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[About.com Golf] It's Official: Bivens Out as LPGA Commish: It may be tricky for the LPGA to hire a new qualified commissioner now that it is obvious that a dozen players–professional sportswomen who earn a living playing golf–can band together to oust the person leading the business corporation. As you say, Bivens secured many lucrative deals in her tenure (and increased available child care and health benefits for players, among other things).

[blogalihellocom] It's Official: Bivens Out as LPGA Commish « blogalihellocom: Dramatic action was necessary, and that action wound up being Bivens' ouster. Now, the LPGA must accept some temporary but perhaps large decreases in purse size - it must do whatever it takes, in other words - to field a full schedule .

[Oregon Golf News] Bivens walks away from a badly damaged LPGA - Oregon Golf News: Bivens' plan was to let many tournament contracts expire at the end of this year, thereby allowing her to uniformly implement new fee structures. That would have included charging tournaments a staging fee of $100,000, requiring events to pay the entire $68,000 for electronic scoreboards that the tour used to pay half of and to increase fees to air tournaments on television.

[Golfweek.com RSS Feed] Golf | Relationships doomed Bivens: “There are three main constituencies in a commissioner’s life: the press, the sponsor-tournament community and the player body,” said Chris Higgs, co-managing director of sports-marketing firm Octagon, which owns two LPGA events, and who formerly served as the LPGA’s chief operating officer. “As the leadership of the LPGA, you always have to have at least one of those constituents championing whatever cause you are effecting.

[Sports/AP] LPGA players hopeful about future under new leader | Washington ...: Carolyn Bivens resigned under pressure as LPGA commissioner this week, and Marsha Evans took over as an interim replacement. The tour's board of directors hopes to find a full-time commissioner by the end of the year.

[Rochesterhomepage.net News Headlines Feed] What LPGA Leadership Change Means For Rochester Tournament: So far tournament contract talks between Wegmans and the LPGA have been unsuccessful. Some say Bivens is to blame.

[Arkansas Democrat-Gazette - AP Feed] LPGA TOUR: Women’s Open champ to play in Rogers event: Reigning U.S. Women’s Open champion Eun-Hee Ji has committed to play in the P&G Beauty Northwest Arkansas Championship at Rogers’ Pinnacle Country Club in September.

[Welcome to Nice Ballz] Welcome to Nice Ballz: Dear (yet to be hired) LPGA Commish...: While you're at it, don't back away from the good things Bivens did with encouraging players to use twitter and other social media to connect with fans. Give to get: You're going to have to sweeten the pot for your corporate sponsors.

[Waggle Room] New LPGA Tournament Announced...Sort Of - Waggle Room: The Legends Tour, the official senior tour of the LPGA and comprised of the greatest female golfers of all time, will play its first major championship at Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club in November. The Legends Tour Open Championship will be contested on Innisbrook’s Island Course from November 20-22, 2009, and feature a $300,000 purse.

[Women Talk Sports | Latest News and Blog Posts] What's really happening with the LPGA? | Women Talk Sports | The ...: Certainly the economic downturn could not have been predicted when Bivens laid out her business plan for the LPGA.  However, when it was evident that companies were struggling and that was having a direct impact on their ability to maintain their sponsorships in the same manner as they had in the past, why wouldn’t there be a ”˜temporary hold’ on increasing licensing fees and prize purses until the economy improved?  Is Bivens the proverbial ”˜bull in the china shop’ just charging ahead and leaving turmoil and destruction in her wake?  Given the list of lost events and player unrest, it seems to this author it is time for new leadership at the top.

[Welcome to Nice Ballz] Welcome to Nice Ballz: Bivens Gets the Last Laugh: Bivens tried to benefit the Tour and its players by gaining more exposure and bigger purses, but it clearly came at the cost of relationships with sponsors. The LPGA has lost several tournament sponsors in the past two years and the players who called for her resignation believe more than a bad economy is to blame.

[Waggle Room] LPGA Commissioner Carolyn Bivens May Be Out the Door - Waggle Room: It's clear Bivens's hard-charging personal style has rubbed a lot of players and corporate types the wrong way, but you can't fault her original vision: raise purses, improve the pension and retirement benefits, and expand the tour's TV presence. The problem seems to be that Bivens has stuck to her hard-line negotiating even as the economy has imploded.

[The Sports Blog with The Patriot-News] As Eun Hee Ji wins the Women's U.S. Open, players and fans wonder ...: How does the troubled LPGA Tour take advantage of this successful, but exclusive, USGA event? If the reports are true, the tour and its board of directors will officially buyout the remaining 18 months in Commissioner Carolyn Bivens' contract this week.

[Golfweek.com RSS Feed] Golf | U.S. Women's Open Blog: Stanford said she wasn’t invited to the dinner held at the Jamie Farr event last week, but had heard about the letter players sent to the LPGA Board of Directors. So, would she have penned her name on the dotted line had she been given the chance?

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