The LPGA Tour is returning to New England in 2024 with a $3.5 million occasion at TPC Boston.
The FM International Championship will happen from August 29-September 1, with 144 gamers battling for the most important purse outdoors of the majors and tour championship.
The occasion in Norton, Mass., would be the first in New England for the reason that 2004 U.S. Girls’s Open at Orchards Golf Membership in South Hadley, Mass.
“Boston is shortly turning into a dynamic house for ladies’s sports activities,” LPGA commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan mentioned in a information launch Friday. “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.”
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The 2024 occasion kicks off a five-year partnership between FM International, a industrial property insurance coverage firm, and the LPGA Tour.
“We’re proud and excited to welcome the LPGA Tour again to Massachusetts,” Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey mentioned. “Sports activities play an vital position in shaping the lives of girls, advancing fairness and strengthening our communities. The chance to see ladies carry out on the highest ranges of the sport will convey large pleasure and enthusiasm.”
TPC Boston, situated 25 miles south of Boston, opened in 2002 with an unique format by Arnold Palmer, adopted by a 2007 redesign by Gil Hanse and Brad Faxon. The course has hosted 17 PGA Tour occasions.