AXA Pro-Am Features LPGA
Tour Players to Benefit New LPGA Leadership Academy
The LPGA Foundation will partner with AXA to conduct the AXA
Pro-Am benefitting LPGA-USGA Girls Golf on June 15th at Glen Arbor
Golf Club in Bedford Hills, N.Y. Twelve of the LPGA’s top
professionals will play alongside AXA-invited guests for the
opportunity to positively impact the lives of young girls.
LPGA Girls Golf Ambassador and reigning ANA Inspiration
champion, one of the LPGA Tour’s major Championships, Brittany
Lincicome, is among those playing to support Girls Golf.
“I am thrilled to have been chosen to play in this AXA Pro-am
benefitting Girls Golf,” said Lincicome. “As a former member of the
program, I can relate to the girls and know how daunting the game
and life can seem. Girls Golf helped me believe that anything is
possible.”
The only initiative of its kind, Girls Golf specializes in
providing a “girl-friendly” environment for juniors to learn and
play the game of golf. Administered through a partnership between
the LPGA Foundation and the USGA, the program has grown to over 280
sites across the United States with over 50,000 girls, ages 7-17,
expected to participate in 2015. Proceeds from this event will be
used to support a new program designed specifically for girls 15-18
years old.
LPGA Foundation President Nancy Henderson said, “Through this
partnership, we will be able to pilot a new LPGA Leadership Academy
designed to teach teenage girls more than the game of golf. We will
teach leadership skills through golf, inspiring and developing the
next generation of female leaders.”
Girls and boys at ages 8-11 are developmentally similar, but as
they enter adolescence, girls experience a disproportionate drop in
self-esteem. As girls learn how to play golf in the LPGA Leadership
Academy, they also learn how to overcome obstacles, develop
relationships, and recover from setbacks to achieve their goals.
These same skills contribute to professional and academic success
through developing and promoting self-confidence, perseverance,
self-reliance, discipline, and self-esteem.
The new LPGA Leadership Academy is a natural fit for AXA as the
company’s mission for over 150 years has been to provide stability
and reliability to clients and help them live their lives with
confidence.
“We are pleased to support this launch of the LPGA Leadership
Academy,” said Sharon Ritchey, chief operating officer of AXA US.
“Girls Golf creates an environment that encourages leadership
skills and helps girls develop self-esteem and confidence –
qualities that we need to nurture today to help build more
inclusive societies tomorrow.”
The LPGA Leadership Academy will take place August 9th and 10th
at Glen Arbor Golf Club. AXA female executives will participate in
a leadership panel during the Academy and will talk about their own
roads to success, finding their own voices, and how and when to
take calculated risks.
“We hope to expand this LPGA Leadership Academy concept to
multiple markets in 2016,” added Henderson. “Nothing speaks more
powerfully than AXA’s willingness to be the first to jump onboard
and make the commitment to inspire and empower the next generation
of female leaders.”
This pro-am to benefit LPGA-USGA Girls Golf follows the KPMG
Women’s PGA Championship, one of five majors on the LPGA Tour,
which was held last week at Westchester Country Club in Harrison,
N.Y. The LPGA partnered with the PGA of America and KPMG to bring
together a world-class, annual major golf championship with a
women’s leadership summit and an ongoing charitable initiative to
inspire and develop new generations of female leaders.
About The LPGA Foundation
Established in 1991, The LPGA Foundation is a 501(c) (3)
charitable organization committed to empowering and supporting
girls and women through developmental and humanitarian golf
initiatives.
Key priorities include: LPGA-USGA Girls Golf, scholarships and
the Dolores Hope LPGA Financial Assistance Initiative for those in
the golf industry who are experiencing severe hardship. The LPGA
Foundation is supported by corporate and private donations,
foundation grants and contributions from LPGA members. For more
information on how to con- tribute to The LPGA Foundation, please
contact LPGA Headquarters, 100 International Golf Drive, Daytona
Beach, FL 32124, or by phone, 386.274.6200 and on the web:
https://lpgafoundation.org/donate.
About AXA
“AXA” is the brand name of AXA Equitable Financial
Services, LLC and its family of companies, including AXA Equitable
Life Insurance Company (NY, NY), MONY Life Insurance Company of
America (AZ stock company, administrative office: Jersey City, NJ),
AXA Advisors, LLC, and AXA Distributors, LLC. In business since
1859, AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company is a leading financial
protection company and one of the nation’s premier providers
of life insurance, annuity, and financial products and
services distributed to individuals and business owners through its
retail distribution channel, AXA Advisors, LLC (member FINRA, SIPC)
and to the financial services market through its wholesale
distribution channel, AXA Distributors, LLC.
Group insurance products are issued by AXA Equitable Life
Insurance Company (AXA Equitable), by MONY Life Insurance Company
of America (MONY America), and by unaffiliated third-party issuers.
AXA Equitable and MONY America have sole responsibility for their
insurance and claims-paying obligations.
AXA S.A. is a Paris-headquartered holding company for a group of
international insurance and financial services companies, including
AXA Equitable Financial Services, LLC companies. AXA S.A. is a
worldwide leader in financial protection strategies and wealth
management with 103 million clients in 59 countries as of December
31, 2014.
Find AXA on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
For more information, visit www.axa.com.
About the LPGA (Ladies Professional Golf Association)
The LPGA is the world’s leading professional golf organization
for women. Founded in 1950 and headquartered in Daytona Beach,
Florida, the association celebrates a diverse and storied
membership with more than 2,300 members representing 30 different
countries. With a Vision to inspire, empower, educate and entertain
by showcasing the very best of women’s golf, LPGA Tour
Professionals compete across the globe, while dedicated LPGA
Teaching and Club Professionals (T&CP) directly impact the game
through teaching, coaching and management. The Symetra Tour
consistently produces a pipeline of talent ready for the world
stage. Follow the LPGA on its television home, Golf Channel, and on
the web via: www.LPGA.com, www.facebook.com/lpga,
www.twitter.com/lpga, and www.youtube.com/lpgavideo.
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