Lengthy utilized by the PGA Tour, TPC Boston will now host the LPGA Tour beginning in 2024.
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After 16 years because the host of PGA Tour playoff events, TPC Boston has gone largely unused by the professional recreation lately, however that every one modified Friday. The Norton, Mass. monitor has been tabbed because the host venue for one of many largest purses on the LPGA Tour.
TPC Boston will now turn into the annual web site of the FM International Championship, a brand new occasion starting in 2024. With a handbag of $3.5 million, it instantly leaps towards the entrance of the pack for the LPGA Tour, providing the largest purse of any non-major, non Tour championship occasion.
“Boston is shortly turning into a dynamic dwelling for ladies’s sports activities,” LPGA Commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan stated. “We’re thrilled to affix this unimaginable motion, because the famed TPC Boston prepares to host the 2024 FM International Championship, marking a historic return of the LPGA Tour to New England. With this occasion, the brand new Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League staff and the brand new Skilled Girls’s Hockey League staff, the momentum for ladies’s sports activities within the Boston space is simple.”
The primary iteration of the FM International Championship takes an fascinating place within the calendar, too: late August/early September. That’s when the course appeared to be in essentially the most excellent form when it hosted PGA Tour occasions, so why change? It’ll characteristic proper because the PGA Tour season involves a detailed and the LPGA Tour’s Race to the CME Globe ratchets up.
The 5-year sponsorship is FM’s first main sponsorship of a sports activities entity, and was secured with the assistance of Fenway Sports activities Administration, a department of Fenway Sports activities Group, one of many main personal fairness corporations investing in sports activities. Additionally one of many main entities investing in golf. FSG is the proprietor of the forthcoming Boston staff in Tiger Woods’ TGL, a mixed-reality golf tour, and has additionally reportedly made a bid for investment within the PGA Tour itself.
Fenway Sports activities Administration was concerned with these PGA Tour playoff occasions, and is more likely to be far more concerned with LPGA gross sales and advertising and marketing transferring ahead. The model signed an settlement with the LPGA Tour in August with the objective of “fostering variety, growing funding within the sport and unlocking a number of recent alternatives for the LPGA and its athletes.”
