Posted on 09/19/2002 2:44:15 PM PDT by Phantom Lord
A Historic Tee Time, if She Takes It
Woman Qualifies for PGA Tour Event, Weighs Decision to Play
Suzy Whaley, a teaching golf professional in Connecticut, has become the first woman to qualify to play in a Professional Golfers' Association Tour event and now must decide whether she will follow the encouragement of the tour, her family and fellow competitors and play in next summer's Greater Hartford Open
Whaley won the PGA of America's Connecticut sectional championship tournament to earn the automatic qualification at a time when Augusta National Golf Club is manning the barricades to keep women from even joining the all-male club that is the site of the prestigious Masters tournament. Whaley must weigh the merits of being a pioneer against the possibility of being overmatched on a lengthy PGA Tour course.
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I hate to disagree with you patent but this staement is incorrect. While she's a great golfer, much better than I am, she scored the lowest amongst those who played a course 6200 yards long.
Somebody else scored the lowest among those who played from 6800 yards.
In other words she finished first among the women. She did not compete with the men.
And in the few specialty/exhibition events where men and women from the tours compete against each other the women still play from the ladies tees.
Would you say "Let him play, be he is a great golfer" if it was a man trying to play in an LPGA event?
Then why do the men play from the tips, the seniors from the middle tees and the women from the red tees?
Can't imagine that would happen. It could, just can't imagine it.
The problem is she didn't win the slot based on merit. She won it based on affirmative action, hitting from the short tees, because she is a woman. She's taking somebody else's hard earned position. Thats the problem in a nutshell.
And as far as everyone playing from the same tees in the "Full tournament", that is another reason this women shouldnt play in the PGA event. She did NOT play from the same tees as everyone in the event she won. So, at best, its an illegitimate win and clearly not one worthy of gaining an exemption into a PGA Tour event.
You got it. If the men who aren't good enough to make the PGA tour were allowed play on the women's tour, there wouldn't be one woman left on their own tour. Every last one of them - including the woman in the article - would be squeezed out mercilessly and effortlessly.
It's always a one-way street with these "gender equity" nutballs.
Do you also think that the Williams sisters should try their hand at the men's tennis tour? Their serves are clocked at higher speeds than at least half of the men on tour.
So John Daly should play in any LPGA event. He'll qualify.Ladies Professional Golf Association. I do believe Mr. Daly is a Professional, and he is a Golfer. Rumor has it he enjoys some association from time to time.
I do not understand him to be a lady, however, and accordingly must disagree with you that he qualifies.
I note that this lady does qualify for the PGA, however, as it does not seem to necessitate that its professional golfers be of a specific gender.
patent +AMDG
She also played from the ladies tees.She should not be allowed to play from the ladies tees in a competitive situation. This I would agree with, she should compete just the same as everyone else.
That said, if she did compete from the mens tees, and still won, would you still object to her participation on the PGA tournament? I would not. For some on this thread it seems to be her gender that is the problem, not where she teed off from. Please correct me if I'm wrong, Phantom Lord.
patent +AMDG
But qualifying for a single event and being competitive on the PGA Tour are two totally different things.
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