Golf Women

In Golf why do women get to tee off closer to the hole and be allowed an extra stroke on long par 4s?

oh and they get a higher handicap too! compared to mens..

Men who whine about women in sports are usually upset because THEY are not very good at a sport themselves and are struggling to make the grade that other men around them seem to be better at. They become very unstable and anxious when others rising up in skills approximate their skill level. The problem with those kind of nervous nellies is that they have problems with insecurity. Rather than compete with others, they should focus on competing with just themselves and improving their own game rather than comparing themselves and basing their sense of worth on other people’s journeys of competence.

As for handicaps, when I play golf, frequently, the handicaps seem to fall on older men with back or cardiac problems. Handicaps are good sportsmanship. They are an attempt to allow people of various physical states to play the same game together. Not all women need handicaps in amatuer golf. Handicaps routinely allotted to women are related to size and other physiological differences that enable women to play for goals that are different than the goals men are able, as a general average, to reach for. The skills, intelligence and character that goes into golf are enjoyed by people of all sizes, ages and physical limits. What is a limit for a parakeet to fly is not the same limit for a falcon to fly. But, they most certainly can both fly in their own ways and one is not better or “superior” than the other.

Didn’t racists get into all this whining stuff back about allowing Blacks to play? It’s a character disorder not to enjoy sports and to appreciate efforts made to enable everyone to reach for their own limits and potentials. Although men and women are not “alike”, they are equal in the right to achieve whatever their potential is. What would be almost as weird as whiners who resent handicaps would be women demanding that golf courses be designed for their physiology. Come to think of it, why ARE golf courses designed only for male physiology?

It’s like when one of my brothers was in middle school. He was over 6′4″ at 12 years old. The connected desks and seats combos in his classroom were way too small for him. He was miserable, looked like a gorilla on a tricycle. The school snottily said, hard cheese. The “standard” size desk for students in that grade level were so and so. He’d have to make do. Well, after a quick call from our attorney, they had no problem whatsoever finding him a desk to accomodate HIS physiological needs. He might not have been “alike” the other students. But, he sure as heck had an equal right to an education and comfortable seating. People have to be REALLY stupid to mix up “alike” and “equal”. And, people have to be really missing a picket in their clapboard fences to think a classroom, a golf game or a society is supposed to be designed to accomodate only the physiology of one sex. There’s no “hard cheese” about it. Not since women got the right to vote.

So, how IS your golf game? Having problems?

UCLA Women’s Golf Press Conference: 4-27-10