Opinion & Analysis
Why the LPGA deserves a major championship at Augusta National
A holy “tradition unlike any other” or a contrived event deliberately cloaked in mystery, whatever your opinion is, Augusta National has represented the pinnacle of golf for years.
The elite southern club’s allure has grown to a crescendo over the years. So much so that it brought Rory McIlroy to declare that the Masters is now “the biggest golf tournament in the world.” It hasn’t all been smooth sailing for the club, however, which has fought hard in recent times to make restitution for its murky past.
One of those moves was made last April when the club announced that it would host the Augusta National Women’s Amateur Championship. However, instead of the groundbreaking step to host a women’s event on the hallowed turf of Augusta National uniting women’s golf, it divided it.
The Championship is due to be held the week before the Masters, clashing with the LPGA’s opening major of the season, the ANA Inspiration, which created unnecessary pressure on the LPGA to move the event. While the announcement also produced jealousy amongst LPGA Tour professionals who long for an opportunity to play a tournament at the Georgian club.
At the time, world No. 5 Lexi Thompson reflected on the news saying, “I think we all as women want to play there. It’s on our bucket list.” While two-time major champion Brittany Lincicome stated, “I wish I was an amateur. I’ve never gotten to play Augusta. I’m super jealous.”
This week, the LPGA announced that in 2019, prize money would rise from $65.35 million to $70.55 million, as the women’s game continues to show its strength and growth. But what the Tour truly needs is a game-changing moment, and that moment will arrive if Augusta National decides to open its doors to the LPGA.
Whether you’re a fan of women’s golf or not, there is little doubt that a LPGA major event hosted at Augusta National would grip golf fans. It may be the one course in the world where the majority of fans would be happy to watch two high handicappers hack their way around for 18 holes, let alone watch the best players in women’s golf battle it out for 72 holes.
The LPGA has global stars such as the likes of Lexi Thompson, Lydia Ko and Michelle Wie, and the quality of golf on display, combined with the continued growth of the Tour deserves to be rewarded by allowing these players the opportunity to compete at Augusta National.
An LPGA tournament at Augusta National would not just be for these professionals, or onlookers who want an extra few days a year to peek inside the hallowed grounds. The event would see ratings that women’s golf has never before seen, and it would be the ideal platform for golf fans, many of whom will have similar swing-speeds to these women, to recognize the excellence that these women possess at one of golf’s grandest stages.
The LPGA players deserve the same equal opportunity as the male players. There may never be the same general interest in the women’s game compared to the men. However, inclusivity is an area that has too often been lacking in the game of golf, and there is now more than enough quality and interest in the women’s game to justify Augusta National staging a women’s major championship.
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19th Hole
Vincenzi’s LIV Golf Singapore betting preview: Course specialist ready to thrive once again
After another strong showing in Australia, LIV Golf will head to Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore looking to build off of what was undoubtedly their best event to date.
Sentosa Golf Club sits on the southern tip of Singapore and is one of the most beautiful courses in the world. The course is more than just incredible scenically; it was also rated 55th in Golf Digest’s top-100 courses in 2022-2023 and has been consistently regarded as one of the best courses in Asia. Prior to being part of the LIV rotation, the course hosted the Singapore Open every year since 2005.
Sentosa Golf Club is a par 71 measuring 7,406 yards. The course will require precise ball striking and some length off the tee. It’s possible to go low due to the pristine conditions, but there are also plenty of hazards and difficult spots on the course that can bring double bogey into play in a hurry. The Bermudagrass greens are perfectly manicured, and the course has spent millions on the sub-air system to keep the greens rolling fast. I spoke to Asian Tour player, Travis Smyth, who described the greens as “the best [he’s] ever played.”
Davis Love III, who competed in a Singapore Open in 2019, also gushed over the condition of the golf course.
“I love the greens. They are fabulous,” the 21-time PGA Tour winner said.
Love III also spoke about other aspects of the golf course.
“The greens are great; the fairways are perfect. It is a wonderful course, and it’s tricky off the tee.”
“It’s a long golf course, and you get some long iron shots. It takes somebody hitting it great to hit every green even though they are big.”
As Love III said, the course can be difficult off the tee due to the length of the course and the trouble looming around every corner. It will take a terrific ball striking week to win at Sentosa Golf Club.
In his pre-tournament press conference last season, Phil Mickelson echoed many of the same sentiments.
“To play Sentosa effectively, you’re going to have a lot of shots from 160 to 210, a lot of full 6-, 7-, 8-iron shots, and you need to hit those really well and you need to drive the ball well.”
Golfers who excel from tee to green and can dial in their longer irons will have a massive advantage this week.
