TPC Boston to Host New $3.5M LPGA Event in 2024

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Bill Sangster
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The new LPGA event will be called the 2024 FM Global Championship and will be held at TPC Boston from Aug. 29 to Sept. 1. (Getty Images)

BOSTON, Mass. – Women’s professional golf has picked up another big money event.

The LPGA Tour and FM Global will stage a new tournament at TPC Boston that will feature a $3.5 million purse, the largest on the LPGA Tour outside of the majors and the tour championship.

The 72-hole event will be called the 2024 FM Global Championship, and it will be held at the Norton, Massachusetts, club from Aug. 29 to Sept. 1, 2024 with a field of 144 players.

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It will be a home game for LPGA star and Rockland (MA) native Megan Khang who recently captured her first victory after eight years on LPGA Tour. (Getty Images)

“Boston is quickly becoming a dynamic home for women’s sports,” LPGA Commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan said in a statement. “We are thrilled to join this incredible movement, as the famed TPC Boston prepares to host the 2024 FM Global Championship, marking a historic return of the LPGA Tour to New England.”

Boston will also be the home of a new Professional Women’s Hockey League team in 2024 and a new National Women’s Soccer League team in 2026.

“We can’t wait to team up with our newest partner, FM Global, to bring the world’s best female golfers to one of America’s great sports regions,” the commissioner said. “We are truly grateful to FM Global for its commitment to elevating the LPGA and to using our collective platform to inspire, empower and advance young girls and women, on and off the golf course.”

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TPC Boston has hosted 17 PGA Tour events including previous FedExCup Playoff events, is a par-71 layout that has been the recipient of accolades including being named as the No. 1 Private Golf Course in New England, by New England Golf Monthly.

FM Global is one of the world’s largest commercial property insurers.

The 2024 competition will start a five-year partnership between the two organizations, and it marks FM Global’s first major sports sponsorship. Fenway Sports Management helped secure FM Global’s sponsorship of the championship as part of a commercial alliance with the LPGA formed earlier this year.

Past LPGA Championships Held In Massachusetts (Since 1950)
1950 Eastern Women’s Open (Woodland Golf Club, Newton)
1954 U.S. Women’s Open (Salem Country Club, Peabody)
1958 Triangle Round Robin (Tedesco Country Club, Marblehead)
1960 U.S. Women’s Open (Worcester Country Club, Worcester)
1962–1966 Lady Carling Eastern Open (Pleasant Valley Country Club, Sutton)
1967–1968 LPGA Championship (Pleasant Valley Country Club, Sutton)
1969 Patty Berg Classic (Pleasant Valley Country Club, Sutton)
1970–1974 LPGA Championship (Pleasant Valley Country Club, Sutton)
1980-1990 Boston Five Classic (Ferncroft Country Club, Middleton)
1984 U.S. Women’s Open (Salem Country Club, Peabody)
1991-1997 LPGA Bay State Classic & PING/Welch’s Championship (Blue Hill Country Club, Canton)
1995-1998 Friendly’s Classic (Crestview Country Club, Agawam)
1999 areaWEB.COM Challenge (Pleasant Valley Country Club, Sutton)
2004 U.S. Women’s Open (Orchards Golf Club, South Hadley)
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Bill Sangster
Bill Sangster, a life-long golf aficionado and former Sergeant in Marines, moved to Cape Cod in 1974 where he raised his family while working as educator with the Sandwich School System for 23 years. With his Falmouth home adjacent to Paul Harney’s Golf Course, Bill spent many days learning and playing the game of golf. He was a member of White Cliffs Country Club and Sandwich Hollows Country on Cape Cod. In 2018 he continued his love for the game of golf by moving to “The Villages” in Florida. He now will admit to anyone who asks that he is addicted to the game of golf! Bill can be reached at sangsterbill33@gmail.com.

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