{"id":579618,"date":"2026-04-03T13:05:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/579618\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:05:21","slug":"win-sports-launches-new-golf-division-with-former-wme-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/579618\/","title":{"rendered":"WIN Sports launches new golf division with former WME agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-labor-and-agents \">Patrick Whitesell\u2019s new WIN Sports Group is now officially launching a golf division. The group, called WIN Golf, will be led by Brent Hamilton, who has managed PGA Tour player Min Woo Lee in recent years and will be a partner in WIN. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-labor-and-agents \">Hamilton, who was with WME before leaving at the start of 2026, also manages tour players John Pak and Ricky Castillo, as well as Eric Lee, a junior at Oklahoma State. He also reps Minjee Lee, the No. 5 in the Rolex Women\u2019s World Golf Rankings and the sister of Min Woo Lee. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-labor-and-agents \">WIN Golf looks to remain relatively on the small side for the time being. WIN Sports president and partner Jason Lublin in a statement said growth is a priority for WIN, but that \u201ccomes from working with unique talent, both golfers and agents.\u201d Lublin said WIN is \u201cfocused on quality\u201d more than the size of its client roster. The golf division is the third under WIN Sports Group, joining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/17\/sports-business-daily-executive-transactions-march-17-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/17\/sports-business-daily-executive-transactions-march-17-2026\/\">WIN Artist<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/05\/12\/whitesell-launching-win-sports-group-with-eye-on-making-football-players-global-stars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/05\/12\/whitesell-launching-win-sports-group-with-eye-on-making-football-players-global-stars\/\">WIN Football<\/a>. Though WIN Golf will remain small for the time being, it\u2019s expected that it will be able to pool resources from the other divisions, and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-labor-and-agents \">SBJ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/17\/dechambeau-eyes-next-media-steps-with-extra-agency-representation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">first reported<\/a> on the formation of WIN Golf last month as WIN Artists was launched alongside Josh Pyatt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Whitesell\u2019s new WIN Sports Group is now officially launching a golf division. The group, called WIN Golf,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,42098,3747,82,67009],"class_list":{"0":"post-579618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-lpga","12":"tag-pga-tour","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-wme"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}