2018 1:20:47 GMT
ISPS Handa is a strange organization; it sponsors many golf tournaments even though it isn't a giant corporation like Walmart.
ISPA Handa is the new sponsor for Vic Open; they increased the purse but forced the tournament to move from LET to LPGA.
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Post by 18majors on Dec 10, 2018 1:28:31 GMT
Will they increase the purse?
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Post by HappyFan on Dec 10, 2018 11:04:15 GMT
LET golf schedule remains in limbo, leaving players in quandary golfweek.com/2018/12/09/let-golf-schedule-remains-in-limbo-leaving-players-in-quandary/For the second year in a row, players will travel to the Ladies European Tour Qualifying School more in hope than expectation. In more ways than one. The 2019 LET Qualifying School is scheduled Dec. 16-20 in Morocco. Once again, those players who earn one of the 25 cards have no idea how many tournaments they will play next year. The LET has yet to publish its 2019 schedule. It cost $1,450 to enter this year’s Q-School. Imagine getting your dream job and having no idea where, when and if you’ll be working? By low purses we’re talking between a low of $140,000 for the Jabra Ladies Open to $500,000 for the Hero Women’s Indian Open. The first four events on this year’s schedule were co-sanctioned with the Australian Ladies Professional Golf Tour. Two of those were worth just over $100,000. You don’t have to be a math genius to work out that traveling to, and accommodation in, Australia isn’t cheap. Even a top-10 finish in those events could leave players taking a loss on the week. Just to compare: even the lowest money tour events on the KLPGA have a total purse of 500 million won, which is roughly $480-500 K. And most of those are in Korea, which allows for low cost travel between events. And they have a lot more events, and most of the players have sponsors to boot. I have no idea how a player can survive on the LET as it now stands (unless you have an international rep, in which case you probably earn most of your cash off-tour anyway).
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Post by 18majors on Dec 10, 2018 17:11:24 GMT
No TV on Thursday and Friday?
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Post by awhson on Dec 10, 2018 17:21:10 GMT
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