Why are there men’s and women’s golf courses?
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Are the holes different .... ?
Why are there men’s and women’s golf courses?
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Are the holes different .... ?
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As a whole, there aren’t many men’s and women’s golf courses. On all public courses they have different tee blocks on each hole, the women’s shorter. The men’s tees are twofold: they have the regular tees and the championship tees, normally longer than the regular ones. If they stuck to just one gender, they wouldn’t be able to support the cost to keep the course open. A majority of the banned women courses are in Europe or the British Isles.
A few of the longest hitting women pros or amateurs have tried to compete with the men on a sanctioned tournament. They were treated the same as the men and were required to tee off from the men’s championship tees.
Babe Zaharias competed in the 1938 Open and made the second round cut. But she didn’t make it through the third round as in those days they cut at the rounds two and three.
Annika Sorenstam, Suzy Whaley, and Michelle Wie have competed in one mens’ tournament each in the 2000’s but did not make it past the second round.
The women don’t have the length of the men today as the average drive for women is around around 245 yards. The men’s is at 280 yards. And this distance changes the club selection based upon the course layout and artificially raises the women’s score on few of the par 3’s, but many of the par 4’s and almost all of the par 5’s where they will be trying to make chips and, at best, long putts to stay even due to much longer approach shots.
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