Cool. Now we just need to allow people to transition before puberty, and we’re all sorted.
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If they dont enforce gender roles, how can they make money pointlessly gendering things. Pay women less by having a women's league, make more money by selling women's tees, etc. Golf is a grift that never ends.
Women can play in the "men's" league currently, right? So are you proposing that they do away with the women-only league? Despite that being a blow to capitalism, it will be devastating to professional female golfers.
I'm a bit lost, what's being pointlessly gendered, am not a golfist.
The PGA is open to all genders and therefore is more competitive which will always bring more views thus more money. The LPGA is exclusionary based on gender and therefore less competitive and will bring less money and viewers.
You should be happy the less exclusionary league brings in more money unless you love discrimination.
Seems like it may be difficult to prove someone "transitioned before male puberty". Its not like puberty hits in a day and all of the sudden your voice is deeper and your skin turns bright purple.
Well, I wouldn’t expect golf to be the most progressive sport anyway. Actually, I wouldn’t expect any major sport to be very progressive with such huge amounts of money involved.
For golf though? I isn't golf more about strategic use of speed, angle, and pitch? Where does gender have a place? Strength is not much of a factor which is why fat old people play it. If any sport should be gender neutral it would be golf.
Even NASCAR is gender neutral, and that needs strength for turning the wheel. According to a quick Google search:
but it's different from the power steering in a typical vehicle. NASCAR cars are heavier and more difficult to turn than other cars. Drivers must use a lot of strength, stamina, and mental focus to turn a race car for 400–500 miles.
Race car driving is physically demanding and requires a lot of hand-eye coordination, strength, and endurance. The high speeds and unique engineering of race cars make turning and braking require more force. Drivers use the muscles in their arms, upper body, and legs to control the vehicle.
Geoff Bodine introduced power steering to NASCAR in 1991. Drivers have experienced power steering issues during races, including Daniel Suárez and Harrison Burton.
Have you ever golfed?
There are literally mens tees and women's tees (and usually kids tees, too)
Women's tees are closer to the hole. (Kids are closest)
Uh, no. This about professional golf. There aren’t “fat old people” playing on the pro tours. Strength is very much a factor. LPGA courses are shorter. Women’s average drive distance is about 45 yds shorter than the average for men.
You obviously don’t understand golf and made a lot of assumptions there. This a fairly reasonable rule. Probably unnecessary but better than an outright ban.
John Daly would disagree. 
I would think so too, but looks like average golfing handicaps do still differ pretty dramatically between the genders. Golf is a very male dominated sport and I feel like that might be a major factor, but the numbers we've collected thus far do point to a difference. Not a big golfer, but the only thing I can think of is maybe driving hit range but, I wouldn't think that could be responsible for the difference alone.
Some of it is down to biology (more strong muscle, me hit ball further) some to womens equipment being more of an afterthought, and a good deal down to the disparity in practice / coaching time. It's not one single factor, but it is a big one that does impact how a.rpund is played. Not arguing the ethics of the above rule, I don't think I have a particularly good solution, just these are the factors in the sport.
The PGA is open for men and women. The LPGA is only open for women. The fact that there are no women in the PGA is proof that golf is not gender neutral.