Stat Leaders at LIV Golf Adelaide:
Fairways Hit
1.) Louis Oosthuizen
2.) Anirban Lahiri
3.) Jon Rahm
4.) Brendan Steele
5.) Cameron Tringale
Greens in Regulation
1.) Brooks Koepka
2.) Brendan Steele
3.) Dean Burmester
4.) Cameron Tringale
5.) Anirban Lahiri
Birdies Made
1.) Brendan Steele
2.) Dean Burmester
3.) Thomas Pieters
4.) Patrick Reed
5.) Carlos Ortiz
LIV Golf Individual Standings:
1.) Joaquin Niemann
2.) Jon Rahm
3.) Dean Burmester
4.) Louis Oosthuizen
5.) Abraham Ancer
LIV Golf Team Standings:
1.) Crushers
2.) Legion XIII
3.) Torque
4.) Stinger GC
5.) Ripper GC
LIV Golf Singapore Picks
Sergio Garcia +3000 (DraftKings)
Sergio Garcia is no stranger to Sentosa Golf Club. The Spaniard won the Singapore Open in 2018 by five strokes and lost in a playoff at LIV Singapore last year to scorching hot Talor Gooch. Looking at the course setup, it’s no surprise that a player like Sergio has played incredible golf here. He’s long off the tee and is one of the better long iron players in the world when he’s in form. Garcia is also statistically a much better putter on Bermudagrass than he is on other putting surfaces. He’s putt extremely well on Sentosa’s incredibly pure green complexes.
This season, Garcia has two runner-up finishes, both of them being playoff losses. Both El Camaleon and Doral are courses he’s had success at in his career. The Spaniard is a player who plays well at his tracks, and Sentosa is one of them. I believe Sergio will get himself in the mix this week. Hopefully the third time is a charm in Singapore.
Paul Casey +3300 (FanDuel)
Paul Casey is in the midst of one of his best seasons in the five years or so. The results recently have been up and down, but he’s shown that when he’s on a golf course that suits his game, he’s amongst the contenders.
This season, Casey has finishes of T5 (LIV Las Vegas), T2 (LIV Hong Kong), and a 6th at the Singapore Classic on the DP World Tour. At his best, the Englishman is one of the best long iron players in the world, which makes him a strong fit for Sentosa. Despite being in poor form last season, he was able to fire a Sunday 63, which shows he can low here at the course.
It’s been three years since Casey has won a tournament (Omega Dubai Desert Classic in 2021), but he’s been one of the top players on LIV this season and I think he can get it done at some point this season.
Mito Pereira +5000 (Bet365)
Since Mito Pereira’s unfortunate demise at the 2022 PGA Championship, he’s been extremely inconsistent. However, over the past few months, the Chilean has played well on the International Series as well as his most recent LIV start. Mito finished 8th at LIV Adelaide, which was his best LIV finish this season.
Last year, Pereira finished 5th at LIV Singapore, shooting fantastic rounds of 67-66-66. It makes sense why Mito would like Sentosa, as preeminent ball strikers tend to rise to the challenge of the golf course. He’s a great long iron player who is long and straight off the tee.
Mito has some experience playing in Asia and is one of the most talented players on LIV who’s yet to get in the winner’s circle. I have questions about whether or not he can come through once in contention, but if he gets there, I’m happy to roll the dice.
Andy Ogletree +15000 (DraftKings)
Andy Ogletree is a player I expected to have a strong 2024 but struggled early in his first full season on LIV. After failing to crack the top-25 in any LIV event this year, the former U.S. Amateur champion finally figured things out, finished in a tie for 3rd at LIV Adelaide.
Ogletree should be incredible comfortable playing in Singapore. He won the International Series Qatar last year and finished T3 at the International Series Singapore. The 26-year-old was arguably the best player on the Asian Tour in 2023 and has been fantastic in the continent over the past 18 months.
If Ogletree has indeed found form, he looks to be an amazing value at triple-digit odds.
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In Tampa, there is a golf course that boasts carts that do not work, a water range, and a group of players none of which have any chance to break 80. The course is overseen by a staff of crusty men who have succeeded at nothing in life but ending up at the worst-run course in America. However, this place is no failure. With several other local courses going out of business — and boasting outstanding greens — the place is booked full.
While I came for the great greens, I stayed to watch our resident instructor; a poor-tempered, method teacher who caters to the hopeless. At first, it was simply hilarious. However, after months of listening and watching, something clicked. I realized I had a front-row seat to the worst golf instructor in America.
Here are some of my key takeaways.
