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LPGA Commissioner Is Out In Response to Player Revolt

It's US Open Week on the LPGA tour and instead of the focus being on the players and the difficulty of the course and how treacherous the USGA has made the greens and how tall the USGA has let the rough grow, all of the focus has been on the fate of LPGA Commissioner Carolyn Bivens. Last week, key members of the tour met and signed a letter calling for Bivens' resignation in the wake of the tour's loss of seven tournaments since 2007. Among the players attending the meeting were several of the tour's biggest names, including Lorena Ochoa, Morgan Pressel, Natalie Gulbis, Cristie Kerr, Yani Tseng and Michelle Wie.

In one of the swiftest revolutions in history, the LPGA board this week concluded that it would buyout the remaining two years of Blevin's contract and Blevins has apparently accepted the buyout, reportedly at $500,000 per year. Now that tour politics has been settled perhaps we can all just enjoy golf for the balance of the week. After the first round of play, 21 year old, second year player Na Yeon Choi tops the leaderboard with 3 under 68. One stroke behind her are Number One ranked Lorena Ocho, 2007 Open winner Christie Kerr and qualifier Jean Reynolds. Another stroke back with a 70, came another South Korean Hee Young Park.

Full post as published by Sports Biz on July 10, 2009 (boomark / email).