s FedEx Cup was still evolving. Adjustments were being made to its points system, and the tour had just crowned its third champion. That year saw the first European Tour season-long Race to Dubai, and the LPGA schedule was quickly unraveling after the resignation of then-commissioner Carolyn Bivens.
Date: Jun 07, 2016
Category: Sports
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LPGA extends Whans contract LPGA Tour Commissioner Mike Whan has agreed to a six-year contract extension through 2020. The 50-year-old Whan took over the tour in January 2010, replacing Carolyn Bivens. She resigned in July 2009 after a group of players wrote a letter to the board of directors cal
off the course, such as those associated with the LPGA for much of the past 10 years. The tours credibility took hits when former commissioner Carolyn Bivens was drawing the ire of golfers and tournament operators while Michelle Wie was being touted as a female Tiger Woods, without the victories.
It was a good job, a stable job with one of the strongest and most financially sound organizations in sports. And it was a big risk for Podany to leave for the LPGA Tour, which was reeling financially from the stubborn style of Carolyn Bivens, who was forced out after four years.
tournament returned to the tour in 2010. First played in 1986, it folded in 2006 after the previous organizers accused then-LPGA Tour commissioner Carolyn Bivens of providing three unsuitable dates for the 2007 event. Bivens resigned in July 2009 after a group of players wrote a letter to the tour'
Mike Whan, the LPGA Tour commissioner since 2010, has done a good job of righting the ship after his predecessor Carolyn Bivens alienated some players and sponsors with her inexperience in the golf industry. Still Whan has one of the most difficult jobs in golf. It's never been easy to market women'
measures success by a 39 percent increase in television viewers in the United States, and by 26 percent overall. While his predecessor, Carolyn Bivens, had a reputation of alienating sponsors with a hardline approach, the LPGA was able to renew eight of the nine tournament contracts that ended in 2011.
Notes:The tournament returned to the tour last year. First played in 1986, it folded in 2006 after the previous organizers accused then-LPGA Tour commissioner Carolyn Bivens of providing three unsuitable dates for the 2007 event. Bivens resigned in July 2009 after a group of players wrote a letter