The Indy Women in Tech Championship will be shortened to 54 holes with a Saturday finish to help alleviate travel concerns for LPGA pros planning to play the last major championship of the year, the tour announced Tuesday.
The inaugural event at the Brickyard Crossing Golf Course in Indianapolis faced some challenges as a 72-hole event scheduled the week before the Evian Championship. Top players headed to France for the year’s fifth major in women’s golf have to think twice about playing both, with a long flight to France ahead of them after the Indianapolis tournament.