LPGA in dire straights!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

While drinking my coffee this morning and reading about the world of golf,I came across a few interesting articles on the Golf Channel Site, http://www.thegolfchannel.com/shag-bag/ now after reading these it pretty much confirms what I have been hearing about the LPGA and it's so called "situation" and here are some thoughts. The Corning Classic a staple on the tour for so so long pulls the plug on it's tournament. Now, if you have ever been to corning it's a pretty small place and the LPGA event is all they have. It allows hotels and motels and restaurants to stay open year round rather than close during the winter. It also makes up a huge percentage of the communities tourist revenue. The Company footing the bill to bring the LPGA to Corning is a "stead fast all American, something out of nothing support it's community" type company that is so lacking in our country today. It is also on very solid financial footing!

So you can understand why those of us who love the LPGA needed more information about this. I mean, of all the tournaments to fail to renew this would be the very last because of the life this tournament breathes into the community. So,I looked deeper, Yes Carolyn Bivens was a terrible tyrant towards companies trying to increase their costs two and three times to sponsor a tournament. Lying to long time partners of the tour and TV executives. This however is only the tip of the iceberg! The LPGA is in such disarray that the Corining Classic people have gave a resounding NO to the LPGA. They will not even consider coming back until they get their house in order. Now things have become clear, the other tournaments that have already pulled out saw this also and didn't have the long standing connections with the LPGA so they pulled the plug early where the Corning Classic much like the Jaime Farr in Toledo have been staples on the tour for so long it was hard for them to leave the LPGA even in times of trouble. The trouble, however has gotten substantial. The LPGA is losing control of it's tour and it's finances. The players now run the tour, but none or few have educations and many are teenagers. Yes, they were smart in getting Bivens to leave but she had done alot of damage. You don't repair your broken fences with nudity, players being rude to fans, short skirts and big smiles.
What I'm saying is that Golf is by invention a conservative game, It requires, sportsmanship, pride, and integrity! The LPGA has lost it's integrity! You can't ask Companies grounded in fair and honest business practices to sponsor an event for a organization with no integrity. Corning and Jaimie Farr are institutions who came to golf as a means of promoting their long standing and fair and honest relationship with their respective customers and communities. Not to sponsor an organization so it's players can pose nude. It won't matter how tasteful the ESPN article is. It is not in the best interest of any of the sponsors today.

At this rate we will soon see the the "PLAYBOY LPGA Classic "and the "Nuva Ring LPGA Tournament" because no legitimate American company will be willing to lend it's name to a Tour who lacks INTEGRITY!

The LPGA needs to learn that any publicity is good publicity but only if your an out of work movie star! Integrity is everything in sports especially this "Grand Ole Game" and when you don't have any you will always lose!!!!!!!!