Thursday, June 27, 2002
Golf courses offer deal for daughters
By Carey Hoffman
Enquirer contributor
You did “Take Your Daughter To Work Day” earlier this spring. Now, if you really want her to succeed in business, make sure you follow up with “Take Your Daughter To The Course” week.
This promotion is set for July8-14 and is coordinated by the National Golf Course Owners Association, in cooperation with the LPGA and the Executive Women's Golf Association. Events at hundreds of courses across the country will include promotions such as discounted golf, player clinics, fashion shows and tournaments.
The Hamilton County Park District courses will participate. From July 8-12 after 6p.m. at Little Miami Golf Course, daughters can play for free when accompanied by a parent or grandparent paying the junior rate.
The same deal will be available after 5 p.m. July13-14 at the park district's other six courses — Meadow Links, Miami Whitewater, the Mill Course, Sharon Woods, Shawnee Lookout and the Vineyard.
A full listing of participating courses is available from a special NGCOA Web site: www.getlinkedplaygolf.com
Getting more women to play golf is a goal for a number of organizations in the game.
While overall golf participation has increased 34 percent since 1986, the number of women golf ers increased only 11 percent, according to the National Golf Foundation. Retention is a key reason — the dropout rate among female golfers is around 55 percent.
Those studying the problem say there is a wide range of issues affecting why women don't stick with the game. Heading the list, though, is the feeling they are intruding on a male bastion.
“There's no doubt that feeling still exists,” said Doug Stultz, the Hamilton County Park District's director of golf. “We're trying to address that through education, making sure (women) feel comfortable on the course and making sure they understand etiquette, and by taking our lesson and clinic programs one more step right out onto the golf courses.”
Adult women are more prone to feeling this way than juniors. One key to overcoming this is making sure women find other women they feel comfortable playing golf with.
“We take a two-pronged approach to what we're doing,” says Katherine Disney, the president of the Greater Cincinnati chapter of EWGA. “We're interested in networking, and we're also interested in learning about better golf. That's not just instruction but things like golf etiquette, so that you can go out (among male golfers) and not look like a fool.”
EWGA was founded in 1992 to help address the issue of women being left out of one of the most important of all business settings — the golf course. The local chapter has about 200 members playing in 12 leagues set up around the area.
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