LOTS ‘O GOODIES

We’ve been away too long – there’s lots to catch up on!

GOLF CHANNEL TO PLACE MICS ON PLAYERS FOR REMAINING LPGA EVENTS

By Jon Show, Staff Writer, SportsBusiness Journal

Golf Channel will mic an LPGA player for each of its remaining seven events, beginning with Brittany Lincicome at the P&G Beauty NW Arkansas Championship. Golfers will wear the microphone during play and take part in interviews before their rounds and at the turn. LPGA and Golf Channel, which begin a new 10-year TV deal in January, first mic’d a player and conducted at-the-turn interviews during the McDonald’s LPGA Championship in June. Golf Channel has experimented with at-the-turn interviews on the Nationwide Tour, and Champions Tour players regularly take part in live on-course interviews.

GOING GREEN

The Deutsche Bank Championship announced that it’s event was carbon neutral for the second year in a row, continuing its status as the first and only carbon neutral tournament on the PGA Tour. The ‘09 event for the first time  featured a solar power installation and a new sustainability tent (Deutsche Bank Championship).

TWO UPCOMING LPGA TOURNAMENTS TO SEE $200,000 REDUCTIONS IN PURSES

The LPGA has told players the purse for both the September 24-27 CVS/pharmacy LPGA Challenge and the October 1-4 Navistar LPGA Classic “will be reduced $200,000 this year,” trimming the total prize money for the tournaments to $1.1M and $1.3M, respectively. An LPGA exec said that the players were in “unanimous agreement with the move.” The cut follows a reduction of the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic purse from $1.4M this year to $1M in ’10 (GOLFDIGEST.com, 9/14).

IT’S A TWEET… IN A BUBBLE!

If you haven’t seen them yet, be sure to check out our Bubble Tweets!  You can view them HERE and HERE. We used them to promote our Faceboook Fan Page Contest and have received more than 100 combined views! Sean Daugherty won a $100 Atlantic Golf gift card just for posting a comment on our fan page. CONGRATS!