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Excel Sports Management – the agency that represents Tiger Woods and Justin Thomas, among others – has launched a women’s division. Excel has long represented Cheyenne Woods, Tiger’s niece, but is expanding its stable with some of women’s golf’s most promising young pros.
The expansion brings six more women’s golfers on board, including Bronte Law, Kristen Gillman, Jillian Hollis, Andrea Lee, Albane Valenzuela and Sierra Brooks.
More than half of that group will be rookies this year. Symetra Tour graduate Hollis plus former Stanford players Valenzuela and Lee will all compete on the LPGA. Brooks, a former Florida player, will start out on the Symetra Tour.
Valenzuela competed in the 2016 Olympics for Switzerland.
Related: Sierra Brooks player diary
Law won her first LPGA title at the 2019 Pure Silk Championship and was a member of the victorious European Solheim Cup team later in the year. Gillman made 22 cuts in 26 events as a rookie last season, finishing second in the Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year standings.
“Launching this women’s golf division is a very proud moment for Excel Sports Management,” said Mark Steinberg, Partner and President of Golf, Excel Sports Management. “We’re looking to build something here that will benefit women golfers around the world, providing opportunities they deserve on and off the course.”
Kevin Hopkins will lead the women’s division for Excel. Hopkins joined the agency in 2018 and has 15 years of experience in the golf representation and event management space, serving as the Executive Director for multiple Major Championships on the LPGA calendar including the ANA Inspiration (2012-2019) and the U.S. Women’s Open (2017).
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