LPGA commissioner Mike Whan says his designation that the Evian Championship would become the fifth major in women’s golf was good for the sport, and that there was a noble risk in making it a major, a risk that necessarily required that his tour create definitions for a Grand Slam and a Super Grand Slam.
Whan made an appearance on Golf Channel’s Morning Drive on Tuesday to defend the tour’s declaration that Inbee Park won the career Grand Slam by claiming the Ricoh Women’s British Open title on Sunday, giving her four of the five existing major titles in women’s golf.