January 26 -- As LPGA Tour commissioner Michael Whan recently promised, the LPGA Tour has added another tournament to its 2010 schedule -- the $1.5 million Sybase Match Play Championship.
The event, slated for May 20-May 23 at Hamilton Farm Golf Club in Gladstone, NJ, will involve 64 of the top LPGA pros competing in match play, with the winner pocketing $375,000. Golf Channel will broadcast the event from round two through the finish.
“We’re pleased that Sybase has enabled the LPGA to bring a prestigious women’s golf event back to the Greater New York area,” Whan said in a statement.
In a recent Sports Illustrated interview, Whan pledged to add “a couple of events” to the tour’s 2010 schedule. It did not take long for him to come through with at least one such event.
Sybase Inc. partnered with the LPGA for several years as the title sponsor of the Sybase Classic from 2001 through 2009. Hamilton Farm, an elite and historic private course, hosted the 2005 and 2006 HSBC Women’s World Match Play Championship.
Golf Digest’s Ron Sirak noted on his Twitter account that the LPGA last staged a match-play event, in which two players go head-to-head, in 2007. The format “died after top 9 seeds lost on Friday,” Sirak tweeted.
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