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Impact of the Recession Cont'd - LPGA

If you want to see Natalie Gulbis or any of these other LPGA golfers play this year, I hope you have cable or satellite. There will only be a handful of LPGA tournaments broadcast on network television this year and one of them was last week - the Kraft Nabisco Championship, the first of the LPGA's four majors.

As a result of the current economic climate, the LPGA was unable to identify enough tournaments or find an umbrella sponsor, and talks the tour conducted with NBC and CBS did not progress past the exploratory stage. At the moment, 2010 looks even worse. So, if you want to see the LPGA, you better have the Golf Channel, because it looks like, save four to five tournaments a year, that will be your only option for the foreseeable future.

Full post as published by Sports Biz on April 15, 2009 (boomark / email).