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2009: Thankfully, Golf's Year of What Might Have Been
Given that we're closing in on the end of 2009 and the decade of the 2000s, there have been and will be quite a number of retrospective pieces on the last decade in golf. Best years, shots, and memories are generally the topics. Some recall the worst chokejobs or things that most superstitious...
You Should Apply To Become LPGA Commissioner
No, really, you should. And the LPGA Tour encourages you to do so. Take a look at their website. I mean, why make a suggestion when you can apply? But, if you are going to make suggestions, the people after the jump are NOT eligible to be LPGA Commissioner. Count Chocula: He's a...
UPDATE: Who Wants to Be the Next LPGA Tour Commissioner?
ABC is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Regis Philbin saving their network by having an eleven night reprisal of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? for the next couple of weeks. As a game show junkie, I'm pretty excited about that. I'm also excited to see the results of the search for the next...
The 19th Hole Golf Show - 7/16/09 - The Open, Jon Show, & Marty Hackel
After a two week hiatus, The 19th Hole Golf Show podcast is back! We have a great program for you this Open Championship week: Ryan talks about Tom Watson, Ben Curtis, & Tiger Woods to review round one of the Open at Turnberry. SBJ's golf reporter Jon Show joins to discuss the LPGA's future...
The LPGA Tour Has Been Here Before: The Story of Charlie Mechem
It was 1991. The LPGA Tour had just fired its Commissioner, William Blue, after less than two years on the job. Blue, like now-gone Commissioner Carolyn Bivens, had worked in his previous job as a marketing executive with no sports experience. His "heavy-handed" approach - a label applied often...
News Flash: Asian Players DON'T Want to Kill the LPGA Tour
In 2003, Australian LPGA sexpot Jan Stephenson made the now infamous comment to Golf Magazine that "Asians are killing our tour [with] their lack of emotion, their refusal to speak English." Now-ousted LPGA Tour Commissioner Carolyn Bivens saw the value in players learning some proficiency in...
Bivens Resignation Official: Evans Interim Commissioner
The LPGA announced this afternoon that Carolyn Bivens had resigned and that Board of Directors member Marsha Evans would become Interim Commissioner, both effective immediately. Evans has been a Board member since the beginning of this year and was a member of the Commissioner's Advisory Council...
LPGA Announces Marsha Evans as Acting Commissioner
Golf.com's Anne Skezer is reporting that LPGA Board of Director member, Rear Admiral Marsha Evans, has been named interim commissioner of the Tour. Further, Annika Sorenstam will act as a board advisor. "Obviously, I will do everything possible to ensure that the LPGA remains the pre-eminent...
Search for Next LPGA Tour Commissioner Will Make California Recall Look Sane
Yesterday, Golf World confirmed what we have been saying here - courtesy of Life on Tour's Larry - for over a week now: Carolyn Bivens is out as LPGA Tour Commissioner. As Dave Seanor first noted and then Fanhouse's Greg Couch basically rewrote, the LPGA Tour's problems don't end (but may well...
Report: Bivens Is Out
As promised, I've waited for a few more details to come in about the "player revolt". I was also waiting to get home from vacation so I could catch up on those details properly. With the ultimate detail just released by Golfworld's Beth Ann Baldry that Bivens is already out, here's what I've been...
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