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Do
you, like me, work hard and love the game
of golf?
Please email me with your views and articles.
I look forward to hearing from you.
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May
I introduce myself:
I am Christine Williams, play off a handicap of 13 and have been
a member of Tewkesbury Park Golf and Country Club in Gloucestershire
for the past 17 years.
I
first learnt to play golf on the Par 3 course at Tewkesbury Park.
My past sports have been Badminton, Tennis and Squash but several
years ago I decided that rushing around a hot and sweaty squash
court does not appeal so much as getting out into the fresh air
and enjoying a good, brisk walk. Albeit sometimes spoilt by my golfing
ability!
My other hobbies are gardening and now website design which I began
by attending an evening course in Website Design and Construction
at Gloucestershire College.
(Photo by Malcolm McDougall www.malcolmmcdougall.co.uk)
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I
own another website www.ladygolfer.uk
com which supplies modern, good quality and well designed
golf clothes for lady golfers. I intend to concentrate and expand
this website in future years as more and more women golfers are
buying their golfing outfits online.
Happy
Golfing!
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| Fashion
Shows |
Would
you like to hold a Fashion Show at your Golf Club or other venue?
I can organise a show of ladies golfing wear of
clothes that are available now or a preview of next season's golf
wear. This is a fun way to have a look at the latest
designs and a good excuse for a ladies' get together. The
clothes can also include casual clothes which could be worn after
a round of golf or on other occasions.
For further details click
here to drop me an email.
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you wish to advertise on this website? |
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If
you would like to advertise your product whether it is a holiday
home you wish to let out, a commodity you need to sell or any other
item which can be linked to ladies golf I would like to hear from
you.
Please email me
to learn more about details.
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| Does
your golf bag slip round in your trolley? |
I
have received the following plea via email and wonder if you have
a similar problem with a "slipping" golf bag. However,
I use the Power Bug electric trolley with coordinating bag
and it sits perfectly on the trolley. I thoroughly recommend the Power
Bug to you, as sold on www.ladygolfer.uk.com.
..........Do you know of ANY pull-trolley that does not let your
bag slip around. I know this is a small thing, but most of the ladies
I know are infuriated by it. We want to push not have electric trolleys
(burns more calories lol) but we have yet to find a trolley that fits
the bill.
Can you help
Kind regards
Helen Tofts
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| I
have received the following about the problem of working ladies and
weekend golf. What are your views? I
would love to hear from you. Please email
me with your experiences - good or bad. |
I
have been playing for 3 years and am totally addicted to the game,
but having a very busy full time job seems to make me some sort of
alien as far as my Golf club is concerned.
All competitive golf is geared towards women who have every Wednesday
free and who for the rest of the week have little better to do than
visit the Club to ensure that they are fully conversant with the notice
board and understand all nuances of the rules (which may be interpreted
in different ways at the whim of the Committee)
Am I alone or are there others out there like me whose work commitments
mean that golf time is only available at very long....or very short
notice.
I have suggested that my Club use email as a means to keep people
up to date, and look at using a closed website to manage competition
entries but again, I seem completely out of step, they are simply
not on the same wavelength....
Am I alone or is this the experience of other working golfers? I would
be interested to hear of any good experiences out there and Golf Clubs
who actually recognise that we are living in the 21st century....
Di
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| EU
Challenge to Golf Club Sexism (extract from the website
of BBC.co.uk/news - Jan 2006) |
Golf
clubs which ban women from the bar or restrict times when they can
play will be violating EU law from 2007 onwards, the European Commission
says.
The statement came in reply to Irish MEP Proinsias De Rossa, who asked
if such practices would be outlawed by a new sex discrimination directive
which bans discrimination in the provision of goods and services. Mr
De Rossa tabled his question in the wake of a 2003 petition to the
European Parliament by a UK woman, Clare Oliver. She complained that
many British golf clubs did not treat men and women equally when it
came to playing in tournaments or standing for election to club committees.
The news was welcomed by the English Ladies Golf Assocation.
"We think it's time women had equal opportunities and we support
the moves by the EU," said spokeswoman Clare Tyler. She said
restrictions on the times women could play, and access to the bar,
were the most common forms of discrimination - and that they particularly
irritated the new, younger generation of women golfers.
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| Are
there any Ladies Committee Secretaries out there that can give some
advice and guidance to Jackie? (Read her email below). |
I
have recently been voted on as Ladies Secretary and being new to the
game - 2 years - I am at a loss as to what my duties should involve.
Can I ask someone who has held this position if they can give me some
tips or perhaps help me source a publication that would help.
I was interested to note the comments regarding ladies who cannot
enter competitions which are held during the week. I was unable to
play in these competitions until I retired. Unless more is done to
accommodate ladies in this position I cannot see the ladies game being
able to grow. In our club ladies are not allowed to play until after
4 p.m. on a Saturday as the gents have a Saturday Medal every week.
Having spoken to a few of the gents, their comments are there are
not enough ladies to warrant giving them time on a Saturday but without
this we will never be able to increase our numbers.
Hope someone can be of some help to me.
Thanks
Jackie
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I
would like to add my comments regarding tees as we are experiencing
a bit of a tussle at Tewkesbury Park ourselves with the allocation
of times to play our competitions on a Sunday.
