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LPGA's 2010 schedule to carry just 23 events

SUGAR LAND, Texas -- The 2010 LPGA season will begin in Thailand on Feb. 18 and end at the LPGA Tour Championship Nov. 21, sources tell GolfDigest.com. There are 23 events on the schedule, which will be released Wednesday morning, down from 34 in 2008 ...

From RON SIRAK, ESPN,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: McDonald's,  Sybase, Inc.,  Carolyn Bivens,  Annika Sorenstam,  Michelle Wie

A Five-Step Plan To Revive The LPGA

On Jan. 22, the LPGA will mark the 60th anniversary of its first tournament winner: amateur Polly Riley, whose 295 beat Louise Suggs by five strokes in the Tampa Open. The new tour played 14 tournaments in 1950 and with a small number of bankable stars ...

From RON SIRAK, Golf Digest,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: PGA,  Golf Channel,  Louise Suggs,  Patty Berg,  FedEx

Patchwork LPGA Schedule For 2010

SUGAR LAND, Texas -- The 2010 LPGA season will begin in Thailand Feb. 18 and end at the LPGA Tour Championship Nov. 21, sources tell GolfDigest.com. There are 23 events on the schedule that will be released Wednesday morning, down from 34 in 2008 and 27 ...

From RON SIRAK, Golf Digest,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: McDonald's,  Sybase, Inc.,  Carolyn Bivens

No Stopping Now

What a long, strange trip it's been. Nearly eight years after her first LPGA tournament, six years after missing the cut by one stroke in the Sony Open on the PGA Tour as a 14-year-old and more than four years after turning pro, Michelle Wie won the ...

From RON SIRAK, Golf Digest,  15 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Jiyai Shin,  Sony,  PGA,  Michelle Wie,  Lorena Ochoa

Barron Awaits Ruling

A judge for the U.S. District Court Western District of Tennessee in Memphis heard three-and-a-half hours of testimony Friday in the case of Stephen Douglas Barron vs. the PGA Tour Inc. and said he would have a ruling on a temporary restraining order ...

From RON SIRAK, Golf Digest,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: PGA

On Board For An Off-Season

Sometimes good things come out of bad situations. The truly innovative organizations get this, grasping the fact that in challenge resides opportunity. So the silver lining in the dark economic cloud that has hung over the world for more than a year is ...

From RON SIRAK, Golf Digest,  10 Nov 2009
Related Topics: NFL,  FedEx,  HSBC,  Phil Mickelson,  Ernie Els

Grillroom: Lori Garbacz

Lori Garbacz (GAR-ba-see) played the LPGA from 1979-95, winning the 1989 Circle K Tucson Open. At the 1991 U.S. Women's Open she protested slow play by calling Domino's on No. 14 and having a pizza delivered to the 17th tee. Garbacz, 51, still marches ...

From RON SIRAK, Golf Digest,  4 Nov 2009

Dwight Eisenhower: Founding Father

Among the many societal impacts of World War II -- the commingling of jazz, blues, folk, country and swing in the cultural potpourri of the barracks produced rock 'n' roll, for example -- was the fact that a military economy produced a more industrial ...

From RON SIRAK, Golf Digest,  2 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Arnold Palmer,  Dwight D. Eisenhower,  Milton Berle,  Bobby Jones (baseball),  Branch Rickey

Sirak: Michael Whan approaches LPGA top job with eyes wide open

NEW YORK -- When the phone rang, it was not so much an omen as it was a Monty Pythonesque bit of absurdist theater summing up the kind of year it's been for the LPGA, if not the entire four-year reign of Carolyn Bivens. Just as LPGA board of directors ...

From RON SIRAK, ESPN,  28 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Carolyn Bivens,  Juli Inkster,  Helen Alfredsson,  Procter & Gamble Company,  Britesmile, Inc.

Sirak: Eyes Wide Open

NEW YORK -- When the phone rang, it was not so much an omen as it was a Monty Pythonesque bit of absurdist theater summing up the kind of year it's been for the LPGA, if not the entire four-year reign of Carolyn Bivens. Just as LPGA board of directors ...

From RON SIRAK, Golf Digest,  28 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Carolyn Bivens,  Juli Inkster,  Helen Alfredsson,  Procter & Gamble Company,  Britesmile, Inc.

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