by admin | Apr 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
Is the #OrangeHoodie movement coming to golf? On Wednesday, a tie-dye hoodie featuring the LPGA logo designed by Michelle Wie West and worn by Kent Bazemore and Damion Lee of the Golden State Warriors created quite the stir on social media. Wie West noted on Instagram...
by admin | Apr 15, 2021 | Representation, SEW, Uncategorized
When it was released in 2013, Augusta National had only just accepted its first two female members the previous year in former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and financier and philanthropist Darla Moore. Yet with the birth of two tournaments at Augusta before...
by admin | Apr 14, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Brooke Henderson was flying higher than a flock of Canadian geese at the end of 2019. She had just set the record for the most LPGA wins (nine) by a Canadian in only five years on tour and polished off her fourth straight season with multiple victories. At...
by admin | Apr 13, 2021 | Representation, SEW
One indisputable fact about The Year of the Global Pandemic is that normalcy was redefined. For women’s golf, that means for the first time the Olympics and the Solheim Cup are in the same year. That’s because, despite retaining the title Tokyo 2020, the Games were...
by admin | Apr 5, 2021 | Representation, SEW
If I said a golfer had a total driving distance for the week of 323 yards, you might ask how high that golfer finished on the leaderboard of the PGA Tour event he was playing. If I told you that 323 yards was for a golfer on the LPGA, you might not believe me. Read...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Pay Equity, SEW
The Rose Ladies Series has announced an expanded 2021 schedule, with 11 one-day events taking place across the UK over the coming months. Justin Rose and his wife, Kate, put their name and money towards a set of women’s events last year to give playing...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Now 31, a wife and a mother, Wie obviously is in a different place in her life, though in a comeback-bid postpartum it is a familiar place that has the potential to jumpstart it. The former U.S. Women’s Open champion shot a two-under-par 70 in the first round of the...
by admin | Apr 1, 2021 | Representation, SEW, Uncategorized
The year was 1932. The country was enduring the gravest crisis in American History, the Great Depression, yet during that heartache; the Olympics would offer an escape and the world would be introduced to Babe Didrikson. Or later known as Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Read...
by admin | Mar 29, 2021 | Representation, SEW
It’s been eight years since Amari Avery made her first “splash” — her word — in golf. A 2013 Netflix documentary on elite grade school golfers introduced an 8-year-old Avery cruising her Riverside, Calif., street on her bike, pink handlebar streamers blowing in the...
by admin | Mar 6, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Founded in 1950, the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is one of the longest-running women’s professional sports associations. But the LPGA has historically struggled with a lack of diversity and inclusion in the game. Read More
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