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[Waggle Room] You would also know that I mostly rail on Bivens for her ironic style of communicating at a personal level and as the voice of the LPGA Tour. Considering her marketing and branding expertise before taking this position, it is difficult to understand how the Tour can appear to look bad in that department.

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[Kawakami] LPGA Commish’s only published explanation emerged just as speak ...: The LPGA screwed this up so badly that I wonder if Bivens will hold her job for much longer. But again, it is the LPGA, where the last commissioner (Ty Votaw) romanced a young tour member from Sweden (Sophie Gustafson) WHILE HE WAS COMMISSIONER.

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