The LET and LPGA Make a Deal

It likely comes as no wonder that the LET gamers authorized the LPGA's offer to group up and pool their assets to get the LET returned on its feet.

I'm going to present you hyperlinks to a few of the articles that appeared Tuesday after the LET player meeting. Each article has a few barely distinct information to add and none of them is very lengthy, so that you may want to take a look at all three.

• golfchannel.com article by Randall Mell
• golfdigest.com article by Keely Levins
• usatoday.com article from the Associated Press

We'll be learning more in the coming weeks as more plans become public, but I wanted to bring some quotes from the various articles to your attention.

I'll begin with Randall Mell's.

The first quote comes from LET Board Chair Marta Figueras-Dotti:

?At its basis, this joint project is set developing possibilities for our individuals to pursue their passion, and their careers as expert athletes. In simply the 60 days when you consider that we started out operating in this joint project, we've already visible a dramatic effect on our LET Tour agenda ? An effect that will be a positive end result for certainly all of our LET Members.?

Another comes from Mike Whan, and I suspect it's the one that may mean the most to LET fans:

Though it?S a ?50-50 joint task,? Whan stated earlier than leaving for Spain that the LPGA?S stake in the enterprise might have limits.

“All proceeds stay in Europe, can't take any dollars out,” Whan said. “We can put money into the LET, but we can't take money back out, which I asked my board to support. I want to make sure the European Tour players know that this is not some American growth strategy.” The USA Today article also adds this quote from Whan:

?As I said to our board, I don?T see a boundary or a fence around that statement,? Whan stated. ?Our founders could have done it in the event that they could have had this ability, so why shouldn?T we??

Mell also mentions that news of the deal has already brought five new events to the LET for 2020, as well as a new sponsor for their Order of Merit. (The Figueras-Dotti quote clearly refers to this.)

And the Levins article provides this tempting tidbit:

The LET has been struggling with handbag size and wide variety of activities on its time table for numerous years. The partnership with the LPGA will address the ones problems in addition to offer a straighter line of access to the LPGA Tour for high performers. That plan isn't but in place, but LPGA Commissioner Mike Whan said that the plan would be for pinnacle gamers from the LET to get spots in Q-Series, the final stage of LPGA Q-School.

This certainly sounds like the kind of partnership the LET needs to get back on its feet. And with Whan's new long term LPGA contract already inked, the future is looking up for women's golf in Europe.