Golf dad creates women's developmental tour to debut in January

Women’s professional golf is getting a boost.

The East Coast Women’s Professional Golf Tour will debut in January as another mini-tour option for aspiring LPGA players. The tour is an outgrowth of the National Women’s Golf Association tour, which was purchased by Mark Berman, who also founded the PXG Women’s Match Play Championship.

The new tour’s focus will be to deliver a more economically viable and regionally focused pathway for women’s player in the eastern third of the country.

“Our goal is to complement the other tours rather than compete,” Berman said. “We’ll keep an eye on schedules, so players don’t have to choose one over another. At the same time, there are plenty of players…