Less than 24 hours before Lydia Ko received the LPGA’s richest prize for winning the CME Group Tour Championship on Sunday, the man mostly responsible for that $2 million check, CME Group chairman and CEO Terry Duffy, was feeling embarrassed.
In a report by Golfweek’s Beth Ann Nichols, Duffy voiced his disappointment with LPGA leadership after no players showed up to a Tuesday night dinner put on by CME and expressed concern for the direction the tour is heading.
“They better get their act together because they’re going to lose people like me over stuff like this,” Duffy told Nichols.