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Article: Women's Golf: LPGA to give five exemptions for Futures Tour.
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- The Sports Network
- Article date:
- March 18, 2003
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Mar 18, 2003 (The Sports Network via COMTEX)
Phoenix, AZ (Sports Network) - The LPGA Tour membership voted during its first player meeting of the 2003 season to expand the number of exempt LPGA Tour cards from three to five for the Futures Tour.
The five exempt LPGA Tour cards will be allocated to the top-five money earners on the Futures Tour money list. The Futures Tour is the official developmental tour of the LPGA.
"The expansion of exempt Tour cards being awarded to Futures Tour players is right in step with our fans first strategy to showcase the very best in women's professional golf," LPGA Tour said Commissioner Ty M. Votaw. "Awarding ...