Mike Whan pledges to wear a onesie in LPGA fundraising pitch

If Mike Whan can stand up at a podium with a wheel of cheese on his head then surely the LPGA Tour commissioner will have no problem donning a onesie for a good cause.

In honor of the global #GivingTuesday Twitter drive, LPGA-USGA Girls Golf announced (on Tuesday, appropriately enough) that Whan would meet the press at the 2016 LPGA Founders Cup attired in a pajama jumpsuit if the organization devoted to attracting more girls to the game can raise $50,000 by the end of the year. Even more entertaining, Girls Golf contributors get to decide whether the commish shows up as a penguin, crocodile, kangaroo or unicorn.

To help get the commissioner in a onesie, the LPGA will match each $5 donation made to Girls Golf from now through December 31.

Whan may be getting cold feet, but the footsie jammies should take care of that.

The feel-good campaign certainly engaged the Twitter-verse with such luminaries as World Golf Hall of Famer Annika Sorenstam enjoying a giggle at the prospect of Whan in a PJ one-piece.

As for the cheesehead look, Whan made that fashion statement late last month to announce an expanded 2016 LPGA schedule that will include 34 events -- two more than in 2015 -- and purses worth a record $63.1 million, a $4 million boost from this year. The cheesy lid signified a new tournament in the home of the Green Bay Packers that the 2017 schedule will boast.

“It’s pretty nice to have a year where we renewed everybody that needed to be renewed, lost nobody, added a couple events and at the end of the day hopefully the LPGA’s a little more predictable than we have been the last five or six years,” Whan said during the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship. “We have probably been called a lot of things in six years, predictable probably wasn’t one of them and so I’m hoping that we become a little bit more in the predictability stage.”

Predictable? Whan growing the LPGA each year, for sure. The commissioner in a onesie, not so much.