Women's golf domestic tour 2 games reduced next season Influenced by Tokyo Olympics December 18th 6:07

Domestic tours for women's golf next season will be held in 37 games, 2 games less than this season, partly because of the Tokyo Olympics.

In the Tokyo Olympics, boys and girls will be golfing from July 30th to August 8th, but the Japan Women's Professional Golf Association has decided not to conduct domestic tours during this period. It was revealed that one of the two games that overlap each other will be implemented one week ahead of time and that another game will be suspended.

In addition, one game was canceled due to withdrawal of the sponsor, and next season's domestic tour will be held in 37 games, two games less than that.

As a result, the total prize money was 3,935 million yen, approximately 17.2 million yen less than this season.

Hiromi Kobayashi, chairman of the Japan Women's Professional Golf Association, said, “This is the next season so that interest will not be diverged by overlapping the dates of the golf tournament held at the Tokyo Olympics and the domestic tour. However, as the popularity of the tour has increased due to the success of Hyoko Shibuno, I want to continue to excite it. "