Media Relations For Beginners?

Now I know that credentialing bloggers to professional golf tournaments could result in a total nightmare for tournaments around the world, but this story about the denial of credentials for the Golf For Beginners bloggers over at travelgolf.com raises a few questions.

Here is a Tour whose press rooms serve as meditation chambers most days, turning away folks who, if you take the time to scroll their posts on the LPGA Tour, are friendly to the cause and doing it on a busy web site. 

And they want to cover your tour...a tour that struggles to get any coverage...a tour that considers itself cutting edge with their personal branding coaches and marketing-wiz for a Commissioner.