Men on the LPGA Tour? Wha?
Posted March 30th, 2009 @ 06:53pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Every once in awhile, someone advances the opinion that since the PGA Tour has no gender rules ((If a woman ever qualified to be a member, there are no rules to prevent it. Women are allowed to receive sponsor exemptions to play in PGA Tour events - that's how Michelle Wie and Annika Sorenstam have played PGA Tour events in recent years.)), the LPGA Tour should ditch their "women only" rule, too.
I never understood how someone could advance such a theory, but those who believe it tend to be bizarrely adamant that they're right.
How can you possibly explain to someone how (insert a synonym for "stupid" of the appropriate strength here) that opinion is? They're clearly missing some massive part of their brain that is responsible for logic, reasoning, and perhaps common sense.</minirant>
7 Responses to "Men on the LPGA Tour? Wha?"
Posted 01 Apr 2009 at 4:03pm #
Why is it so off the way, if women play on the PGA tour, why shouldn't men be able to play on the women tour?
I fully support Wie and Sorenstam playing in the PGA.
I just don't see why you are so against them dropping the 'L' and making it more of a semi-pro league.
So you'd have two tier of PGA tour both open to men and women.
I'd just like to hear why you think its a bad idea.
Posted 01 Apr 2009 at 4:58pm #
The PGA Tour (not "the PGA") has a "developmental" tour beneath it already: the Nationwide Tour. Additionally, there are mini-tours as well as tours in other parts of the world that are not as high-level as the PGA Tour.
I don't mean any offense by this, but your apparent lack of knowledge about some of those types of things makes this a topic you really don't seem qualified to discuss.
Posted 02 Apr 2009 at 1:56pm #
Your totally right I don't 'know' the PGA. Never watched it or cared to learn about the differences.
I was just asking the question of what's the point of the LPGA.
I haven't seen you explain why they should keep the LPGA.
Posted 02 Apr 2009 at 2:11pm #
People who advocate this are only thinking of the injustice of it all. "Why should you be allowed to exclude me from your club, especially when I can't exclude you from mine?"
On the flip side, of course, is "Why can't I have a club that is restricted to people who are/have [insert criteria here]?"
There are lots of reasons on both sides, but the solution is not binary. It really depends on the situation.
In this case, the reason for the L in LPGA is (and I'm WAY outside my limited golf knowledge here) to provide a competitive, pro-level environment for women, not to exclude men because they don't want men in their club.
Posted 02 Apr 2009 at 6:02pm #
[quote comment="53680"]I haven't seen you explain why they should keep the LPGA.[/quote]
The answer should be common sense. Don's close. There's a high-level tour for golfers over the age of 50, too. We have men's and women's events in the Olympics.
Posted 03 Apr 2009 at 9:01am #
So your saying you would be ok with a MPGA?
Posted 11 Apr 2009 at 2:20pm #
[quote comment="53709"]So your saying you would be ok with a MPGA?[/quote]
Unnecessary.