This makes sense. The LPGA is adding a new tournament in Hawaii. It will help as players are traveling to tournaments in Asia. The Kapalua Resort Bay Course is a great course. It is fun to play and beautiful as most the courses are in Hawaii. This will be a great addition to the LPGA event schedule...
Kapalua Resort on the west end of Maui, site of the PGA Tour's season-opening tournament since 1999, will host a full-field LPGA Tour event starting in October 2008. The Kapalua LPGA Classic will be held on the Bay Course.
The date has not been determined, but commissioner Carolyn Bivens said it likely would be held the week before the LPGA Tour takes a three-week swing through South Korea, Thailand and Japan.
Bivens had talked recently about improving the flow of the LPGA schedule, and Kapalua was a start.
"We're getting closer," Bivens said from the HSBC Women's World Match Play in New York. "In September and October, we're on the West Coast, and it would be nice to have Hawaii on our way to and from Asia."
It also will be a full field of players, which will include Kraft Nabisco champion Morgan Pressel.
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