Unfortunately we have to share our course with guests as it is owned
by a Hotel. Our numbers are dwindling a bit and the Hotel has taken
back some Members' tee times for their hotel guests. We have to
get our tee times from the allocated members' times (all we ask
for is 2 tees next to one another on a Sunday to play our "alternate
day" competitions) but the men are grumbling and saying that
we want prime times only. Not true! They are offering us, on a rota
system, 2 tees on a Sunday between 7 - 8 am, 2 tees at 12 noon on
the following Sunday and 2 tees late in the afternoon on the following
week and so on. We are now in the middle of "negotiation"
and the fur is flying!
Christine
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| I
received the following email from one of my
subscribers with a plea for any advice from other lady golfers who
are or have been in a similar predicament - let me know and I will
pass it on. |
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I
have recently had an hysterectomy. I'd be grateful for
any useful tips from lady golfers who have had the same sort of
operation. How easy or difficult was it for them
to get back into the swing, etc?
Kate
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See
below the response to Kate from Steve Poole, who is a Golf Conditioning
and Injury Specialist:
It is very important to follow the advice of your doctor. Kate
should not exercise for 4 - 6 weeks. The reason is that it takes
4-6 weeks for the soft tissue to repair after a surgery. In
the process of soft tissue repair, scar tissue is layed down in
a half hazzard fashion in the first 2-3 weeks. This scar tissue
is realigned during the 4-6 week period and is not until then that
you can start to stress this tissue. If you do prior to that, you
may chance tearing away tissue at the orgin of your incision.
Then it is a progressive exercise program to strengthen all the
muscles which have deteriorated post operation.
It is important for Kate to strengthen core muscles before playing
golf to prevent injury.
If you would like some more in depth information visit the Conditioning
page of this website and then drop me a line.
Steve
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| I
received the following email from Judith in response to Mandy's email
(see below). Any more views on this important subject? |
I
do agree with Mandy that more competitons for ladies should be held
at the weekend. In the Gloucestershire area there are one or two Ladies
Open competitions that are at the weekend, which is a welcome move.
I also agree that matches should be shared out between the weekends
and weekdays. There is of course a problem with five day members having
to pay more at the weekends to play, but maybe if they are representing
the club in a match, an exception could be made, just a suggestion!!
We try to help business ladies at The Bristol Golf Club at Cribbs
Causeway, Bristol by having as many as
we can of our friendly matches in the afternoon, so that ladies can
then only use half a day's annual leave or save up their flexitime.
Judith
(Competitions Secretary)
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| What
do
you think about the changes which are affecting the ladies' game,
from the Handicapping system to the realisation that more women than
ever before work full time and if ladies golf is to go forward, attitudes
must change. I would like to hear from you. |
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I
received the following email from Mandy which I think working lady
golfers will find of interest:
"I
am a firm believer that women's golf will never progress whilst
the majority of clubs insist on holding events during the week.
In Sussex we have County division matches that are always during
the week and like you I have to take time off from work if I am
able to play.
Whilst I am very fortunate in that the club I belong to was formed
less than 10 years ago and all our major club competitions are at
weekends we are the exception to the norm. It doesn't stop there
being an 'us & them' syndrome still. More informal competitions
still get arranged for the "Tuesday Ladies" than us weekenders.
We still get the moans from the 5 day lady members that they have
to pay a green fee if they want to play in the majors despite them
paying greatly reduced subs for 5 days a week compared to our 2
day weekend membership (for that really what 7 day membership boils
down to).
A lot of our new lady members do work, some only part time, but
I think if more competitions & matches were moved to the weekends
then these working ladies would be willing to help out with committee
positions as they could be there when needed.
God forbid that then men (not Seniors) were asked to play inter-club
matches on a Wednesday. Perhaps the ladies section need to split
like the Men into Workers & Seniors
Surely, if we want to encourage young girls/ladies into this sport
then we need to stop running ladies sections like the dark ages
and show them that it is a modern forwarding thinking game and not
for old fuddy duddies !
Keep up the good work
Love your website
Mandy
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| I
have received another email from Mandy with a suggestion about playing
knockouts in 2 sections - what do you think? |
The
other problem our club encountered was knock out competitions - weekday
ladies not willing to play at weekends, working ladies not able to
play during the week.
We do now play some of our knockouts (the winter ones only I believe)
in 2 sections - weekday & weekend with a play off between the
2 sections to decide the winners. This does work quite
well.
Strangely enough this year there were more entries in the weekend
section than the weekday!
At least in the summer with long evenings it can be possible to play
after work, but not always ideal. Perhaps the idea of double summer
time would help - what do other ladies think ?
Mandy
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I
have received an interesting email from Gaynor and wonder if you
have a similar dilemma at your own Golf Club when trying to select
committee members. Please email me with any suggestions
or solutions and I will pass them on to Gaynor.
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"I am a member of Dartmouth Golf and Country Club. We only
have a small membership and as time goes by, more of the lady members
are working ladies. This causes us considerable difficulties over
selecting Captains, Vice- Captains, Committee members. I would be
interested to hear from any other clubs who have a similar problem
and how they manage to keep the day to day activities running –
eg County Competitions (Sheelah Creesy, Scratch League etc), Friendlies
and much much more.
Gaynor.
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