Golf: The Woman's Game

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Full of Wonders!.......2001-05-08

This book has easily accessible information, really interesting stories, fabulous archival photographs, good insights into women golfers, and just the nicest TONE. Would be good for experienced golfers, for those just starting, and for those who might enjoy reading about the history of the sport from the distaff side. A good book to read when you're waiting for someone else to finish a round, or to inspire you to get out there and swing that club!

Babe: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias (Sport and Society)

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Well written,sensitive book about superb athlete
Interesting Read of Champion Who Doesn't Get Enough PR
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The work of a gifted writer and teacher who did her homework
A great analysis of Babe's life, times, & women's sports

Babe: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias (Sport and Society)
Susan E. Cayleff
Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
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ASIN: 025206593X

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Well written,sensitive book about superb athlete.......2003-07-05

THis is one of the best sports biographies I have read.Its very well written, very unbiased,sensitive and portrays an accurate picture of this amazing human being. Its also a fun read and reveals a side of the Babe,her pranks,egocentric often annoying style, that few knew.In my mind she surely was the greatest woman,s athlete and this book truly does her justice.You won,t be disappointed

Interesting Read of Champion Who Doesn't Get Enough PR.......2002-01-12

Amazing champion this lady was. Her accomplishments in a short life are dazzling. Like many others naturally gifted with athleticism and a burning desire to compete and win, Babe did just that.

This is well written, but suffers from my own perspective with an underlying desire to document how cruel and unmodern Babe's cultural times were to not allow lesbian relationships to be openly exposed and women to be subjected to conformity.

We live in just the reversal, where abnormality shines brightly as acceptable or even desirable, and where has this sexual revolution gotten our society?

Babe loved the game of golf, and my interest was primarily in this achievement area of her career. She should deserve more recognition as one of the game's truly greats!

Good........1999-10-21

Since I am from Beaumont, Texas (South Park) and a fan of the BABE, I found the book a very interesting read. I was unaware of the Babe's relationship with Betty Dodd; however, I feel that an individual's sexual life is their own business. I can't help but wonder how the author could have been sure of their special relationship without ever being in the same bedroom with them??? Changing her colostomy bag is hardly a sexual act, but the type of action from a nurse, close relative or friend.

The work of a gifted writer and teacher who did her homework.......1999-08-23

As a former student of Dr. Susan Cayleff, I found the book to be a wonderful and informative read. Knowing Dr. Cayleff and her constant search for truth and knowledge of women and their accomplishments, this book is one more testament to her thoroughness, her brilliance as an academic, and the passions that she imbues in her students - - the fire of wanting to know more about women,who and what they are, who and what they have been, and who and what they can become. Anything that Dr. Cayleff writes stands as witness to her intellect, her love of the written word, and her desire to spread the joyous news of women's feats and accomplishments. Is it any wonder that this book was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize? Keep them coming Susan. The next one will be terrific too, after all, I had the opportunity to be one of your research assistants for the next book. Thank you for all of it, the books, the awareness that you instilled and inspired in so many of your students and readers, for your caring about humanity in general, and women in particular.

A great analysis of Babe's life, times, & women's sports.......1999-01-29

Cayleff has thoroughly researched and documented Babe's life and times. She conducted extensive interviews with surviving members of Babe's family, friends, and partner (Betty Dodd). Cayleff also incorporated massive amounts of journalistic accounts--sports writers, magazines accounts, etc. This is not a fluff biography--the book will teach you about what it meant to be a woman in Babe's time, what it meant to be a female athlete, and how Babe managed--and manipulated--these things. Babe fans will learn more about her, and scholars will be able to follow up on Cayleff's work through her extensive endnotes. This is the first book to tell of Babe's relationship with Betty Dodd, but Cayleff does not label it "lesbian." That is because Babe herself never did. Remember that this was the 1950s. They were life partners, spouses. The loved each other. Cayleff's book is important for bringing this relationship to light, as well as many other hidden realities of Didrikson's life--her heroism as an "out" cancer patient (when it was taboo to talk about it), as well as how Babe manipulated the press. As dozens of published book review has stated (see quotes above at this cite), this is absolutely THE most extensive research ever done on Babe. I've seen rave reviews of the book in SOJOURNER, WEST COAST WOMAN, WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS, and SPORTS HISTORY REVIEW, among many others.

