No joke here. They're wonderful and they've helped thousands of people, with everything from youth sports clinics to defraying the travel costs for local teams participating in outside tournaments and camps. They help make Tucson a better place to live. Golf needs noise and lots of it. It'll never be taken seriously as a sport until it has unruly fans.
Cheerleaders are generally annoying, but maybe that's what golf needs.
Heck, if you took all the cheerleaders away from football games and put them at golf tournaments, you'd make both games better. A time clock. Just think if it didn't matter how many times you hit the ball, but who gets the ball in the cup first. Now that would be sport. Imagine everybody teeing off at the same time, then fighting their way through the mob to find their ball and hit it again.