Liz Moore has taken her first major step as the Interim Commissioner of the LPGA Tour! The departure of Mollie Marcoux Samaan came as a shock to the LPGA Tour and the golf community. She truly pushed the LPGA Tour to new heights and stars like Nelly Korda, Lydia Ko, and Co. continue to benefit from it. Even though she left, she had empowered everyone in the office and on the field to continue growing the Tour to success.
A couple of days ago, Lydia Ko and others were in the headlines for being heavily involved in dealing with the LPGA Tour’s slow play issue. Partnering with the stand-in Commissioner Moore, they announced that a new slow play policy will be applied from March 27, 2025, in the Ford Championship. This will help regulate the slow players and keep the action on the field. And now, Liz Moore has taken another major step to improve the LPGA Tour.
Front Office Sports announced that Moore and the LPGA Tour have filed a complaint in the federal court against JoongAng Ilbo Co., Ltd. The Korean broadcast partners of the Tour and sponsors of the Fir Hills Seri Pak Championship have failed to fulfill their contractual obligations and make timely payments. The lawsuit comes after the LPGA Tour had canceled the event entirely “due to the event underwriter failing to fulfill any portion of its payment obligations to the LPGA Tour for the 2024 and 2025 events.”
On Tuesday, GolfWeek reported that Liz Moore sent a memo to the LPGA Tour stars explaining why they canceled the event. Moore said that the Tour took the step “to enforce a guarantee agreement with a JTBC affiliate to recover the unpaid amounts.”
It seems that Liz Moore and the LPGA Tour stars are shaking up the league in anticipation of the new full-time Commissioner.
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