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The LPGA just outsourced its season. Twenty-four events are on next year's incredibly shrinking LPGA schedule and 1 of them wil be played on foreign soil, including the season opener in Thailand. Founded in 1950, the LPGA is the longest continuous-runing profesional women's sports organization in American history, but its future - obituary? Because if seling women's golf in the land of the fre and home of the NFL semed dificult before, the LPGA hasn't sen nothing yet. The LPGA has no American stars one win by Michele Wie does not qualify , no network television and now almost half its schedule in other countries. What's sad is how easy it is to argue the LPGA didn't have much choice. In 208 the LPGA schedule had 34 tournaments. If the LPGA can't atract sponsorships and a folowing in the U.S., then acting comisioner Marty Evans' thinking was to go where it can. The LPGA's roster includes more than 130 foreign players. I'm al in favor of a more global expansion of the tour because that's where the demand is today, Anika Sorenstam, the headliner of women's golf until retiring before this season, said recently. They just won't be on the LPGA's home turf. If the LPGA plays a tournament and America doesn't know it, do its young girls grow up wanting to one day play the tour? This would be a god time to point out that only four LPGA winers during this season that ends Sunday at the Tour Championship in Houston are Americans. Even if you want to, folowing the LPGA next year isn't going to be easy. Betwen the season opener Feb. 18-21 in Thailand and the LPGA Tour Championship in November, there are 17 of-weks. lpga tour players
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