This
Week at TravelGolf.com: November 29, 2005
Is Fred Funk wearing a skirt
what pro golf needs in 2005?
Every male hacker who's unleashed a wicked sideways slice or a
towering popup that kept going and going until it finally plopped back
down - right behind him - knows what coming up short of the ladies tees
on your drive is bound to unleash. The jokes can bring you back to
junior high.
Somebody might suggest that the offender play the rest of the hole
with his pants around his ankles. (Why some golfers would be so eager to
see that always struck me as a little strange, but hey whatever floats
your 9 iron.) The point is there's shame to be had and belly chuckles to
be let loose.
You didn't even make the ladies tees, you wimp. It's all in good fun. As long as there are not any actual women
in your group. Then, some of those jokes tend to be a little muted, with
flies staying zipped.
Except apparently when it comes to the best golfers in the world.
For there was Annika
Sorenstam gleefully pulling out a pink skirt for Fred Funk to wear
when his drive fell short of hers in the
Skins Game Saturday.
Is this really how pro golf wants to conduct itself in 2005? Should the No. 1 women's player in the world be so pumped up that
she outdrove a PGA Tour afterthought? After all, he's Fred Funk and
she's Annika
Sorenstam. Is it still such news in 2005 that Annika Sorenstam can
outdrive Fred Funk?
So much for women's golf having come a long way.
It's one thing for Tiger
Woods to get all frat boy giddy about the idea of a woman outdriving
Funk. Tiger told Funk he'd never live it down if Sorenstam hit the ball
past his. Of course, this is the same Tiger who told a few off-color
jokes in GQ magazine the last time he hinted he had a personality.
Tiger's sense of humor obviously runs toward the
pants-around-your-ankles thing. Nothing wrong with that, per se. Nor is there any problem with Funk suggesting a bet with Sorenstam
in which he'd wear a skirt an entire hole if she outdrove him. Once
again, he's Fred Funk and showing some "fun-loving antics" is the only
way he ever gets invited to the Skins Game.
The problem comes in Sorenstam so eagerly jumping in. ""I thought it
was a great idea," Sorenstam told the Associated Press. "I said, 'I'm
in, I'm cool.'"
Ah -- not so cool. What message is Sorenstam sending about women's
golf when she's so excited about outdriving any man? Are the young kids
watching supposed to take that there's still skirt-wearing shame
attached to being bested by a woman in the age of Michelle
Wie?
No one talks golf more lightly
than I do. But this one struck me as more stereotypically Neanderthal
than fun.
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