Playing with the Ladies

........ we've just built a new course ........ it's par 60 with 4-4's and 1-5 ........ fun but a 2hr. venture as it's long ...... in trying to make it a fair test for all players we have pro, advanced and ladie's and novice tees. In doing so we have found that with the red tees the ladies can score just about on a par with the advanced men. The shortened tees are a good equalizer. It allows the advanced women the ability to compete head to head with the advanced men. Do you think this is good? Do you women want this or would you rather just play with women?

[Boom Boom Dino]

as there is a serious lack of women playing the game and because it is such a fabulous game i think it's incumbent upon designers to figure out what it's going to take to get women in and expanding the game to them.
......... from what i see here in canada women are just as competitve as us men and love the game aspect, so what do we have to do to make courses easier for women to succeed on and coming back to play.

[ConniJo]

I love it all-playing with women is fantastic as we exchange all kinds of hints, tips, and discs. But most DG men are very cool also, and to not play with them is cutting off half the population (and 90% of DGers) from our playing pool. Men's tournament attitudes run the gamut, from 'we love the ladies and give them all payout' (my favorite, since there aren't usually a lot of us) to 'let's make the course longer and harder and the payout won't even get them a disc' (I still love those guys, they're just ignorant).