The Battle for Augusta National: Hootie, Martha, and the Masters of the Universe

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Interesting Summary of the Events
Clash of Cultures at the Cathedral in the Pines
Very good, but...
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The Battle for Augusta National: Hootie, Martha, and the Masters of the Universe
Alan Shipnuck
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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ASIN: 0743255003

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The controversy began with a seemingly innocuous private letter, and spiraled into the biggest media event in golf history. The Augusta National membership dispute dominated headlines and watercooler conversation for nearly a year, propelled by twenty-first-century hot-button issues and a pair of perfectly drawn foils in Hootie Johnson and Martha Burk. But a year after Burk's messy Masters week protest, the meaning of the membership controversy remains elusive. In The Battle for Augusta National, Alan Shipnuck -- who reinvented the PGA Tour narrative with the rollicking Bud, Sweat, & Tees -- provides the definitive account of what really happened and why.

In this lively, irreverent, ambitious book, Shipnuck chases the story from the chairman's office at Augusta National to the living room of the One Man Klan, along the way bringing to life a vivid cast of characters and revealing subplots aplenty. With meticulous reporting and penetrating insights, Shipnuck provides a nuanced look into the complex and contradictory worlds of Hootie and Martha, who were drawn together like moths to a flame; reveals Augusta National's secret plots to undermine the press and the accompanying turmoil at The New York Times, including an exclusive interview with the Times's disgraced executive editor, Howell Raines; and explores the Southern politics that led to Burk's Masters week banishment, drawing on Senate confirmation hearings and campaign contribution documents to link local politicians and a federal judge to Augusta National.

From Tiger Woods to Jack Welch, Sandra Day O'Connor to Bryant Gumbel, Treasury Secretary Snow to Jesse Jackson, the gang's all here in this withering look at a story that never stopped churning.

Along the way, many of the membership controversy's mysteries are revealed. How did Augusta National's top-secret membership roll become public? Who was the shadowy protester identified by hoodwinked reporters as Heywood Jablome? Did Burk lie about a vast right-wing conspiracy to undermine her demonstration? All of this and much more can be found in The Battle for Augusta National, a book that captures the passion and absurdity of a great national debate that continues to simmer.

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Interesting Summary of the Events.......2007-02-25

This is a golf jock book. Mr. Shipnuck, an experienced sports journalist, gives us his take on the Augusta National/women's membership issue that Hootie Johnson (no relation) and Martha Burk stirred up in connection with the 2003 Masters golf tournament. The author's breezy, colorful writing style lends itself well to an event that ultimately became more of a media circus, at least short-term, than anything socially significant. As a golfer and golf fan I'd followed the goings on with some interest at the time, but still learned a lot I hadn't known before, such as the Haywood J. (a name conspicuously omitted from the book's index) episode, the role played by N.Y. Times, and the one man Klan, among others. I also learned that Augusta National Golf Club is organized as a for-profit Georgia business corporation (Augusta National, Incorporated). That does not by itself invalidate Augusta National's "private club" argument, but does shed another light on the situation. I'd be interested to know how more about the club's organization, governance and finances, but there's no chance of that.

Clash of Cultures at the Cathedral in the Pines.......2006-03-16

Great Book....relives and recounts one of the most intriguing political, cutural and sports controversies of our day....a very human accounting of Martha, Hootie and all those poor, somewhat innocent souls, caught up in their battle, a battle of The Hallowed Ways vs. the New Age. Fascinating book, especially the parts about the New York Times' (Howell Raines') agenda journalism and how the National as it is called took on Raines and the Times and "won." Has all the PR overtones of a Presidential campaign, only in the world of sport. Good book, even if the reader isn't a particulary big golf fan. Even a political junkie would enjoy this one...Give Mr. Shipnuck a birdie on this effort.

