TECO’s Chief Bruce Fuh greeted delegation of The Swinging Skirts Golf Team at the San Francisco International Airport on April 19

The $1.8 million, 144-player Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic was held April 24-27 at Lake Merced Golf Club, bringing the LPGA back to the Bay Area for the first time since 2010. This official LPGA event was the first ever LPGA co-sanctioned tournament with an Asian Tour on American soil, partnering with the TLPGA to showcase some of the top international talent from around the globe. The Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic field featured 122 LPGA golfers, 10 players from TLPGA, 5 Taiwanese young talents and 5 sponsor exemptions.
The Swinging Skirts Golf Team is a private, Taiwanese non-profit organization made up of both men and women amateur golfers with a shared goal of growing women’s golf across the globe via sponsoring top women’s golf tournaments as well as top female golfers. The Swinging Skirts members are avid golfers who always wear colorful skirts or kilts when they play to bring a fun atmosphere to some of golf’s oldest traditions, born hundreds of years ago at St. Andrews in Scotland. The Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic will be a celebration of the international nature of the game that showcases some of the best young talent from Taiwan competing against the very best players in the world.