[Diddle E. Squat]

Hahahahahaha.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Rumor has it that corporate sponsors are pressuring the Westminster Dog Show to allow Martha Burke's and Maureen Dowd's cats to compete.

[Mister Baredog]

By next week it will all be over, personally I think anyone who has won as many tournaments as she has DOES deserve a sponsers exemption, and B of A is getting what they're paying for, tons of press, after all it's the advertisers that pay for the whole thing. I'll be watching.

[Cedric]

My son is a professional golfer {grew-up playing against Tiger Woods} and he knows many aspiring male golfers, young and old, who have sacrificed untold time and money, damaged non-golf careers and personal relationships and marriages to pursue their golf dreams. When the chick tees it up at Colonial, just remember there's 100 divorced guys with three mortgages on their houses, driving a beat-up jalopies who would crawl to Texas if given a sponsors exemption for this tournament. Oh, and by the way, every one of them could beat Annika with just a 5 iron and a putter!

[VRWCmember]

Price also objects, however, to Sorenstam being handed one of the sponsor's exemptions. The precious few spots should go to golfers who have earned them, preferably on the same field of play.

The author blew it with this line. Sponsor's exemptions are not earned, they are given to people who otherwise did not qualify for the tournament, but who the sponsors believe will add interest to the tournament. She isn't taking someone else's spot.

[Hatteras]

I worked with a fellow named Singh for a while, a few years back. This guy was extremely sexist. His attitude was that women are less superior and should be treated as such. I believe it's a Sikh thing, I could be wrong.

At the risk of painting with a broad brush, I do sense this is a cultural thing with ViJay. I don't believe he's concerned about losing to her but he's not going to play because he really doesn't believe she should play in a "men's tournament".

[Kozak]

Would LOVE to see a rush of male golfers trying to qualify for the LPGA events. Sauce for the goose....

[gunnedah]

Thanks guys for having the courage to stand up like men.
Of course neither of you are not white American males that have been brainwashed into thinking they owe the world something and just need to keep quite.
Anyone want to bet whether Anika gets to wear shorts this week or not?
This PC Crowd is pitiful but what is more pitiful is the American White Male.

[Howlin]

Sorenstam's historic Colonial appearance

What's so historic about getting into a tournament just because you're a woman. She didn't even qualify!

[Tall_Texan]

I don't have any problem whatsoever with women competing at a PGA event, provided they are given no special advantages and it appears Annika is not. She's going to hit from the blue tees and conform in every other way to PGA tournament rules.

Who wants to deny her the opportunity to see how she would fare at a men's tournament? The fact that she can plausibly compete says something about her dominance on the women's tour. And the Colonial is reaping a whirlwind of profit from this - setting itself apart from 50 other non-major PGA events. It's a win-win for everyone except the guys whose egos might be hurt that they don't play as well as a girl.

The talk about how some poor male golfer will be stiffed out of a spot sounds to me just as dumb as when the major league baseball players say they are striking in support of the young guys just coming up from the minors. It's total BS. The golfers are thinking only of themselves. They may not be unionized the way the baseball players are, but they see themselves as members of an exclusive fraternity and they just don't like the idea of a gal crashing the party.

[marshmallow]

Great move by Vijay.

His winning of the tournament was the best way of showing that he was bothered not at all by all the fuss over his lack of political correctness. He came over as cool as a cucumber.

He's made his check for the week, played like a class act and now that the circus is coming to town he's out of there. He's effectively saying "I don't want to be part of your circus and I don't need to be."

[Mike Darancette]

I don't know what kind of TV attraction she will be because she probably won't make the cut to be on TV, unless there is a sponsor exemption for that too.