Very good, but..........2004-06-05

I live in Augusta, rent my house out during Masters Week, but don't play golf or belong to Augusta National. This book is well-written and fascinating, with a few flaws. The author tries to cover a lot of stories in one book: the sport of golf generally, Augusta National, the Masters, Hootie Johnson, Martha Burk, press coverage of the controversy (including the subsequent implosion of the New York Times), and the community of Augusta. The first six are well done (except he gives Martha Burk a pass -- she has some amazingly radical ideas and positions he did not cover) and is far too kind to her. (She vanished completely at the 2004 Masters, which he does not mention). The last topic fails miserably. The author does not understand the South or Southern hospitality. He is shocked that we have an old Confederate monument on Broad Street downtown. Well, show me a town in the South that doesn't! No one here, black or white, gets very excited about it and hasn't for decades. He does not understand (or make an effort to understand) the connections a Federal judge would legitimately have with the local community in a small town. He neglects the local angle to the story and distorts what he does not neglect. The book is full of careless editorial errors -- in one sentence he refers to Fort Dixon in New Jersey (which is actually Fort Dix) and Fort Devin Massachusets (Fort Devens), errors he could have corrected with minimal care, then jumps all over other writers for confusing Augusta National and Augusta Country Club. This kind of thing makes one wonder about the accuracy of the rest of the book, in the areas which I am not so familiar with. Overall a good read, and reasonably balanced.

Culture Clash Behind The Ropes.......2004-04-29

Alan Shipnuck has made himself into one of golf's snarkier voices with his classic shaggy-dog-story "Bud Sweat & Tees" and his sometimes barbed, often candid commentary for Sports Illustrated. So what is he doing writing a sober account of one of golf's loudest social controversies? Is he trying to be John Feinstein all of a sudden?

Actually, the motivation is purer. Shipnuck offers a detached, analytical view of what exactly happened when the Augusta National Golf Club, site of the Masters, refused demands that it admit women members.

"Hootie Johnson has four daughters," one woman tells a reporter. "How does he sleep at night?"

While some bashed Hootie, Augusta's chairman and the voice of the gender ban, others excoriated Martha Burk, the activist whose cry for membership equality seemed at times a personal crusade. Ultimately, it came down to how people felt about things like abortion, equal pay in the office, glass ceilings, female circumcision, anything but golf.

That's about my only problem with Shipnuck's book. I want him writing about golf, not peripheral culture issues like this. He overblows the importance of this particular story. But Shipnuck does a great job putting both sides of the argument in a fair light, and detailing in a clinical scorekeeper fashion just how the controversy was resolved.

Shipnuck's interest is not ideology but people. He manages to get under the placards and in the face of just about everyone who took a stand on this issue, including, in exclusive interviews, the two main players. Hootie comes across as a prickly but likable character, neither as exclusionary nor as unthinking as his critics often claimed. Martha is a cagey, doughty crusader with periods of understandable exhaustion and a fine sense of humor. When someone brings her an anti-Martha T-shirt ["If Martha had balls...She could join the club"] she gets a real kick from reading it.

She needed that sense of humor, as her strong charge, seemingly on the verge of making a miracle and bringing women members to Augusta, caused instead another miracle, that of making Americans feel sorry for a coterie of rich white men. Overplaying her hand, claiming common cause with U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, and equating the Augusta National with the Ku Klux Klan all killed the momentum of her campaign, along with the savvy PR work of Augusta?s media consultant, Jim McCarthy.

Also damaging was the fickleness of the press, rallying behind her and then against her. Shipnuck's best work, an easy five-star essay on its own, details the various shifts in press coverage of the campaign, particularly at the New York Times, which tried to adopt Burk's campaign as their own only to have it instead contribute to the unhorsing of its own executive editor. Shipnuck's pen is sharp, whether the subject is TV commentators like Rich Eisen ["a one-time standup comic masquerading as a journalist." Ouch!], rabid bloggers, and even SI colleague Rick Reilly, who gets into a silly macho face-off with a one-man Imperial Wizard whose only white accoutrements are his prize poodles.

