A bad payer sponsor leads to the cancellation of a tournament …

Programmed from March 20 to 23, the FIR Hills Seri Pak was removed from the LPGA calendar. And the cause of this withdrawal is rather funny: the title sponsor did not set his subscriptions of 2024 and 2025 from the professional female circuit.

The LPGA will not go next March to Green Palos Golf Clubin the southern suburbs of Los Angeles (California). This cancellation of For Hills SERI parcel (2 million dollars of endowment) is not a consequence of the terrible fires which have ravaged several districts of the city of the west coast of the United States. And who were notably right for Genesis Invitational (PGA Tour), planned at Pacific Palisades and finally relocated to Torrey Pines.

As the press release from the US Female circuit indicates, ” The cancellation of the event on its current date was inevitable due to the fact that the event subscriber did not fulfill part of its payment obligations to the LPGA Tour for events of 2024 and 2025. »

« We apologize for the impact that this has on our players, as well as on our fans, partners and volunteers, underlined Liz Mooreinterim commissioner of the LPGA. We also want to express our sincere gratitude to staff and members of the Palos Verdes Golf Club, from Palos Verdes Estates and to the tournament operator, Outlyr, for their exceptional partnership and hospitality. »

Two weeks of hole in the start of the season calendar …

Fir Hills, an investment company based in Silicon Valley, had concluded a multi -year agreement last year with the LPGA as a sponsor of the tournament. South Korean legend Sir series had joined the team as an host of the event. Palos Verdes had already welcomed the tournament in 2023 but with a different sponsor: DIO Implant LA Open.

This cancellation causes a “hole” of two weeks in the 2025 calendar of the LPGA Tour before the Ford Championship Programmed from March 27 to 30 in Phoenix (Arizona). Recall that the season begins on January 30 in Orlando (Florida) for the traditional Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament (2 million dollars of endowment) grouping victorious players in the last two seasons. Among them, the Frenchwoman Céline Boutier !