Method Teacher
It is widely accepted that there are three types of golf instructors: system teachers, non-system teachers, and method teachers. Method teachers prescribe the same antidote for each student based on a preamble which teachers can learn in a couple day certification.
Method teaching allows anyone to be certified. This process caters to the lowest caliber instructor, creating the illusion of competency. This empowers these underqualified instructors with the moniker of “certified” to prey on the innocent and uninformed.
The Cult of Stack and Jilt
The Stack and Tilt website proudly boasts, “A golfer swings his hands inward in the backswing as opposed to straight back to 1) create power, similar to a field goal kicker moving his leg in an arc and 2) to promote a swing that is in-to-out, which produces a draw (and eliminates a slice).”
Now, let me tell you something, there is this law of the universe which says “energy can either be created or destroyed,” so either these guys are defying physics or they have no idea what they are taking about. Further, the idea that the first move of the backswing determines impact is conjecture with a splash of utter fantasy.
These are the pontifications of a method — a set of prescriptions applied to everyone with the hope of some success through the placebo effect. It is one thing for a naive student to believe, for a golf instructor to drink and then dispel this Kool-Aid is malpractice.
Fooled by Randomness
In flipping a coin, or even a March Madness bet, there is a 50-50 chance of success. In golf, especially for new players, results are asymmetric. Simply put: Anything can happen. The problem is that when bad instructors work with high handicappers, each and every shot gets its own diagnosis and prescription. Soon the student is overwhelmed.
Now here’s the sinister thing: The overwhelming information is by design. In this case, the coach is not trying to make you better, they are trying to make you reliant on them for information. A quasi Stockholm syndrome of codependency.
Practice
One of the most important scientists of the 20th century was Ivan Pavlov. As you might recall, he found that animals, including humans, could be conditioned into biological responses. In golf, the idea of practice has made millions of hackers salivate that they are one lesson or practice session from “the secret.”
Sunk Cost
The idea for the worst golf instructor is to create control and dependency so that clients ignore the sunk cost of not getting better. Instead, they are held hostage by the idea that they are one lesson or tip away from unlocking their potential.
Cliches
Cliches have the effect of terminating thoughts. However, they are the weapon of choice for this instructor. Add some hyperbole and students actually get no information. As a result, these players couldn’t play golf. When they did, they had no real scheme. With no idea what they are doing, they would descend into a spiral of no idea what to do, bad results, lower confidence, and running back to the lesson tee from more cliches.
The fact is that poor instruction is about conditioning players to become reliant members of your cult. To take away autonomy. To use practice as a form of control. To sell more golf lessons not by making people better but through the guise that without the teacher, the student can never reach their full potential. All under the umbrella of being “certified” (in a 2-day course!) and a melee of cliches.
This of course is not just happening at my muni but is a systemic problem around the country and around the world, the consequences of which are giving people a great reason to stop playing golf. But hey, at least it’s selling a lot of golf balls…
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The PGA TOUR heads to New Orleans to play the 2023 Zurich Classic of New Orleans. In a welcome change from the usual stroke play, the Zurich Classic is a team event. On Thursday and Saturday, the teams play best ball, and on Friday and Sunday the teams play alternate shot.
TPC Louisiana is a par 72 that measures 7,425 yards. The course features some short par 4s and plenty of water and bunkers, which makes for a lot of exciting risk/reward scenarios for competitors. Pete Dye designed the course in 2004 specifically for the Zurich Classic, although the event didn’t make its debut until 2007 because of Hurricane Katrina.
Coming off of the Masters and a signature event in consecutive weeks, the field this week is a step down, and understandably so. Many of the world’s top players will be using this time to rest after a busy stretch.
However, there are some interesting teams this season with some stars making surprise appearances in the team event. Some notable teams include Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele, Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry, Collin Morikawa and Kurt Kitayama, Will Zalatoris and Sahith Theegala as well as a few Canadian teams, Nick Taylor and Adam Hadwin and Taylor Pendrith and Corey Conners.
Past Winners at TPC Louisiana
- 2023: Riley/Hardy (-30)
- 2022: Cantlay/Schauffele (-29)
- 2021: Leishman/Smith (-20)
- 2019: Palmer/Rahm (-26)
- 2018: Horschel/Piercy (-22)
- 2017: Blixt/Smith (-27)
2024 Zurich Classic of New Orleans Picks
Tom Hoge/Maverick McNealy +2500 (DraftKings)
Tom Hoge is coming off of a solid T18 finish at the RBC Heritage and finished T13 at last year’s Zurich Classic alongside Harris English.
