Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   Women playing the PGA Date:   7/23/2018 10:12:22 AM

On a lighter note, with all the hoopla with the British Open you may have missed that one of the best LPGA players (Brittany Lincicome) joined a list of prominent woman golfers to make a go at a PGA event (Barbsol Championship).  It didn't go well for her as one might expect.  Out of the 160 players she was better than only three of them and obviously did not make the cut.  What makes this even worse is that the best male players in the world were not at the event as they were in Scotland.  She was there on a sponsor exemption and actually played well but she could not match up to the men.

I am all for women making a go of it.  This is the PGA, not the MPGA.  But women as a biological fact are simply not physically capable of competing with men on the PGA, the NBA, NFL, MLB and so on.  The average length of a women's PGA event is around 6,500 yards, which is similar to the lengths of the member tees at a golf course.  PGA courses go as long as 7,700 yards.  So men are driving the ball over 290 and most of the better ones well over 300.  Lincicome drives the ball 270 max (which is pretty impressive in itself).  But that still leaves here 20 to 70 yards behind the men and hitting a much lower iron into the greens which for those of us duffers we understand what a huge difference that is.  There's a reason why so few men, even scratch golfers, can compete on the PGA and it's why biological women will never be able to compete.  But kudos for her for trying.