{"id":21301,"date":"2017-05-02T11:06:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T11:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/to-play-on-the-lpga-tour-you-have-to-have-a-lot-of-followers-on-social-media\/"},"modified":"2017-05-02T11:06:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T11:06:16","slug":"to-play-on-the-lpga-tour-you-have-to-have-a-lot-of-followers-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/to-play-on-the-lpga-tour-you-have-to-have-a-lot-of-followers-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"To play on the LPGA Tour you have to have a lot of followers on social media!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was bound to happen. In recent months we have had innovative formats for tournaments, a return to team competition and discussions about how to overcome golf\u2019s somewhat outdated image, especially among the younger population. <\/p>\n

Now the LPGA Tour, the American Women\u2019s Tour, has taken its already strong commitment to\u00a0social media promotion to a new level by awarding its latest sponsor exemption at the Shoprite Classic (June 2-4 in Galloway, N.J.) to one of the\u00a0four\u00a0players who achieve the most social media votes from\u00a0golf fans.<\/p>\n

The tournament worked with MVP Index, a media tracking company founded by Jordan Spieth\u2019s father, to determine the four candidates based on their popularity: Blair O\u2019Neal, Sharmila Nicollet, Carly Booth and Susana Benavides.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Neal is a Golf Channel host and former winner of the TV show Big Break; Nicollet, an Indian golfer who has more than 350,000 followers on\u00a0Twitter and played an exhibition match with Tiger Woods in India in 2014; Scotland\u2019s\u00a0Booth has won twice on the Ladies European Tour; and\u00a0Benavides, the only Bolivian golfer to have played\u00a0an LPGA Tour tournament so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was bound to happen. In recent months we have had innovative formats for tournaments, a return to team competition and discussions about how to overcome golf\u2019s somewhat outdated image, especially among the younger population. Now the LPGA Tour, the American Women\u2019s Tour, has taken its already strong commitment to\u00a0social media promotion to a new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}