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...head of the Environmental Protection Agency. More worrying, a new easy-to-apply testosterone gel was approved for sale. But by the end of last week, Annika Sorenstam emerged from these feminist shadows. Playing coolly and calmly as the first woman in a PGA tournament since 1945, the Swedish golfer provoked even chauvinist curmudgeons to relent...
...There were naysayers, of course. Vijay Singh, the notoriously cranky professional golfer, avoided competing against Sorenstam, claiming she had "no business" messing it up with the guys. Piling on the charm, he added: "I hope she misses the cut. Why? Because she doesn't belong out here. What is she going to prove by playing? It's ridiculous. She's the best woman golfer in the world, and I want to emphasize woman. We have our tour for men, and they have their tour. She's taking a spot from someone in the field." Altogether now: awwww. That poor lonely...
...Other harrumphers really got in touch with their inner misogynist. "As a life-long golfer, I can attest that being AWAY from women is part of the attraction," an emailer to the conservative magazine, National Review, explained. "Furthermore, a local sports station held a survey recently and discovered that contrary to popular belief, men don't want their women interested in sports at all. It's an escape for most men. It offers a chance for men to reconnect with their manliness (or boyishness) with other men, and cast off the domestic shackles for a short time, and to have...
...level, they can now sponsor individual holes on a golf course. ProLink, a company based in Tempe, Ariz., has mounted screens in 21,960 golf carts on 305 public and private courses around the country. Using GPS technology, the screens display static ads for the sponsoring company as a golfer approaches the tee box of a particular hole, as well as distances and tips on how to play the hole. One hopes that a clothing company will soon provide style tips...
...golfer knows and as Klein was soon to be reminded, that which the golf Gods giveth they can also taketh away. Knocking his drive behind a tree on the 10th, leaving a bunker shot on the 11th still in the bunker, airmailing the green on the 12th and three-putting the 13th green, Klein saw his visions of Ivy League glory dissolve shot by grimacing shot...