{"id":737572,"date":"2026-07-01T20:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/737572\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T20:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:28:18","slug":"lpgas-queen-city-championship-in-jeopardy-as-sponsors-drop-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/737572\/","title":{"rendered":"LPGA&#8217;s Queen City Championship in jeopardy as sponsors drop out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/cincinnati\/news\/2026\/06\/30\/lpga-kroger-queen-city-championship-sponsors-drop.html?utm_source=sy&amp;utm_medium=ptr&amp;utm_campaign=local12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cincinnati Business Courier<\/a>) &#8211; The two primary sponsors of the LPGA\u2019s Kroger Queen City Championship presented by P&amp;G over its five-year history have dropped out, putting the tournament\u2019s future in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>Supermarket giant Kroger Co. and consumer products behemoth Procter &amp; Gamble Co., both downtown Cincinnati-based Fortune 500 companies, began sponsorship of the newly created annual tournament with the 2022 event. Both extended their original commitment another two years in 2024. That contract expired with the end of this year\u2019s tournament that ran from May 14-17 at Maketewah Country Club in Bond Hill.<\/p>\n<p>They opted not to renew their sponsorship deal for the event, one of 33 tournaments this year on the LPGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/cincinnati\/news\/2026\/06\/30\/lpga-kroger-queen-city-championship-sponsors-drop.html?utm_source=sy&amp;utm_medium=ptr&amp;utm_campaign=local12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read the full story <\/a>from the Cincinnati Business Courier.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (6)<\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati Business Courier is a Local 12 News partner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (Cincinnati Business Courier) &#8211; The two primary sponsors of the LPGA\u2019s Kroger Queen City Championship presented by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-737572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}