LPGA declares TPC Boston 2024 occasion with historic $3.5M purse

On Friday, the LPGA Tour introduced a brand new occasion for its 2024 season at TPC Boston.

The FM International Championship might be held Aug. 29 to Sept. 1, that includes a 144-player discipline competing for $3.5 million.

This new occasion will characteristic one of many largest purses on the LPGA Tour and would be the highest non-major or the Tour Championship.

Much more intriguing is that the purse will enhance by $300k yearly beginning in 2025, per Sports activities Enterprise Journal reporter Josh Carpenter.

Subsequent 12 months will kick off a five-year partnership with FM International, a business insurance coverage agency. It’s simply one of many many issues the LPGA has achieved to proceed rising the sport.

The PGA Tour and LPGA will pair up for the inaugural Grant Thornton Invitational this December. 16 female and male pairings come collectively and compete in Naples, Fla.

This new event seems to be an ideal match for serving to develop the ladies’s sport as effectively.

“Boston is shortly changing into a dynamic dwelling for girls’s sports activities,” LPGA Commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan mentioned in a press launch. “We’re thrilled to affix this unimaginable motion because the famed TPC Boston prepares to host the 2024 FM International Championship, marking a historic return of the LPGA Tour to New England.”

Samaan understands what sort of foothold Boston has for girls’s sports activities and knew girls’s golf wanted to be there.

“With this occasion, the brand new Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League group, and the brand new Skilled Ladies’s Hockey League group, the momentum for girls’s sports activities within the Boston space is simple,” Samaan mentioned. “We will’t wait to group up with our latest accomplice, FM International, to deliver the world’s finest feminine golfers to one among America’s nice sports activities areas.”

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This event took place by way of the LPGA’s business alliance with Fenway Sports activities. It’s additionally FM International’s first main sports activities sponsorship. FM International will even assist packages to allow girls and the following era of scholars eyeing STEM careers. (science, expertise, engineering and arithmetic)

The LPGA returns to New England for the primary time for the reason that 2004 U.S. Ladies’s Open at Orchards Golf Membership in South Hadley, Mass. Nonetheless, it was even longer for the reason that Tour competed within the Boston space — 1997, when Liselotte Neumann gained the Welch’s Championship at Blue Hill Nation Membership in Canton.

“We’re proud and excited to welcome the LPGA Tour again to Massachusetts,” mentioned Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey. “Sports activities play an essential function in shaping the lives of ladies, advancing fairness and strengthening our communities. The chance to see girls carry out on the highest ranges of the sport will deliver super pleasure and enthusiasm.”

TPC Boston is a historic course featured 17 instances on the PGA Tour, together with the Deutsche Financial institution Championship, the Dell Applied sciences Championship and the Northern Belief.

Savannah Leigh Richardson is a golf employees author for SB Nation’s Taking part in Via. You possibly can observe her on Twitter @SportsGirlSL and Instagram @savannah_leigh_sports for extra golf protection. Make sure you try @_PlayingThrough too.