The Last Hurrah: Dinah Shore's Legacy And The LPGA Tour's First Major - Dog Leg News

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Tom Edrington spent the first 10 years of his misguided youth as a sports writer for the Tampa Tribune. His career brought him face to face with many of sports greatest stars -- Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Muhammad Ali, Don Shula, countless Hall of Fame NFL stars, more PGA Tour players than he can count. In 1980 he was honored by the Golf Writers Association of America for writing the best news story that year, his coverage of Jack Nicklaus' U.S. Open victory at Baltusrol. Today, 36 years later, golf is still a great part of his life, thanks to competitive playing days and the wonderful people he has met on this fabulous journey.

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    baxter cepeda

    U know That won’t happen Tom. Dinah stays in Mission Hills. But I’m with you it’s one of too many things to count that the ladies are giving up for more money, which btw is nothing compared to what the usga is doing.

    Still I just don’t get why Chevron would pay so much to buy this recognizable major, only to turn it into another Evian somewhere in TexAs.

    I get the tour has to follow the money, but as many said with Whan and Evian, the ladies tour equally has to stick to its guns and not sell out to every sponsor that bumps up purses.

    I will feel a whole lot better when we know the ladies are going to be playing somewhere great. Mission Hills is a fine course, not great, but the poppy’s pond tradition alone is just such a huge tradition to lose. Especially still not knowing for what.

    The only good thing about not knowing where they are going is maybe they come to their senses and stay.

    Because With all due respect to the usga, pga, rna, the two most iconic celebrations in golf are a green jacket for men and a Bath robe —after a leap into poppy’s pond —for the women.

    It’s nowhere near the same level as The Masters moving and eliminating green jackets, but for those of us who love women’s golf, this is not just bittersweet, it’s extremely questionable.

    Time will tell. But time is not helping Evian become more of a major whatsoever. Imho each every year Evian feels even less like a major then when Whan first sold out. The fear is something similar will happen for the Dinah that it won’t feel like a major anymore. But the good news in this case is they can always go back to what does feel like a major.

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