This season, Hoge is having one of his best years on Tour in terms of Strokes Gained: Approach. In his last 24 rounds, the only player to top him on the category is Scottie Scheffler. Hoge has been solid on Pete Dye designs, ranking 28th in the field over his past 36 rounds.
McNealy is also having a solid season. He’s finished T6 at the Waste Management Phoenix Open and T9 at the PLAYERS Championship. He recently started working with world renowned swing coach, Butch Harmon, and its seemingly paid dividends in 2024.
Keith Mitchell/Joel Dahmen +4000 (DraftKings)
Keith Mitchell is having a fantastic season, finishing in the top-20 of five of his past seven starts on Tour. Most recently, Mitchell finished T14 at the Valero Texas Open and gained a whopping 6.0 strokes off the tee. He finished 6th at last year’s Zurich Classic.
Joel Dahmen is having a resurgent year and has been dialed in with his irons. He also has a T11 finish at the PLAYERS Championship at TPC Sawgrass which is another Pete Dye track. With Mitchell’s length and Dahmen’s ability to put it close with his short irons, the Mitchell/Dahmen combination will be dangerous this week.
Taylor Moore/Matt NeSmith +6500 (DraftKings)
Taylor Moore has quickly developed into one of the more consistent players on Tour. He’s finished in the top-20 in three of his past four starts, including a very impressive showing at The Masters, finishing T20. He’s also finished T4 at this event in consecutive seasons alongside Matt NeSmith.
NeSmith isn’t having a great 2024, but has seemed to elevate his game in this format. He finished T26 at Pete Dye’s TPC Sawgrass, which gives the 30-year-old something to build off of. NeSmith is also a great putter on Bermudagrass, which could help elevate Moore’s ball striking prowess.
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Larry
Dec 12, 2018 at 3:48 pm
Not to be get into a conversation if this is male vs. female but I think the writer answered his own questions in the first line. “A tradition unlike any other.”
So there you have it, you’re not going to replicate the Master’s, the LPGA should look for another prestigious venue that is not used by the PGA Tour to create their own “Master’s” that girls can dream of playing as theyre growing up, because a Women’s Masters will never compete with the popularity of the Masters.
Blake
Dec 10, 2018 at 10:46 am
No one would watch after day one. WOmen would have to play form the members tees which dont look the same and then they would be playing the second shot from much farther away from the green and less likely to hold the green.
Tom
Dec 10, 2018 at 1:42 am
Ain’t no buyers for what they’re sellin!
Ronald Montesano
Dec 9, 2018 at 11:27 pm
I disagree. Why celebrate a club that kept women out for so long, with an LPGA major? This is a historically short-sighted suggestion. Women should chart their own course, not curry favor with men’s coattails. The women’s open at Sebonack, in 2013, was the type of groundbreaking achievement you should cover, not some regressive ANGC hand-me-down.
a millennial
Dec 9, 2018 at 12:53 pm
Say we have LPGA Masters @ August National, who will watch? What TV channel will broadcast?
If the equality and Deserve are issue, why dont we have one PGA tournaments consisting both sex. Then problem solved?
Of course, some will say it is NOT fair as the most fairness lies.
Thus, I totally disagree with the writer. I rather see women writer, who knows in & out of the golf history commenting on this topic. Not this dude.
Hawkeye77
Dec 8, 2018 at 10:50 pm
Click bait populist nonsense from a writer who continues to demonstrate he really doesn’t have any real sense of golf or the history of the game.
Can we get some interns to start writing here?
noble mind
Dec 8, 2018 at 7:46 pm
Hey, while we’re at it…
Why don’t we speak for the 99.9% of golfers that will NEVER play Augusta National. Yeah, isn’t that unfair? Everyone should play Augusta National – equal golf rights! Inclusivity all the way!
Not. It’s a private club. They have their own rules. They can do whatever they want. Period.
This article attempts to take a “progressive” stance by trying to solve the issue of lack of inclusivity in golf.. but really, this is as backwards as it gets. The American ideals of living in a free country where you can start your own business, create your own opportunity, and call your own shots.. is inherently progressive and what makes our country so great. That means you can start your own Augusta National, make it your own idea of a great golf course, and host a major championship that only women can play on (if you so wish). And that would be totally awesome.
Would it be cool to watch the LPGA play at Augusta National? Absolutely. But don’t ride the political coattails regarding lack of inclusivity.
JP
Dec 8, 2018 at 11:06 pm
Call it what it is… Socialism
ChipNRun
Dec 8, 2018 at 7:09 pm
Augusta National runs its own show for the Masters, so this overlap may indicate a lack of communication among Augusta, the PGA and the LPGA.
