"I have no doubt that the LPGA has to streamline, but why do it now, before the new commissioner comes on?"

Reader Tombo raises a fair point about the LPGA with this comment posted today:

I received an e-mail from LPGA VP of Communications Connie Wilson last night. Her position has been eliminated, effective immediately, after 15 years.

I have no doubt that the LPGA has to streamline, but why do it now, before the new commissioner comes on? So he/she won't have to be the heavy?

It does seem odd not to let the new boss make some of these calls, particularly with a position like VP of Communications, unless it speaks to the severity of the LPGA's financial state.

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[Politically Incorrect]

The LPGA is bleeding cash with little coming in and the prospect for a revenue increase less than zero.

Tombo may not like the way Wilson got the message, but business is business and you can't run a business on hurt feelings.

[Farmingdale]

And you can't run a business without people that know how to run it.

Looks like The Rear Admiral is reprising her Red Cross act, God help the LPGA.

[Geoff]

PI - It just seems like these would be decisions you would leave to the next person, but perhaps the revenues are such that they don't have the option to wait.

[Tighthead]

Geoff maybe the next person is already in the chute, and they don't want to come in and get their hands bloody right away. Make it look like the current regime made the call.

[court]

You get rid of dead wood in the off season. You streamline before the new boss gets in so he/she (a) doesn't look like the bad guy for firing people as the first job, or (b) can just come in and hire who he/she wants without the extra red tape. You don't pay more people than you need when you don't have the money coming in to support them like you had before.

[LPGAFAN]

Many of the people they let go - should have been let go in my opinion; HOWEVER, they did cut a couple in the media department who had been there a long time and knew the department inside and out. Another media person quit - without being shoved. Losing 3 of your long time media people appears to me being more about the head of the media department trying to assure himself of a position with the new Commissioner.

I expect there is quite a power struggle going on within the LPGA to position themselves in the new administration. IF they spent that much time trying to position the LPGA in the golf market and promoting the LPGA - the LPGA might not be in the terrible position they are in. JMO