Tim McDonald - Latest Comments on LPGA Commissioner Carolyn Bivens should resign -- and fast

joe [Visitor] in response to: LPGA Commissioner Carolyn Bivens should resign -- and fast

joe [Visitor] — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:18:35 +0000

I have never known anyone to receive so much bad press, people who are involved in golf know she is screwing up the LPGA.They also know she has a water tight contract. What i want to know is who hired her? and why do americans have this mentality of promote someone to get rid of them so people like her are still around.

Military_Golfer [Visitor] in response to: LPGA Commissioner Carolyn Bivens should resign -- and fast

Military_Golfer [Visitor] — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 19:26:09 +0000

Bivens is there to make brutal and painful change to the LPGA that was a train rotting on the tracks. With change, heads roll, and people scream. Two years from now, people will love what she has done. As for her opinion on Wie, she knows she is too young to play full time. I am a Wie warrior and I know what child stardom does to kids. Wie does not need to join the LPGA full time. She should finish school first.

What if, she ends up in the rough one day, and trying a Tiger-esque shot she snaps her left wrist . . career over! She can't go back to high school!

Jim C [Visitor] in response to: LPGA Commissioner Carolyn Bivens should resign -- and fast

Jim C [Visitor] — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:59:20 +0000

The Evian is basically an LET event cosponsored by the LPGA. Bivens is not going to push her agenda that the LPGA is women's golf at that particular venue. Don't let anything she said there have any great impact on your opinion of her.

WieWarrior [Visitor] in response to: LPGA Commissioner Carolyn Bivens should resign -- and fast

WieWarrior [Visitor] — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:19:46 +0000

Until I saw Biven's interview on The Golf Channel during the Evian, I too was critical of her performance. Although she has certainly had some missteps, the media flap at Fields for example, what she said during the interview made a great impact on my opinion. She said all the right things and is attempting to do all the right things for the LPGA. So, I think she should be given some slack and time to do her thing.

JRC [Visitor] in response to: LPGA Commissioner Carolyn Bivens should resign -- and fast

JRC [Visitor] — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:37:47 +0000

Oh yeah....Nutz!

JRC [Visitor] in response to: LPGA Commissioner Carolyn Bivens should resign -- and fast

JRC [Visitor] — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:35:04 +0000

I’m looking forward to Tim's full article on this one. The arguments above raise a question in my mind that considers both Wie and Biven's approach to the game and it’s impact on golf. Is Golf, The Business (marketing, sex appeal, crisis, controversy, endorsements, ratings. SALES. etc...) greater than Golf, The Game (drama, competition, sportsmanship, tradition, life's lessons, etc...)? I consider this because by many of the comments in the aforementioned arguments, it seems that certain behavior, attitude, or techniques, like Bivens, hard-nosed hatchet lady bullying her way to promised results, or Wie’s precocious disregard for the more traditional approach to reaching professional champion status and bold pronouncement that her game is above that of LPGA field and better suited for the men’s tour, if experienced by any of us, would just out right hack us off big time.

If the actions of either of these two golfing world news-makers directly impacted us personally, would we be as likely to say...oh well, it’s good for the game, after all, everyone benefits form gate sales, she has a tough job, cut her some slack, she deserves to be #2 in the world? I suspect we would not.

Is this all good for the game? Will the ends justify the means? Is the marketing uber-hype surrounding young miss Wie good for her, her sponsors, tournament directors, or the game of golf?

I suspect, the winner is and will always be, Golf, the Business, marketing and dollars trump golf, the game. We should just learn to live with it.

Jay [Visitor] in response to: LPGA Commissioner Carolyn Bivens should resign -- and fast

Jay [Visitor] — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:19:26 +0000

I look forward to Timmy's 'full article' that he advertised as coming soon.

My opinion is that Bivens has not made a big enough blunder to be called for resignation. I can think of the media copy right issue, but she has backed off and settled the issue. Even JFK screwed up the Pig of bays at the start, so give her some slack.

Of course, her style of iron fist is not making people comfortable, but style should not be the main criteria for judging one's performance. It will be good if she can tone down to fit the family like LPGA, but it is not an absolute necessity. In fact, I think she is making people to be more serious and that is what might be needed to move the LPGA in the right right direction. (I am not saying it is, but have not seen any obvious negative effect either)

Joe Cool [Visitor] in response to: LPGA Commissioner Carolyn Bivens should resign -- and fast

Joe Cool [Visitor] — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 09:17:51 +0000

Bivens came from the cutthroat business environment where she was a "hatchet lady." Her "my way or the highway" is not going to last very long. Bye, bye Ms. Bivens...enjoy your new job on the turkey farm.