As far as slotting the LPGA event at Augusta the week BEFORE the Masters, what would this do to the course having two large tournaments back-to-back? What does the Augusta National greenskeeper think about this? That’s a lot of wear and tear on the course.
Also, coordinating the logistics for a 1+1 would be mind-boggling. Would one overall crew run both tournaments and coordinate two teams of volunteers? How would this work?
Possible the LPGA could come in two weeks AFTER the Master’s.
Bert Gwaltney
Dec 8, 2018 at 6:53 pm
The LPGA deserves nothing! Why? One comment was to have an event at Cypress Point. Good choice.
Johnny Penso
Dec 8, 2018 at 3:11 pm
“Deserve” is absolutely the wrong word to assign to this discussion. Deserve implies entitlement and there is no entitlement to play at a golf course. The discussion should revolve around whether the idea has merit on it’s face, is it good for the game of golf, good for the women’s game? etc. IMO yes it is. Augusta is arguably the most revered golf course in the world and one can argue it’s importance as a tournament as well. I made this argument the other day on a different thread about women’s golf and my point remains the same. I think it’ll be good for golf, good for the women as well and for girls coming into the game. I’d have one caveat though. It has to be a major from Day 1 and they’d have to drop a major, maybe 2. IMO both tours should have 4 majors, 6 is definitely too many.
One can argue about the event’s exclusivity being part of it’s charm but I think that’s bogus quite frankly. There will be no change to the prestige of this tournament for as long as it’s played.
I guess I’m the idiot
Dec 8, 2018 at 7:43 am
Can I ask one simple question? How did you guys feel when they first let black people play there in 1990? Wasn’t that long ago. Was it approached with the same fervent attitude as this proposal?
Brian McGranahan
Dec 8, 2018 at 1:06 pm
Lee Elder played in the Masters in 1975.
Brian McGranahan
Dec 8, 2018 at 9:20 pm
Lee Elder played The Masters in 1975. Again.
Funkaholic
Dec 10, 2018 at 11:20 am
Your guess is correct, you are in fact an idiot.
bk
Dec 8, 2018 at 6:31 am
Deserve’s got nothing to do with it. Did Martha Burke put you up to this? Grow up kid.
Frankie
Dec 8, 2018 at 1:58 am
Have it at Cypress Point instead of Augusta National because a woman found it. There’s your equality right there.
Tom
Dec 7, 2018 at 11:26 pm
LPGA = Asia Ladies Tour….no thanks!
Scott Ivlow
Dec 10, 2018 at 3:39 pm
Your statement is stupid. That like saying the Masters= the European Tour. If paid any attention there are many American women on the LPGA.
Tim
Dec 7, 2018 at 10:26 pm
Well would they have to tame the course for the women? If they did it wouldn’t really be fair would it? If the LPGA were to play it in the condition the men do for The Masters the women would get eaten up. It would not be fun to watch the LPGA women 3-4 jack most of those greens.
Bob Barker
Dec 7, 2018 at 10:01 pm
Leftist progress = Society regress
Pierre Morgan
Dec 7, 2018 at 9:55 pm
Third wave fe minism has become a cancer that is destroying the moral fabric of the West. Women are now fighting their biological imperative and are more miserable than ever trying to behave like men.
Uncle Adolf 1488
Dec 7, 2018 at 9:51 pm
Third wave femini sm pushed by the left had destroyed the moral fabric of our society. Women are natural caregivers and are not leaders, thanks to the lie that they are being held down by the patriarch they have never been more miserable. Fighting your biological imperative is never a good thing. Feminis m = cancer.
Scheiss
Dec 7, 2018 at 3:50 pm
They’ll always have Lingerie Football
Eric
Dec 7, 2018 at 7:45 pm
It’s OK to be a man. It’s OK to be a woman. It’s OK if you’re a PRIVATE club/organization to have your own rules. Go start your own Augusta or whatever and make your own rules. It’s like this country is so adverse to having ANY exclusion. I am a man and there are certain places that only women are allowed to be or join that I can’t…and I’m not going to get upset because they’re excluding me. Their private club, their rules. I’m also a male model. We get paid less than women models. WOMEN models are in higher demand, there are certain events that I can’t go to because I’m a MALE – sorry, when men start to be in higher demand, we’ll get paid more. Until then, I’ll just shut up and keep working and be thankful for the opportunities I do have.
This golf thing isn’t about who is capable of playing well and who’s not and who may or may not deserve to play blah blah. It’s about their rules, their money, their house. Stop complaining and go start your own club. LIfe isn’t fair, get over it.
Dr Troy
Dec 7, 2018 at 10:54 pm
Best post today.
