Honesty in Golf but not in the LPGA

The Grand Ole Game, Beauty Personified, Golf has stood the test of time and shown it's teeth through war and tragedy. It's my contention that at it's current state, the LPGA is hurting golf.

Don't misunderstand me please, when I say the LPGA I mean the administrative branch of womens professional golf. Not the players, not the soldiers who can't help but be the victims of the tour they have joined under the assumption that their best interests would always be considered paramount.

Honesty and honor are what golf is based on! To be the LPGA and violate both of those corner stones of golf is unthinkable and obviously unmaintainable. When you have to sink to self reporting your game in ways that are not true and intentionally mislead the very people you want to patronize your sport is not good in any arena but in golf it;s sacrilege. You can't announce record crowds at tournaments when the crowds were not half of what they have been in years past. You can't say this course is playing at 6,400 yards when it's playing at 6,000 yards. You can't say your the world premier womens golf tour when you have exempt woman playing week in and week out who have or would carry double digit handicaps. Yet the LPGA has thrown the rules of golf out the window and look where it has landed them.
You have encouraged players to use twitter to be closer to the fans. Huge mistake, follow one of the players you admire on twitter and you will see how lives with out meaning or perspective are lived. I'm serious follow Morgan Pressel or Christina Kim two frequent tweeters and you will realize that these girls who are fan favorites just about anywhere really have nothing but golf and lack the education to excel in any other field other than restaurant critic. I grant you, both are young and pleasant but a little reading between the lines and you will feel sorry for them. Deciding between Gucci or Jimmy Choo boots is a major life decision for them and what to pack for the next trip after they have done it hundreds of times they still are no better at it and fret over it.

Allowing players who represent a game of time honored esteem such as golf to pose nude is a huge mistake. Golf does not need or want that kind of publicity. The LPGA, does though! At this point it surprises me they are not having their golfers play in thong bikini's but it will happen soon. You see the quality of golf on the LPGA has decreased to the point that marketing the players is the only way the LPGA can stay afloat. Much like NASCAR the product is really irrelevant but the drivers is where they spend their marketing dollars because it's the only thing that's different that can be marketed and the LPGA is finding that by not allowing the best players to play each week there is really no difference in the golf so you need to market the players and figures and breasts and butts anything but the golf because the golf is poor and the courses have been made so easy.

After this last tournament and the misleading info used by the LPGA and the terrible way in which one of the players treated what I know to be her biggest fan and the meagerness of the course set up turning the entire game into a putting competition I have decided that there is no reason to keep wasting time on the LPGA when the better golfers and better golf are played elsewhere. There was a time when I loved the LPGA and what it stood for but now it's making a mockery of the very game I hold above all others.