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First, the LPGA time-honored Lydia Ko's petition for membership. No big surprise there, despite the fact that I changed into a piece amazed that Whan determined at the begin of the year as opposed to her seventeenth birthday as he did with Lexi. But his reasoning made feel; here's the announcement (as a minimum, all of the assertion that became published on LPGA.Com:
After reviewing Lydia Ko?S petition, I actually have granted her LPGA Tour membership starting on the begin of the 2014 season. This choice ensures that Lydia can attend all of our LPGA rookie development classes that take place within the early part of the year.
As for her genuine playing status for the 2014 season, Lydia will compete out of class 7 at the 2014 LPGA Priority List. Category 7 is reserved for players who've won an reliable LPGA event as a non-member inside the previous calendar 12 months. We are searching ahead to having Lydia as a full-time member for the 2014 season. It isn't often that the LPGA welcomes a rookie who is already a returned-to-lower back LPGA Tour champion.As I said, no big surprise. You can read the statement and response here (the photo came from this link) and you can find the transcript of Lydia's presser after the announcement here.
Next, there has been the statement that EA Sports and Tiger have ended their partnership, making Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2014 the remaining installment of the video game franchise. It seems that declining income are a component (even though that turned into by no means said) but Daryl Holt of EA stated that they intend to create a few new video games with the PGA Tour. You can read about that scenario here.
Perhaps one of the more interesting developments -- one that may become more newsworthy as 2014 progresses -- is the R&A's decision to eliminate the 36-hole International Final Qualifier into the Open Championship. Instead, it will be replaced with an "Open Qualifying Series" that will parcel out roughly 44 spots to players who meet certain qualifications at 14 different events. You can read more of the details here, and that article includes a link to another article about the change.
Two other notes of interest to some of you... Colin Smith tweeted me about his Kickstarter campaign. For those of you who haven't heard of it before, Kickstarter is a new grassroots way for people to raise funds for projects they think people will be interested in. (In this case, you can pledge as little as $1 to help fund the project, and he's well on his way toward his $10,000 goal.) Colin has designed something he calls the Green Golf Buckle -- a belt buckle that keeps your divot tool and ball marker handy. It's even gaining some attention from the big boys -- Ben Crane tweeted Colin about it. You can visit his Kickstarter site here for more details.
Finally I got an email from Golf Galaxy that they're opening two new flagship stores this weekend in Chesterfield, MO and Henderson (Las Vegas), NV. The links have all the details about the events. Former Detroit Lions running back Barry Sanders will be at the Chesterfield store while Natalie Gulbis and NFL Hall of Famer Marcus Allen will be at the Henderson store. I mention these openings because the Golf Galaxy stores around here -- even the smaller ones -- have impressed me with how knowledgeable their clubfitters are.
I think that's everything. There truly isn't an off-season in golf anymore, is there?
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