JP
Dec 8, 2018 at 1:42 am
Amen brother!
Bill Parsons
Dec 7, 2018 at 2:58 pm
How many times have you picked up the remote to put on the golf channel and saw it was the LPGA on at the moment and felt super disappointed? It happens to me a lot.
Jordan
Dec 7, 2018 at 3:29 pm
Same. It’s almost like they need to be playing at better courses to make it interesting.
JP
Dec 7, 2018 at 5:36 pm
Haha. They just need to NOT televise it. I’d rather watch reruns of Feherty.
Billy p
Dec 8, 2018 at 3:13 am
They could be playing on the moon. No one cares
george
Dec 7, 2018 at 2:54 pm
Some of these comments is what is wrong with golf. Grow up and let the ladies be a part of it. Geez its just a sport and it is ok to share it with others. Didnt realize a women’s golf tournament at Augusta really gets your depends diapers in a bunch.
Jordan
Dec 7, 2018 at 10:15 pm
Thank you.
Tim Tracks
Dec 8, 2018 at 4:24 pm
Found the cuck right here. If we keep on letting women push more and more there will be nothing left of our once civilized society. Please watch the Black Piegeon Speaks video about “Why women destroy nations and other uncomfortable truths” it will help you.
^^This dude is deathly afraid of women
Dec 8, 2018 at 9:01 pm
Show me on the doll where the women hurt you Tim
Tim Tracks
Dec 9, 2018 at 9:10 am
Not an argument moron. Keep holding your head in the sand Cuck.
Tim Tracks
Dec 9, 2018 at 9:13 am
Not an argument. Keep burying your head in the sand c uck boy. It’s because of weak men like yourself the west is in the mess it is in.
Tom
Dec 7, 2018 at 1:26 pm
LPGA, WNBA same story, nobody wants to watch. No viewers, no advertisers, no interest no money….very simple.
JP
Dec 7, 2018 at 2:36 pm
Preach the TRUTH!
Mike C
Dec 7, 2018 at 1:04 pm
The problem with Augusta National hosting a women’s major is that the whole allure of Augusta is the exclusivity. If it becomes overexposed it loses it’s appeal which is the whole reason you want a tournament there to begin with.
Jamie
Dec 7, 2018 at 12:28 pm
So have a tournament for the sole purpose of catering to women? That’s sexist. Change women to men and you can see why.
Brian
Dec 7, 2018 at 3:14 pm
This doesn’t make any sense. There’s already a men’s only tournament there.
I don’t think this is how sexism works…
James Glenn
Dec 8, 2018 at 8:17 am
To be fair, it’s not specifically “men’s only.” If a woman were able to get herself into the Top 50 of the World Golf Rankings or win on the PGA Tour, they would automatically get an invite.
Fergie
Dec 7, 2018 at 11:50 am
If Augusta consents to it, I think it would be great to have an LPGA Masters there.
We’ve seen Asian players literally dominate the LPGA over the years. More emphasis on womens golf and high visibility televised events may get women more interested in golf in America. Hopefully, it would help grow the game.
At the course I play, I see an occasional female high school or college team player playing practice rounds, or, more often, older ladies playing friendly rounds with their husbands. I’d like to see more young women (not necessarily tethered to husbands) drawn to the game, invested in it.
JP
Dec 7, 2018 at 2:35 pm
Placing emphasis on something nobody cares about is pointless. And it takes away from Augusta National’s allure. It takes something that is held in high esteem and lessens it.
CaoNiMa
Dec 7, 2018 at 3:47 pm
Fergie is racist.
The fastest growing immigrant population in America is Asian
Fergie
Dec 7, 2018 at 6:33 pm
. . . And, Mexican Americans are the second fastest growing demographic.
So what?
I’m not talking about “white” women.
I’m talking about American women.
When I say Asian women, I’m talking about Koreans, Japanese, etc.
Their culture embraces women’s golf.
American culture obviously does not.
About 70% of the responses here testify to that!
Jordan
Dec 7, 2018 at 10:13 pm
Dude how do you get to that conclusion from that statement? Can you even read? Fergie is merely alluding to the challenge with amateur woman’s golf in America and how Asian countries do a better job at creating woman professional golfers currently.
Fergie
Dec 7, 2018 at 11:51 pm
Yeah, and the second fastest is Latino. So what? I said, grow the game in America, not grow the game for white women.
I’ve been married to an Asian for 27 years.
Who’s the bigot, now?
CaoNiMa
Dec 8, 2018 at 1:57 am
Prove it. Links to your home pages.
