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LPGA Adds New Big-Money Event at TPC Boston
The LPGA is coming to Boston in 2024. With a field of 144 players competing for a $3.5 million purse, the new event, dubbed the FM Global Championship, will be played at TPC Boston from Aug. 29-Sep. 1.
The tournament’s big-money prize is the largest payout outside of the LPGA’s five major championships and upcoming CME Group Tour Championship.
Located 25 miles south of the city, TPC Boston is a premier Arnold Palmer design, later redesigned by Gil Hanse and Brad Faxon. It has hosted 17 PGA Tour events, including 13 FedEx Cup playoff events. Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau and Justin Thomas are just some of the PGA Tour players who have hoisted trophies at the New England venue.
“Boston is quickly becoming a dynamic home for women’s sports,” said LPGA Commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan. “We are thrilled to join this incredible movement, as the famed TPC Boston prepares to host the 2024 FM Global Championship, marking a historic return of the LPGA Tour to New England.”
The FM Global Championship will also feature a special event at Fenway Park surrounding the tournament.
The LPGA Tour is headed to Boston in 2024! ⛳️
— LPGA (@LPGA) October 27, 2023
The 2024 FM Global Championship will take place at TPC Boston from August 29th - September 1st and feature a $3.5 million purse! 👏
Join the ticket waitlist here! ➡️ https://t.co/EWqOAr01ox pic.twitter.com/PiaYzKmkle
With the help of Fenway Sports Management, FM Global will enter the sports space for the first time with the LPGA. Fenway Sports Group is a leading investor in Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s TMRW Sports, as it owns the Boston TGL team. (That indoor-simulator golf league will kick off in January.) FM Global and the LPGA have agreed to a five-year partnership, and Fenway and the LPGA formed a commercial partnership in August.
The new LPGA event will mark the first time the tour stops in the New England area since the 2004 U.S. Women’s Open at Orchards Golf Club in South Hadley, Mass.
Gabrielle Herzig is a Breaking and Trending News writer for Sports Illustrated Golf. Previously, she worked as a Golf Digest Contributing Editor, an NBC Sports Digital Editorial Intern, and a Production Runner for FOX Sports at the site of the 2018 U.S. Open. Gabrielle graduated as a Politics Major from Pomona College in Claremont, California, where she was a four-year member and senior-year captain of the Pomona-Pitzer women’s golf team. In her junior year, Gabrielle studied abroad in Scotland for three months, where she explored the Home of Golf by joining the Edinburgh University Golf Club.
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