The LPGA has had to struggle hard for parity. Finding their place in the traditionally male world of golf meant adopting strict rules of their own. In order to comply, one club's official used 22 baskets of fresh flowers to turn his facility's urinals into flower holders. But that's not the point. The point is that men should be able to have flowers in some though certainly not all of their urinals as well.
Equity has to be a two-way street.
Let's make this co-ed thing work. After all, too many men on golf courses are fleeing healthy contact with women. It is probably of some importance then that women get out to where the men are hiding. Probably LPGA pros who want to be viewed as professional athletes and not Madison Avenue sex objects like tennis' Anna Kournikova. Still, top players like Sweden's Annika Sorenstam, LPGA Player of the Year for '98, and Korea's Se Ri Pak, winner of the U.S. Women's Open, come close to assuming the role of tour cover girl.