If not, then you’re just another idiot troll who’s not very smart, who just complains on a place like this, thinking that complaining behind a concealed ID is being intelligent. It’s not. You’re not.
Fergie
Dec 8, 2018 at 3:52 pm
I’m not linking you to anything, Idiot.
She’s half Chinese, half Pacific Islander. 100% naturalized US citizen.
Not a ChiCom.
CaoNiMa
Dec 8, 2018 at 4:16 pm
So no proof. All talk. All BS
I guess I’m an idiot
Dec 7, 2018 at 11:08 am
The Masters is easily my favorite major of the year, but for people to completely ignore Augusta National’s shady, racist past just shows how out of touch people are. The fact that woman who are way better than any of you will ever be, simply want an opportunity to play competitive golf at the #1 course in the world, and that is a future you wouldn’t condone, is unbelievable. What do you tell your daughters?
Jamie
Dec 7, 2018 at 12:32 pm
That you’re an idiot. Are you even capable of procreation, cakeboy? Augusta is a private club and can make its own rules. Women can start their own club and have their own tournaments. But I guess it’s just easier to tell gov to take from others and redistribute?
I guess I’m an idiot
Dec 7, 2018 at 3:28 pm
Dude, so let me understand this. Because I’m arguing that women should have the ability to play an event at the best course in the country, you’re questioning my ability to procreate?
Being a middle aged man with a name like Jamie, I can tell you’ve dealt with some shit. Either that or it sounds like some woman ran an absolute TRAIN on you at some point in your life. Sorry about that man.
Brian
Dec 7, 2018 at 3:21 pm
They tell them how to be submissive to their future husbands. They tell them to learn how to cook and clean. They tell them it’s an honor to be looked upon with desire by men. But they don’t tell them anything empowering, because that might detract from their “masculinity”.
I’m glad we’re banging the same drum here. People know it takes money to make the game grow, but no one wants to be the one to take on the big risk to help the game make money. They’ll only jump on board once it’s safe to do so. Let the women play anywhere they want to. It’s obscene that this is still considered normal and acceptable.
Keep telling the truth. You’re one of the good ones.
Scheiss
Dec 7, 2018 at 3:49 pm
Two words, Idiot:
Lingerie Football
alexdub
Dec 7, 2018 at 10:53 am
Interesting that you reference the need for inclusivity in the sport. Isn’t that what ANGC has done with the amateur women’s event? Although professional women’s golf is noticeably short-sided with respect to coverage and attention in the golf world, women’s golf at the amateur level is discriminated and excluded at an exponentially higher level. Outside of the inclusion of women in USGA events and the widespread adoption of women’s golf at the collegiate level, ANGC’s new amateur event might be considered one of the most significant milestones ever in women’s golf.
Snowflakes suck
Dec 7, 2018 at 10:45 am
It’s a private club. They can do whatever the hell they want.
If you don’t like it, then maybe you should work your ass off and become a millionaire, then get invited by having a select group of friends in the right places and change their ways.
Until then…Get lost, losers.
eric
Dec 7, 2018 at 7:53 pm
“It’s a private club. They can do whatever the hell they want.
If you don’t like it, then maybe you should work your ass off and become a millionaire, then get invited by having a select group of friends in the right places and change their ways.
Until then…Get lost, losers.”
This a billion times over. I’ll never play Augusta. LIfe isn’t fair, I’ll get over it and someday I’ll die.
Clay
Dec 7, 2018 at 10:44 am
It would be fun to watch the LPGA play at Augusta, BUT it is a private club and they hold the right to pick and choose who plays their course. Why do we continue to attack private organizations in this country?
Jordan's still an idiot
Dec 7, 2018 at 10:46 am
Because people are morons.
JP
Dec 7, 2018 at 2:38 pm
These same people would embrace socialism.
Don’t earn it, b*#%ch about it until it’s given to you…
This guy ^^^
Dec 7, 2018 at 3:37 pm
Bahhhhhhhh GET OFF MY LAWN!!!
I guess I’m the idiot
Dec 7, 2018 at 11:13 am
Absolutely let them choose. It’s their club do what they want. Just don’t be surprised to get backlash. It took them until 1983 to stop exclusively using staffed black caddies. So I figure we’re on pace for an LPGA event by 2038?
AL
Dec 7, 2018 at 7:12 pm
News flash shit happened in the past and they corrected it. You dont like it stop watching Augusta events. Im sick of dumb ass people constantly beating a dead horse. I laugh when idiots act like men hate women or something. Women ARE NOT discriminated against. Mens entire lives are dedicated to making women happy. We all have mothers and wives and girlfriends who we love. Hell most of the time its the people crying foul who are really the non tolerant hateful types who cant stand anyone who speaks the truth to them. How about we have real equality and just allow anyone and everyone play in one league?
