The Ladies Professional Golf Association announced it is partnering with Genius Sports to implement a sports betting monitoring, education and investigation program.
Under the partnership, the LPGA’s integrity team will receive regular reports, analysis and betting data from Genius Sport’s bet monitoring system.
“Sports betting is certainly coming and we’ll have to get our hands around it, so we are very excited to establish an integrity strategy in partnership with Genius Sports,” said LPGA commissioner Mike Whan. “In this partnership, we will educate our players, protect our sport, and ensure our competition is guarded against any corrupting influences.”
The technology will track global betting activity for all LPGA Tour and Symetra Tour competitions to highlight any potentially suspicious patterns that may occur across domestic and international betting markets, the release said.
The LPGA will also work with Genius to develop an educational program to help players, caddies and officials to identify, resist and report incidents of potential betting corruption. Educational workshops will reinforce the LPGA’s regulations and highlight the potential consequences, the release said.
