I am student doing research on why do women golf over age fifty - seeking spiritual and emotional reasons?
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I not a woman but have seen lots of women at age over fifty play and enjoy golf. I would say that it is the same reason as any of their male companion want to play. Golf is a life time game and anyone can play until they can't walk or can't hold up the club anymore. Particularly if you are over fifty, there's not much outdoor that give good exercise left other than golf.\n\nBesides, it is a good socialising sport for all age.
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I think you have an excellent set of clubs. It seems you made the right choices putting them togeather.\n\nHowever it doesnt matter what any one else things , it only matters what you think and I believe you feel very good about the set.\n\nYour freshman golf team is going to get a great new addition, just relax and play your own game when trying out.\n\nGood luck and see you on the PGA tour in about 10 years.\n\nLeon
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I have played most field games and at competitive levels in college. I got to play golf only in my early thirty's and this is one of the only regretts I will have in an otherwise fulfilling life.\n The game had taught me many lessons on the course including man management ( Caddies ) that I have adopted to my daily life. Metal resolve and steely nerves in dire situations are the first traits to be lost and Golf has taught me over the years how to hold on to them.\nI do agree that prior to my golfing days it appeared to be an old mans past time, how wrong I was. \nOne has to have skills and physical fitness to get to a decent level of play ( single digit handicap). The only friends who hate the game are ones who are no good at it. They are either too stiff or do not have the patience to learn the skills needed to hit a stationery ball.\nIt instills a great confidence in ones outlook to life and I hope my family also benifit from the game as I have done. \nA definite winner all the way. borring?? how is it spelt?\nNo wonder It is the highest paying sport which can be played by one and all
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Very good question. In the UK it used to be the case that if you wanted to play the game you had to be a club member. Now there are hundreds of clubs that welcome golfers on a "Pay and play" basis and membership really isn't necessary. However being a club member does give you a social group which you might enjoy and it will bring other privileges. If you want to join a "prestigious" club you will need to be a decent golfer and have plenty of loot. It could cost you upwards of £1500 a year, and you need to play a lot of golf to make this pay! Another option is to join one or more golf societies (there are hundreds) - these often play at lots of different courses and there is a social element as well. Subscriptions are usually nominal and green fees good value.\n\nThe traditional golf clubs can be very snobbish and not particularly welcoming to new members. Some even don't allow women members or segregate women in the clubhouse.\n\nYou pays your money and makes your choice. The atmosphere at some clubs is very good and if you enjoy competitions and are happy with familiar faces in the 19th hole then membership might be what you would like. If you just want to play the game from time to time there are other options these days.
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Depends.  A lot of great baseball players also have a good golf game.  Some people who are not very athletic may have trouble.
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I think both of those statements are false.  We can be thankful for anyone who helps support the golf courses.  They golf coures need as many players as they can get, a lot of golf course are fixing to go under.  Why would you care?  Just worry about your own game and what clubs you play
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Are you asking where would the top women players fit in the men's ranks? I'll assume that's the question, but please clarify if that is not the case.\nFirst, I am glad that Billie Jean King had the sense to avoid this comparison, and to establish the women's tour as a phenomenon that stands on its own merits. I love women's tennis, and don't care if they are able to compete effectively against the men.\nHaving said that, there is ample evidence that the top women would not be able to compete successfully against the men's pros. Billie Jean King beat a 55-year-old man (who previously beat another top woman, Margaret Smith). There just is too much difference in speed of foot and spin and pace of the ball. The top women players of today would almost certainly be unsuccessful in the men's tour, whether the main events or satellites. \nMale players often play practice matches against top women, and I think you will find that even good college players will beat all or nearly all of the women.\nThis is not to diminish in any way the quality of women's tennis, which is tremendous. I just know that to date the top women would not be close to being competitive against male pros.
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Your best bet for this is the National Golf Foundation, which constantly surveys on this and other golf related subjects. Over the last decade the annual increase in golfers (which is defined as playing at least 8-10 rounds a year) is about 1%. \n\nIt spiked higher in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but in recent years it has fallen back a bit. Between 2003 and 2004 the statistics indicated a drop of about 3.9% which eliminated some of the earlier gains.\n\nWhile there are more courses around, there are still issues centering around cost to play and time it takes to play.
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That would be a GREAT idea... for someone to create forum/blog independently hosted with anonymous user ratings, kind of like eBay feedback.  Golf instructors are typically under-qualified  in my opinion.  There are merely a handful that really worth their salt.  One acid test I use is whether the instructor has a grasp that golf cannot be explictly "taught"... the learning, for any player, comes thru self-discovery and experience.  The instructor's role is to convey WHAT needs to happen in a cause/effect fashion, but there are numerous ways to "implement" a given what. And more over, the verbage rarely translates into "feel".  You can't explain "feel"... but rather guide a student to constructively acquire feel thru guidance.  Finally, I feel instruction RARELY touches on the mental aspect of both playing and learning.  What constitutes good practice??  How to play under pressure...  My list of rants goes on and on... so YES, I think an objective reviewing source would be fantastic.  Other comments?
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Have you tried adult (read that senior citizen) clubs? That seems to be a good source.
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Check out Yahoo Golf Groups or Craigs list .
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I am a woman and may be the only one who agrees with you.  I think the gals like Michelle Wie are trying to challenge themselves at the ultimate level- against the men.  I am not happy that sponsors of the PGA and Nationwide events are giving them invites- this takes away from the men players that maybe have conditional status on either tour but have worked hard through Q school and such and really deserve the spot.  Men are not allowed on the LPGA (nor would they want to play on it- less money-etc...) but it is more the principal.  But the PGA ONLY cares about TV ratings... so they will pay whatever to have the crowds.  Anyway- sorry to my fellow sisters!
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Asked and answered many times my man....see here:\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=AlyceLVF1Z0Z0kyra7w9MWLzy6IX?p=golf+fore
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i am going to watch this Q i am a 40ish happly married women who ia also afaird to fly .. my husband has and loves it... i've been told a hyptonise so i shall watch for your A's good luck fellow fearsom flyer
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What does this have to do with Golf?
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i love tennis. used to play when i was younger. after i got married my husband play golf so now my latest kind of sports that i like is golf! i'm still new though...
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See http://www.scottishgolfhistory.net/golf_word.htm