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In reply to the discussion: As an avid baseball fan, I expect to someday see female players and coaches [View all]Calista241
(5,595 posts)A couple years ago, Annika Sorenstam tried to play against men on the PGA tour. Sorenstam, at the time, was probably the most dominant female on the LPGA tour. She'd won several Player of the Year awards, and won most of the important majors and other tournaments on the Ladies tour. She won an ESPY for Best Female Athlete from ESPN.
This was golf, a game where technique is important and brute strength less so. In general, the men's tees are about 1000 yards longer than the women's tees on the same course, and this fact is probably what keeps women from competing on the PGA tour. The course has to be long so the players don't drive the green on PAR 4's and birdie every par 4 on the course, and eagle every par 5.
During the one Men's event she competed in, at the height of her career in 2003, she didn't make the cut halfway through the event. She finished 96th out of 111 players to compete at the event.