Ohio Golf Journal May 2020

understand the value of investing in women’s golf and the tour has helped stimulate the rapidly expanding influence of women in the golf industry. The players can be proud of the LPGA that has grown from being on life support in 2010, to become the vibrant and profitable sports league it has become today. LPGA Tour Commissioner, Michael Whan has been driving the bus and under his leadership the tour should continue to grow long after COVID-19 becomes a bad memory. Whan talked about plans to restart the tour June 14 in Arkansas for theWalmartNW Arkansas Championship, to be followed by the KPMG PGA Championship. Those events have since been forced to be rescheduled and the tour now intends to begin in July at the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational. They will not end the season until the CME Globe Championship on December 20. Whan said, “I have already told the players, be prepared to play, we will have tournaments scheduled for every week through to December 20.” With the unprecedented revival of the LPGA Tour since Whan assumed command and his leadership, the LPGA Tour is as strong as it has ever been. Tournaments are strategically hosted in mid-markets that are golf starved. Sponsors