LPGA Tour Adds 4 Stops In '14, More Live Coverage

Ron Sirak breaks down the newly announced LPGA schedule, says 90% of next year's events will be televised live, and notes this growth in just two years:

After bottoming out in 2011 at 23 events following the perfect storm of Carolyn Bivens and the Great Recession, the LPGA will play 32 official events next year, plus the International Crown.

A key venue upgrade comes for the Wegman's LPGA Championship, which moves from early June to Aug. 14-17 and relocates to a restored Donald Ross in Rochester, Monroe CC.

Earlier in the week, Ron Kroichick revealed a new San Francisco event with a catchy name and exclusive venue.

The Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic (gotta say, that’s a catchy name) will be played at Lake Merced Golf Club in Daly City on April 24-27. It will be the first LPGA event in the Bay Area since October 2010, when the fifth and final Longs-turned-CVS Challenge was held at Blackhawk Country Club in Danville.

Commissioner Mike Whan talked with Golf Channel about the impressive news of adding four events and the thinking behind a compelling format for the International Crown at Caves Valley in Maryland.
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