LPGA's Olympic-Style Event Sounding Innovative And Fun

Randall Mell reports on the details emerging on the LPGA's planned "Olympic-style" event.

The course: Rich Harvest Farms. The date: July.The possible sponsor: Navistar.

More importantly, the format will give us something fresh and fun:

The new event is designed to build on the patriotic excitement generated in the Solheim Cup and provide opportunities for players beyond those in Europe and the United States. Sources say the plan most embraced by the LPGA calls for at least eight nations to compete with four-woman teams in an undetermined match-play style format. The plans, still being reviewed, would use a Rolex World rankings formula at the end of 2011 to determine which eight nations would qualify for the competition. Once the nations are determined, the players would earn their way onto teams off either the rankings or the LPGA money list with player qualifying extending into the first half of 2012.