08.03.07
The Women Take Over St. Andrews!
For the first time ever, St. Andrews is hosting a professional women’s golf tournament, the 2007 British Open. Not only are the women playing the fabled St. Andrews course, they are also able to enter the Royal & Ancient Club clubhouse behind the first tee. This is a remarkable step for the stodgy membership of the Royal & Ancient who has historically not been open to having women in their clubhouse. Obviously this is a huge step forward for the R&A and one that was badly needed. Too bad they are only implementing this change for one week!
The women, so far, seem to be enjoying playing the Old Course. The golf at St. Andrews is so different from what they are used to playing in the US. “The greens are very strange and interesting,” said Wie, who tied for 69th at last week’s Evian Masters. “They’re like Mount Everest on the greens basically, and you have to putt from 50 yards away. It’s just so amazing. It is the greatest honor being able to play here. It’s intimidating because there’s so much history on it.”
I really enjoy watching the players on the links-style courses. The types of shots required to score well on these courses differ drastically from the perfectly manicured country club courses the LPGA (and PGA) usually host their tournaments on. Its fun to watch the creativity and shot-making skills needed to hit out of deep pot bunker or putt over a huge mound in the middle of the green. Wake up early this weekend and check out the tournament on TV…it will be worth your time!
Theresa said,
August 8, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Why then is there not female avatars? Several women friends who have played the game mention this.
rich said,
August 8, 2007 at 12:49 pm
We will definitely be adding women avatars for the full version of the World Golf Tour. For our Beta version we simply didn’t have time to put in all of the avatars we had hoped to include. You will definitely be able to select from a wider range of avatars in the future…including women!
OFC_KraftyT said,
August 27, 2007 at 7:45 pm
I had the same comment, why are there no female players to pick from.
Ted said,
August 27, 2007 at 8:13 pm
Believe me we really wanted to add female avatars for the beta but given our time constraints we could not get it into the release. We know this is important and will have more avatars and females to chose from in the full version.