I believe that we need to revamp Professional Golf. It unfairly rewards white males from priviledged backgrounds who had access to private country clubs. Also according to our soon to be Supreme Court Justice it is racist because people of color are far underrepresented. Doesn't matter if the system has been in place for as long as it has it is racist for fact. Therefore the PGA must conform to society as a whole and use quotas to restructure the field of every future tournament according to race and ethnicity. Each professional golf tournament must also enact stiff handicapping rules to make sure that each and every golfer has an equal chance of winning the tournament before they tee off. Women must make up over 50% of every field as they do in our society and they also must be allowed to golf from the front tees. The field must also include seniors so as not to unfairly discriminate against them. Finally every day of the tournament the handicaps need to be reworked so that those who did well on the previous day will have to bear a greater burden by having the amount of strokes either reduced in the case where they are receiving them or they must give more strokes to those who did not play as well as their handicap level.
This new law will of course be pushed to all levels of the PGA including teaching pros since there are far to few teaching pros of color. Those pros who are better than others will and have a greater number of students will have to forfit a higher percentage of their students to the pool that will be created to provide students for the new teaching pros that will now be added to the profession. Of course a certain number of white male teaching pros will be relieved of their jobs because they have been discriminating against people of color for so long solely based on the fact that the PGA membership does not reflect the make up of the US society. Of course a certain percentage of the new pros must also be illegal aliens.
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Mark that was great and well thought out I commend you for your humor and I get the point.
Golf is truly the last true sport, everyone starts out the year with $0.00 income and depending on your level of play and hard work you earn money accordingly. But don't forget at the end of each round of golf, you must sign your card attesting to the fact that you never moved your ball, or cheated in any way. The game is played over acres of property without rules officials and most times players call the rules on themselves unheard of in other sports. Also players have for years donated parts of their winnings or sometimes all of their winnings to charity. Scott Hoch 150,000 first place check to the Arnold Palmer Hospital in Orlando. Gary Player his entire first place check to charity back in the 1960's, so the point is honorable men do honorable things.
Everyone who has ever played the game knows you " can't buy " a good golf game you have to earn it. The access to hard work to golf clubs,to golf properties is available to all albeit the wealthy has some advantages to better facilities. The leading money winner and player is black and did not share all the breaks other players had, but he made it. I believe judge Sotomeyer has made it clear access should be fair but once inside the game it should not be rigged.
I happen to agree with you about the front tees for ladies, if the argument is about strengh and distance, I have always been a short hitter and have had to work harder on my short game so that I can get it up and down on par 5's where other players reach in two. I believe all players regardless of strengh or size should play from the same tees. As in life we should all be able to have access to the game, but once it starts everybody plays from the same tees.
Your belief about Judge Sotamayer is wrong. She does not believe there should be a level playing field. Her statements and some of her written opinions clearly point out that the resulting racial makeup of a group is more important than equal access in her world.
My point is also that your boy, Barry, is trying to do this to the rest of our society. Why shouldn't it be applied to the Golf profession as well? If it is wrong for golf than it is wrong for our society as well.
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