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To: Skywise
Golf, tennis, archery could all be coed.

Surely you jest.

I don't know what is involved in competitive archery today, but I have watched the serious reenactor types who are expert with medieval weaponry. I don't mean the goofball reenactors; I mean the guys who live their sport and who could probably enlist tomorrow with Richard the Lionhearted and be paid a premium for their archery skills. With combat level equipment, serious archery is definitely a strength event. Draw weight is not the weight of a pencil.

Women are as disadvantaged in golf and tennis as any other major sport.

In golf, I've often wondered if there is any differential when it comes to putting. Otherwise, however, men's greater strength yields greater distance off the tee, and the advantage compounds on every following shot. The distance advantage also changes club selection. On the putting green, men and women might be equal, but not elsewhere.

In tennis, men have a decisive range and power advantage.

53 posted on 03/04/2021 10:41:34 AM PST by sphinx
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To: sphinx

Definitely in terms of power and distance men will beat women in terms of tennis, gold and archery.

But archery and golf are more about hitting a target and so long as a woman can’t drive a ball or arrow within the same range then it’s ultimately a matter of skill.

Same with Tennis - it’s a matter of ball control. Sure a man has some advantages there as hitting back a ball delivered with greater strength is harder but power driving a ball also has disadvantages and disrupts control.


58 posted on 03/04/2021 11:16:39 AM PST by Skywise
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