Jordan
Dec 7, 2018 at 10:41 am
Some of these comments are amazing. I figure we have 20 more years of these old blowhards before they start dying off. After they suck social security dry of course.
Jordan's an idiot
Dec 7, 2018 at 10:42 am
Dear idiot,
They paid into Social Security just like you and I. Are you saying they don’t deserve it?
Jordan
Dec 7, 2018 at 10:55 am
It’s not our problem these good ole boy traditionalists were 1 of 8-10 siblings who all have zero future translatable workforce skills that they have to bleed social programs dry all because the future is “changing too fast for them”. But atelast they’ll get to watch good ole boys play golf at Augusta once a year.
T
Dec 7, 2018 at 10:29 am
How do you write an article supporting the LPGA and not include any of the 4 players ranked above Lexi Thompson that aren’t American as “worldwide superstars”? Nothing against Lexi, Lydia Ko and Michelle Wie but the international players are easily the biggest worldwide draw for the LPGA. This is super transparent and pretty clearly written by somebody who doesn’t watch much LPGA golf.
Thomas A
Dec 7, 2018 at 10:21 am
Bring it on. Let the old guard fade away in their stubborn stupidity as they should.
Yep, Jordan's still an idiot
Dec 7, 2018 at 10:49 am
Private club’s can do whatever they want. It has nothing to do with “The old guard”
Dr Troy
Dec 7, 2018 at 10:09 am
No….No….No….They have their own venues. Sorry, not sorry.
Brian McGranahan
Dec 7, 2018 at 10:05 am
An SJW at his worst.
Why can’t the LPGA have it’s own majors. Why do some women and other SJW think women have to ride the coattails of men, i.e the wnba, lpga, wta?
Why aren’t the 5 majors they already have enough?
Marcus Aurelius
Dec 7, 2018 at 10:31 am
If I could somehow super like this comment.. I would. It is OK to have separate venues for men and women. “Progress” has been overused and weaponized to push leftist narratives and disrupt normal behavior – along with many other made up neologisms of the 21st century, especially those ending in ‘ist’,’ia’ and ‘obe’.
Jordan
Dec 7, 2018 at 10:46 am
Women who are way better than you’ll ever be want to play competitive golf at the best course in the world, and you’re saying this is apart of a liberal narrative? WHAT?!
Also, who the hell are you to say what “normal behavior” is in the first place?
Jesus I hope you don’t have a daughter. She’s probably either a maid, seamstress, or a midwife by now.
JD
Dec 7, 2018 at 10:58 am
Who are you and why are you dictating what normal is?
Marcus Aurelius
Dec 7, 2018 at 11:11 am
Irrelevant comment – I’m not ‘dictating’ anything. Although I know who you are.. A soy-boy that probably cucks on most issues.
JD
Dec 7, 2018 at 11:19 am
Very active republican from the great state of Ohio. I think you’ve floated a little too far right of the bell curve though sir. Come back over a little more towards middle. It’s peaceful over here.
Marcus Aurelius
Dec 7, 2018 at 11:26 am
No bro, you need to wake up. You probably wont and continue your life as an NPC unfortunately.
david forsythe
Dec 7, 2018 at 10:01 am
Who is this kid? “….its murky past”.
Stop please.
sm
Dec 7, 2018 at 10:52 am
Yes murky..http://articles.latimes.com/1990-09-11/sports/sp-437_1_augusta-national-golf-club
JP
Dec 7, 2018 at 9:46 am
I disagree.
I also think it was wrong to ever let a female play Augusta National. The old ways had it right.
Golfer Girl
Dec 7, 2018 at 10:42 am
As a female who has had the privilege of playing Augusta National, to someone who probably never will, kindly f off.
JP
Dec 7, 2018 at 2:31 pm
metoo privileged.
Jordan
Dec 7, 2018 at 3:46 pm
To help you, this was about sexual abuse, and we’re talking about golf here. Keep it together JP!!!
I bet you were real confused when you forgot why you burned all your Nike stuff too.
JP
Dec 7, 2018 at 10:39 pm
I burned my nike shyyt because Kaepernig acts like an unpatriotic pig
Yes sirrr
Dec 8, 2018 at 8:56 pm
I feel like you could benefit from a good ass kicking. I think it would really help you.
Jordan
Dec 7, 2018 at 3:43 pm
Change scares the shit out of these people. That’s awesome you got to play there.
Now I’m going to go play an afternoon 9 with the Mrs. (she’s a 5 handicap, I know I’m blessed)