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[Golfweek.com RSS Feed] For all the Bivens bashing, the LPGA’s board of directors supports her unequivocally. (In June ’08, it extended her contract three years.) The directors say Bivens is one of the most misunderstood figures in golf, victimized mostly for setting a frenzied pace of change that has left many uncomfortable and bewildered.

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[Golfweek.com RSS Feed] Golf | LPGA: Riding out the storm: Title sponsorship of a PGA Tour event costs $6 million to $8 million annually (including a TV ad commitment of at least $3 million.) And with many contracts running five to six years, “You’re looking at a $30 million to $40 million commitment,” says Chris Higgs, the LPGA’s former chief operating officer who is co-managing director of golf for sports marketing firm Octagon. By comparison, an LPGA title sponsorship often can be purchased for $3 million annually, and at most, $5 million for events with network TV coverage, according to Higgs.

[Alpha Male Menswear | iTribe.Biz] Special report: The LPGA's agent of change - Golfweek.com | Alpha ...: The revelation dumbfounded, if not alarmed, Bivens, a golf outsider whose executive grooming in Fortune 100 environs made her a creature of control and accountability. Have the LPGA provide services at a deficit?

[Waggle Room] Carolyn Bivens on the State of the LPGA Tour - Waggle Room: The PGA Tour has maintained an almost exclusive US-based schedule and is still the Tour of record compared to the European Tour. Then again, the balance of players and talent in men's golf still skews heavily toward Americans - again, in aggregate, not necessarily by who is in the top 10. 

[Golfweek.com RSS Feed] Golf | A quiet success: Dressed in her customary all-black attire, Bivens looked the part playing alongside Helen Alfredsson and three other amateurs. She carried a bevy of Nike clubs in a Callaway bag marked “Commish.” Alfredsson, hands down one of the most entertaining smack-talkers on tour, kept things light with a constant stream of barbs aimed at her male playing partners.

[LPGA.com News & Entertainment] LPGA.com: "The LPGA has always done a great job with its players being involved; we just launched a program called 'Outside the Ropes.' There are a lot of things going on in the communities where we are playing right now that have more to do than with just what we do inside the ropes.

[naplesnews.com Stories: Sports] Tom Patri: LPGA Tour's summit not necessarily needed : Patri ...: I'm not sure the damage she has done will be soon repaired. In this economic setting, the LPGA Tour is walking a very dangerous tight rope for survival.

[LPGA.com News & Entertainment] LPGA.com: As executive director of the LPGA T&CP, Andrews will work with the LPGA T&CP Executive Committee to develop innovative programs that support the work of the LPGA and reflect the overall LPGA T&CP Strategic Action Plan. She will provide strategic vision and executive leadership for the LPGA T&CP, including its three strategic initiatives: to increase membership;

[The WorldGolf Wire - Daily golf-industry news updates from WorldGolf.com.] Golf for Beginners: Annika who? | World Golf News: Annika slipped into second place in the money rankings just below Ochoa and could not seem to climb back into contention. Not to take anything away from a golfer who had seventy-two career wins but Sorenstam was busy building outside interests too;

[Chicagoland Golf blog -- Phil Kosin's Worm Castings] LPGA Tour's Corning Classic will be terminated due to economy ...: Carolyn Bivens better start cutting prices or the LPGA will have about six events in this country and the rest in Asia and elsewhere. The players on all tours are going to have to learn to live with smaller purses, which Phil K predicted .

[StarBurbs Blog - The Official Blog of StarBurbs] StarBurbs Blog - The Official Blog of StarBurbs » Blog Archive ...: LPGA Deputy Commissioner Libba Galloway said the tour will “continue to assist” title sponsors that want to buy time on US network television. Fans should rest assured that the LPGA will attempt to revisit the network package deal later this year.

[Chicagoland Golf blog -- Phil Kosin's Worm Castings] Lack of sponsors nixes LPGA Tour network TV deal for 2010 ...: Despite efforts by Commissioner Carolyn Bivens to expand the brand, the LPGA Tour took a step backwards when it couldn't come up with the sponsors necessary to. Chicagoland Golf blog ”” Phil Kosin's Worm Castings .

[Divots Blog on syracuse.com] LPGA Corning Classic ending 31-year run - Divots Blog on syracuse.com: This is certainly a problem with the economy, but also a problem with the current regime at the LPGA who continually are driving an agenda to eliminate the smaller purses on the tour and tournaments like this one. They should be ashamed of themselves, and they should have done whatever it takes to keep this event, but my guess is that this is part of the LPGA agenda, and the tour and the players will suffer until Carolyn Bivens is ousted by her cronies on the LPGA Board!

[Chicagoland Golf blog -- Phil Kosin's Worm Castings] Bivens, LPGA Tour looking for sponsors in declining market ...: "Phil Kosin's Worm Castings" blog is written by Chicagoland Golf magazine editor and publisher Phil Kosin. It is intended to be an irreverent, mixed bag of great thoughts, major and minor scoops, war stories, opinions, rants, biases, .

[Oregon Golf News] Birdies and bogeys - Oregon Golf News: Bogey: The LPGA Tour, facing dwindling sponsorship, held a two-day summit this past weekend, parts of which sounded like they came right off "The Office," including a session-ending quiz show complete with a marching band. Tour commissioner Carolyn Bivens said: "The idea of the business of the LPGA should be that whatever we choose to do, we should do it exceptionally well.

[Golf for Beginners] Golf for Beginners - Annika who? Sybase looking to Ochoa, Wie to ...: During the 2008 Sybase Classic, Annika Sorenstam mentioned that she would be “stepping away” from competitive golf, careful not to use the “r” word. Carolyn Bivens, worried that fans might lose interest in the LPGA, .

[Impact: Pennsylvania Sports - PennLive.com] LPGA requiring mandatory meeting in May - The Fan Box with The ...: LPGA Senior VP/Tournament Operations & Player Services Jane Geddes told Show: "We're doing this to engage the players, help them understand the strategic direction of the LPGA, and focus on solidarity." Show wrote that tour officials "do not expect any significant announcements" at the summit, and one topic that "isn't on the agenda is the ill-fated plan to penalize members for inadequate English-speaking skills."

[Waggle Room] There's Going to Be an LPGA Tour Summit - Waggle Room: Gary Stevenson, who consults the LPGA on various initiatives as principal of Wasserman Media Group, will make a presentation on the business of sports and golf. Giff Breed, managing director of golf for Octagon, and Tim Marrin, who helps manage Procter &

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