In the end, Shipnuck makes clear his belief that Augusta should admit women, that Johnson's refusal has denigrated the sport and forever equated him with the ardent segregationists who supported Jim Crow laws in the 1950s, but that the feminists lost their heads too quickly to make a clear case. The nice thing about "The Battle For Augusta National" is you don't have to share that view to enjoy the book. Shipnuck writes with clarity, humor, and a sense of fairness that really does credit to his profession. That puts him in the minority in the Augusta controversy.

He Knows of What He Speaks.......2004-04-24

The day after I finished this fine book I read in the newspaper that Martha Burk had won her 1st Amendment court case against the city of Augusta. The author had all but predicted this would happen, part of an insightful final chapter that basically carried the message,"This ain't over yet, folks." There is a tremendous amount of insight in "The Battle for Augusta National", and that's just one example among many. Most books in the Sports section are mindless hagiographies, but Shipnuck has written a book full of ideas - about the media, the meaning of private clubs, the culture of big business, the cronyism of Southern politics. There are plenty of other amusing digressions along the way. I will continue to scan the newspaper, awaiting new developments that I have already been told to expect.

Dinah!: Three Decades of Sex, Golf, and Rock 'N' Roll

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Dinah!: Three Decades of Sex, Golf, and Rock 'N' Roll
Michele Kort
Manufacturer: Out Traveler Books
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ASIN: 1555838243

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When Colgate-Palmolive and the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) decided to inaugurate a new golf tournament in 1972 under the name of TV star Dinah Shore, who expected all those lesbians to show up? Golf? Who said anything about golf? Within a decade, the tournament week became crowded with comedy concerts, pool parties and tea dances. Promoters reserve entire hotels for the huge flock of lesbians that migrate into town each year, and the dance parties are so large an airplane hangar is required for the 5,000 sunbaked gals. The Dinah Shore tournament is merely an excuse for the year's biggest pool party. This lavishly illustrated, oversize book celebrates all things Dinah, including:

A history of the tournament highlighting the main players-with gaydar ratings for each.
Interviews with club promoters, bartenders, and -partygoers on the evolution of the "Gay Dinah."
An exploration of responses to the phenomenon by the LPGA brass, the golfers, the Mission Hills Country Club, and the city of Palm Springs.
"Dinah Style"-a look at the changing couture, including how to get your polo shirt collar to stand up.
"The Dinah Guide," including how to get to Palm Springs and its vicinity, how to secure lodging and tickets, directions for getting around, and a tourist guide to the area.

Longtime journalist and freelance writer Michele Kort is the author most recently of Soul Picnic: The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro and the collaborating writer with Chastity Bono on The End of Innocence.

America's Linksland: A Century of Long Island Golf

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The American Home of Golf

America's Linksland: A Century of Long Island Golf
William Quirin , and L. C. Lambrecht
Manufacturer: Wiley
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ASIN: 1585360872

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An historical look at golf on Long Island in New York; the story of the people who made golf in Long Island one of the most prominent areas in the US; an architectural look at who designed some of the great courses, the demise of many during the Depression years and the resurrection of some courses in the area. Featured prominently as well are Shinnecock Hills, site of 2004 US Open and host to two previous Opens.

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The American Home of Golf.......2002-05-12

Long Island has some of the greatest golf courses in the world and Mr. Quirin as done a fabulous job of detailing many of these gems. The book is filled with breath-taking photography and excellent histories of the clubs and several of it's more famous members, along with historical matches played over these links the past 100 years. If you like golf course architecture, nature, and/or history...you will definitely enjoy this book. My dream has been to play many of these courses some summer, but I'm afraid that dream just became more expensive after reading this book!

