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...course for women. More than a fifth of the 26.5 million Americans who play golf are women--an increase of 24% over the past decade, according to the National Golf Foundation in Jupiter, Fla. And the barriers that once kept them off the links during prime tee times (when the deals get done) have been dropping like Annika Sorenstam's putts. The result: one of the last bastions of old-boy networking has got into synch with the oncoming 21st century...
...cartpath to equality has not been smooth, however. While golf enthusiasts say the situation has improved in recent years, there are still many private clubs that restrict the hours during which women can play, refuse to allow women to tee off on weekend mornings or do not permit single women to be club members. Tracy Friedman, 49, a television writer from North Hollywood, Calif., was taking Saturday lessons two years ago at Lakeside Golf Club in Burbank when a member invited her to join him for a round. The club pro vetoed the idea. "There...
Other women have not been so amenable. In 1990, Midge Martin, then a 65-year-old financial broker, sued the Longmeadow Country Club in Massachusetts for gender discrimination. The club excluded women from voting, prime tee times and the men's grill. In the months that followed, Martin reportedly received threatening phone calls, her crab-apple trees were uprooted from her lawn, and her Himalayan cat, Max, was poisoned. She later reached a settlement with the club, which included $45,000 for her legal fees...
Should Investors Tee...
...dragged on with no word from the airport and I spent two nights shivering in borrowed shorts and tee-shirt, my calm demeanor soon deteriorated. The baggage office answered only every third time I called, and the noise in the background at De Gaulle sounded like a World War II resistance fight led by Charles himself. However, the most upsetting part of the whole experience was the cavalier and almost hostile attitude of the flight attendants, personnel and those whose job it was to help me. They seemed to be saying: How presumptuous of you to expect that, in addition...