The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-21
Tee, Fairway and Green
By CHICK EVANS
WOMEN ARE FAVORED


 "NHE conditions under which
 women play golf offer every
 A opportunity to make of the woman player superfine player, and that is why so many girl players now are coming to the front and into the attention of the sport world.
 The very conditions which women mistakenly think to be responsible for making the game most difficult are the conditions that will sharpen up their golf so remarkably fast, if they understand the mental attitude they should maintain. Golf is not an art, for few of the blessed of the earth. It is science, to be acquired by the persevering. One thing has been proved beyond all doubt, and that is that there are no physical linn itations to keep the girl player from becoming really expert at golf.
 There was a time not so long ago when women played golf in the best way they could in plain imitation of the way men played it. Lacking the masculine strength, the woman's game was not much to behold. She swept the ball along with a sort of shove of the club, seeking only to avoid the traps. If she accomplished a hole in 10 or 12 strokes it was fairly good. Then some girl players began to find out what men players had long since learned-that the girl had to devise different ways of play ing, observing things and learning for herself. She began to found her style on sound principles for the woman golfer. She began to realize the reason why for each definite part of her style and she had an exact nf lrb rbtrh ct vi !, as 1t was.
 Develop Own Style
 Thus 1t is that any woman golfer who has the patience and ambition to study out for herself the science of the game as it relates to her can make of herself an excellent player She cannot do this by initiating the man player, but only by developing her own game along lines of style which have been proved fundamen- tally right for the woman golfer.
 The first obstacle the woman must face on the golf course is the condi- tion under which she must play that is, on the full-sized mans course. Undoubtedly, the golf course for women should be shorter, but it isn't. We haven't any Ncourses exclusively TOT women, so the woman players first problem is to turn this disad- vantage into an advantage. Know ing that great distances must be ac- complished will aid the woman player to grasp more quickly than the man. l think, the fundamental fact that not physical strength, but rythm, Is the factor of the stroke that sends the ball flying far and true. It takes some men long time to get this Idea into their minds, and some never get it. The woman player is in the posi- tion of having to grasp 1t quickly.
 The fact that women must play the full-sized long courses is a fine thing, all told, for the woman golfer. Because of this fact l look for an army of fine girl players to come on in the game within the next few years. The girl who takes up golf however, must not let the fact of the conditions she meets be a discourage- ment. On the contrary, she must recognize it as blessing in disguise which it will surely prove to be when the outdoor training makes it possible for her to negotiate the en- tire distance without fatigue.
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