Different Strokes: The Lives and Teachings of the Game's Wisest Women

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Different Strokes: The Lives & Teachings of the Game's Wisest Women
A unique gallery
Inspirational reading for all golfers
Top Book on Women's Golf
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Different Strokes: The Lives and Teachings of the Game's Wisest Women
Mona Vold
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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ASIN: 0684848635

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Given golf's sad tradition of relegating women to secondary status in the grill room and non-prime times off the tees, it's not surprising--though hardly defensible--that the wisdom of the game's best women teachers has largely been pushed into the rough as well. And this isn't just a loss for women golfers--it's every golfer's loss. Mona Vold, on her way to becoming a teaching pro herself, seeks to remedy this slight in Different Strokes. In the mold of Harvey Penick's inviting collections, this is a wonderful accumulation of tips, insights, and anecdotes from some of golf's best female instructors. Their names--Gloria Armstrong, Peggy Kirk Bell, Kathy Whitworth, Debbie Massey, and Betty Jameson--might not all sound familiar, but their knowledge and their ability to pass it on are breathtakingly real. This is much more than an instructional, though. Different Strokes is a plaintive and powerful journey--a journey made quite personal through Vold's own quest to meet and learn from these matriarchal masters--into one of the overlooked chambers of golf's heart. "I set out east, west, south and am greeted repeatedly with generosity and kindness," Wisconsinite Vold reports. "'You learn so much by being asked a question,' the great amateur and now 79-year-old pro Betty Jameson tells me. 'Everyone needs a listener--something more than a seashell. We aren't just Proettes. Our days, our swings, our games, our minds are full. We have things to tell....'" And there isn't a golfer alive who won't get something out of listening to them. --Jeff Silverman

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"As everyone knows, all good golf swings are alike in that the club must make certain motions as it passes through a short space. The angle and speed of the clubface at the moment it strikes the ball are the test all swings must take. The golf club doesn't care if it is being swung by a woman or a man."

-- HARVEY PENICK

For as long as golf has been played, it has been played in roughly equal measure by men and women. Yet in America, when we tell the history of golf over the last century, we tell the tales of great men who have made golf a sport rife with legends. But for every Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, or Jack Nicklaus that has come along to inspire us with his accomplishments, there has also been a Betty Jameson, Wiffi Smith, Polly Riley, or Kathy Whitworth to amaze us and help us understand all that is great in the game of golf.

Until now, however, the stories of those women who have contributed to the aura of the sport with their words, wit, and wisdom have largely gone untold. But in Different Strokes, Mona Vold -- for the first time -- takes the reader on an unparalleled journey to the very soul of golf and reveals to us the remarkable lives and teachings of the game's wisest women. By giving voice to the women who have helped shape golf in the twentieth century, Mona Vold has given voice to every woman who has played the game -- from the weekend amateur to the pro on the LPGA Tour.

Much like the mystical golf master Shivas Irons in Michael Murphy's classic Golf in the Kingdom, the women in these pages offer up golf as an overarching metaphor for life. It is through a master's appreciation for the game and all of its magic that women of all ages come to understand the subtle beauty of the game with all its risks and rewards, frustrations and joys.

Through stories from and about these remarkable women, Mona Vold gathers the collective wisdom of a lost generation -- women whose swings were every bit as technically perfect as those of Byron Nelson or Sam Snead, whose battles to overcome injury were every bit as heroic as those of Ben Hogan, and whose achievements were every bit as impressive as those of Bobby Jones, Jack Nicklaus, and the other heroes of the men's game.

Complete with delightful portraits, sound technical advice, and inspiring nuggets of wisdom, and written in a beautiful, inimitable style, Different Strokes does for women's golf what Harvey Penick's Little Red Book did for golfers of every generation.

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Different Strokes: The Lives & Teachings of the Game's Wisest Women.......2007-09-26

Two books are tops for those who love the game and choose to continue learning how to play it well: this one and Every Shot Must Have a Purpose: How GOLF54 Can Make You a Better Player The stories, experiences, tips, and memories are superbly inspiring. Worth re-reading every year!

