LPGA commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan will step down on Jan. 9, finishing a tenure of remarkable expansion for pro girls’s golfing.
Below her management since 2021, the LPGA’s prize fund larger through greater than 90 p.c and athlete income soared to document highs. Moderate income for the highest 100 avid gamers just about doubled from $570,000 in 2021 to greater than $1 million in 2024.
“On behalf of the LPGA Board, I want to specific our trustworthy gratitude to Mollie for her remarkable willpower and keenness in advancing the Affiliation’s achieve and affect,” mentioned LPGA board chair John B. Veihmeyer. “Since becoming a member of the LPGA in 2021, Mollie has been instrumental in solidifying our place as the worldwide chief in girls’s skilled golfing, understanding document expansion in participant income and fan engagement.
“Mollie has been a steadfast recommend for fairness within the recreation and has labored tirelessly to increase alternatives for girls and women during the sport. I’m assured that the LPGA is well-positioned for endured luck as we construct at the expansion trajectory of the previous 3 and a part years of Mollie’s management. We deeply admire the lasting affect of Mollie’s many contributions.”
Marcoux Samaan served because the athletic director at Princeton from 2014-21 sooner than turning into the LPGA’s 9th commissioner in Would possibly 2021, succeeding Mike Whan.
“On this function, I have had the privilege of operating along a outstanding neighborhood of athletes, lecturers, companions, event operators, business colleagues, media, enthusiasts, volunteers, and body of workers who percentage a deep dedication to rising the LPGA and the use of the group’s distinctive platform to empower and advance girls and women,” Marcous Samaan mentioned.
“I’m happy with the remarkable expansion the LPGA has loved since I started my tenure. The method we now have constructed for expansion and affect along side the infrastructure we now have added to capitalize at the super alternative forward will serve the LPGA properly within the coming a long time. With the LPGA placed for endured expansion, it is time for me to have extra time to cheer on our 3 superb youngsters as they are living their goals whilst I proceed to pursue my interest for construction leaders, uniting communities and developing price via sports activities, specifically girls’s sports activities.”
Marcoux Samaan’s tenure wasn’t with out its demanding situations, together with a transportation snafu and resulting public-relations disaster on the Solheim Cup in September when enthusiasts in Virginia waited a number of hours for go back and forth buses. The LPGA additionally misplaced Cognizant because the name sponsor for the Founders Cup.
Liz Moore will grow to be the period in-between commissioner because the LPGA Government Management Group and board of administrators seek for a alternative for Marcoux Samaan.
–Box Degree Media
