Three Facts about Women’s Golf

Carene Kunkler is a marketing expert with over two decades of experience. She has an MBA in marketing from Michigan State University, where she was the marketing club’s president. The chairwoman of her church’s finance committee, Carene Kunkler enjoys doing yoga, skiing, and watching women’s professional golf in her free time.

Although more and more women are beginning to participate in golf, it is still a predominantly male sport. In America, only 25 percent of golfers are women, causing women’s professional golf to be significantly less popular than men’s. Here are three facts about women’s golf:

1. Queen Mary I of Scotland (1542-1567) is regarded as the first woman to play golf. Having learned the game in France, she was sent from a very young age and brought it back to Scotland later in life. The first golf course in Scotland, St. Andrews Links, was commissioned by her. She is also credited with coining the term ‘caddie’ from the French word ‘cadet’ she called her assistants. In golf, a caddie carries the player’s bag and gives support.
2. Minigolf was initially designed for women. It is a smaller offshoot of golf that focuses on just the putting aspect of the game. Because it was considered inappropriate for women to swing the club past their shoulders, a miniature version of the game was designed by the Ladies’ Putting Club of St. Andrews in 1867. Today it is played by both women and men all over the world.
3. The first woman to challenge a man in a professional tournament was the American golfer Babe Zaharias. Regarded as one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century, she helped to found the Ladies Professional Golf Association in 1958.

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