Golfweek for Her

Today Golfweek announced there new micro site for woman call Golfweek for Her.

http://www.golfweek.com/news/golfweek-for-her/

Which I applaud, but at the same time I found myself a little confused, dazed and to a certain degree upset.

So I have played golf for over 35 years now, have followed professional golf for almost that entire time period. During this time period the one thing I never thought of was "Golf for Him" and "Golf for Her" but just "Golf". Having played organized sports, I had always been exposed to the concept of the boys and girls teams, we have seen the controversy surrounding woman playing on the men's tour, but at the social and under the elite amateur golf level, golf has always just been golf to me. Never a his or her game.

I grew up playing on a local town run golf course, where "kids" played after school and all summer by showing up and getting paired with what ever group had room. This sometimes meant I played golf with senior men, working men taking a day off, senior woman, working woman taking the day off, or the mom taking some time with her friends (sorry I don't remember playing with any "Mr. Moms" but I would gladly have done so). Each of these groups accepted me and the rest of us junior golfers with open invitations and full acceptance.

As I grew up and moved to being a member of a private club, playing with the same types of continued. Never once moving to a mentality of his versus her. At certain points members of my regular foursome were woman, some better than I.

Today as I sit here writing this I commend Golfweek for creating this woman's versions of their site, but I also sit here amazed that in over 45 years of life, I find offense with the very game I love the most, and amazement with myself for missing that it was occurring (okay I'm leaving out that I do know about Augusta National).

In 2011, that golf and society still cannot meld together His Golf with Her Golf without separation is wrong and disturbing. For anyone that doesn't agree, I just ask one thing, next time your at your course play "co-ed" golf, if you don't agree after that so be it, but don't ask to join my foursome.