A unique gallery.......2001-04-03

"If a person has any greatness in them, it comes to light , not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of their daily work." Beryl Markham "West with the Night"

The women Mona Vold writes about in her book, "Different Strokes", are national treasures worthy of any reader's time. And although the common thread of their journeys is the world of golf, the passion of their hearts, the clarity of their minds and the strength of their voices both dig deeply into and transcend that rich and humbling game.

Without reservation, I highly recommend this wise and thoughtful book.

Inspirational reading for all golfers.......2001-02-17

Fun to hear what the other half has to say about the game. Great stories a good read for any golfer. Not to sure about the technical information. You might want to purchase GOLF IS A WOMAN'S GAME to set you straight on that. Both books really elevate women's golf.

Top Book on Women's Golf.......1999-10-27

This book has it all....contemporary history of women who love the game and made the LPGA what it is today, nostalgia, technique and lots of food for thought. Any woman who has a passion for golf must read this one. I seldom read a book more than once...I'm on my third time through in less than three months. Do yourself a favor by buying it and keeping it near your nightstand to refer to again and again.

Loved this book!.......1999-09-09

I don't play golf but I LOVED Ms. Vold's book, read every word, hated to have it end! I would recommend this book to anyone whether they play golf or not.

The LPGA: The Unauthorized Version : The History of the Ladies Professional Golf Association

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Very delightful and interesting
Must read for anyone interested in women in golf
A First-Rate Book

The LPGA: The Unauthorized Version : The History of the Ladies Professional Golf Association
Liz Kahn
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Very delightful and interesting.......1998-03-24

I saw it at a friend's house and also had a hard time finding it. Thank you Amazon.com. Well worth reading and enjoying. Good book for the golfer and their library.

Must read for anyone interested in women in golf.......1998-02-16

I don't understand why this book is so hard to find. I read about it somewhere and tried several major bookstores and they didn't even have it in their computer. I was starting to think there was something wrong with it. Instead I found it at Amazon and found it to be a really good book. It covered so many different aspects of golf and the players and really told all sides of a number of issures. It seemed fair and unbiased and the author was willing to state what she objectively observed and that which she just felt. I would like to know how the players feel about it and whether they think it was accurate - or did any of them read it?

A First-Rate Book.......1996-12-17

The author of this book spent more than 15 years compiling this book, doing interviews with players who were successful and not so successful on the LPGA from the 1940's through the 1990's. I've followed women's pro golf since the mid-seventies and have been curious about those women's lives. If you're a hardcore fan of the LPGA, you have to buy this book. If you are interested in the life of the career woman athlete, you should read this book. Some of the women are very articulate and honest about their lives and what it cost them to pursue a life in women's professional golf

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The Illustrated History of Women's Golf
Rhonda Glenn
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The African American Woman Golfer: Her Legacy

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The African American Woman Golfer: Her Legacy
M. Mikell Johnson
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ASIN: 0313349045

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The African American Golfer: Her Legacy gives a brief historical overview of African American women in golf and examines the sport to uncover all African American women who have been involved in golf over the past 75 years. M. Mikell Johnson shows how these women-who were seemingly far removed from the white, male, privileged world of the country club-broke both color and gender barriers to become golfers. This book traces the history of how African American women got involved in golf. Title VI and Title IX alleviated some of the racial and financial burdens for some young women in high school and college athletics, allowing them to participate in all sports regardless of race, creed, or gender. Women's clubs also provided a stable foundation for female athletes in male-dominated sports. The misinformation, social apathy, financial encumbrances, and, finally, the role of the media in both promoting and preventing black women's opportunities in golf are discussed. The African American Woman Golfer identifies over 300 women and their lives in golf. The author also profiles prominent golfers such as Althea Gibson, who crossed the LPGA color line; Helen Webb Harris, who created the first club for black women golfers; and Ann Gregory, who broke the USGA "whites only" clause in women's golf.

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Golf for Women (Legacy Golf Series)
Genevieve Hecker
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