Los Angeles loves its Dodgers but went without an NFL team for 20 years and responded with a collective whatevs.

The question is, based on past performance, whether the LPGA has no business returning to a region in which it has never been able to establish traction. We posed it to Los Angeles’ resident LPGA expert, World Golf Hall of Famer Amy Alcott, a native of Santa Monica.

“From my experience in close to 40 years of playing the tour,” she said Tuesday, “I always found that it was the small cities—Corning, N.Y., Rochester, N.Y., Birmingham, Ala., Dubuque, Iowa—those are the cities that have smaller populations where the LPGA becomes the biggest show in town.”

Read more of what Amy had to say at Golf Digest.