Rachel Rohanna Helps Promote EPSON Tour With Help From Shaquille O’Neal Former Ohio State Golfer and LPGA Tour member Rachel Rohanna will be joined by NBA star Shaquille O’Neal in a series of online commercials promoting the EPSONTour (formerly the Symetra Tour). After giving birth to her daughter, Rachel lost her LPGA Tour card and had to go back to the EPSON Tour to requalify. She finished the year inside the top 10 money list which earned her a return to the 2022 LPGA Tour. O’Neal the former NBA superstar and television regular has 24 million followers on Instagram, 15.6 million on twitter and 9.2 million on Facebook as well as his own reality show called “Shaq Life.” Since announcing the entrance of EPSON as the main sponsor of the LPGA’s developmental tour, total purses have increased substantially and the cost of entry to events has been cut in half. Rohanna said, “It always blows my mind that people have never heard of the EPSON Tour. To have someone like Shaq with as many followers as he has and to actually be enthusiastic about it, I think it’s great for everyone. It’s going to be huge.” National Golf Foundation Reports Women Golfers Reach All Time High The National Golf Foundation (NGF) is reporting that the number of women golfers in this country has increased to almost 6.2 million. Over 600,000 women have taken up the game in the last two years An NGF spokesman said “participation from women and girls has seen a notable increase in the past few years.” “There hasn’t been this much optimism and new activity in the golf business since the turn of the century,” said Joe Beditz, NGF president and CEO. Numbers show that there were just over 25 million golfers in the United States in 2021, an increase from 24.8 million the prior year. Ohio Golf Journal
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