Golf swings both ways

Bizsport

 Should it be pure sport with a lot of skill generating success (Pete Sampras) or glamour mixed with success (Gabriela Sabatini or Katrina Krabbe) or just glamour without any need for success (Anna Kournikova)?

 It is this search for the ideal blend that probably led one promoter after another to go in for the idea of unisex golf.

 It all started rather innocently, when Suzy Whaley, a 36-year-old club pro, qualified to play at the Greater Hartford Open, an event on the PGA Tour by winning a PGA club pro tournament in Connecticut late last year.

 Whaley, who played briefly on the LPGA, but now is teaching golf full-time, played from the forward (Ladies) tees while the gentlemen played from the black ones way behind.

 The reward for winning was a qualification for the Greater Hartford Open.

 Sizing up the opportunity immediately, Bank of America Colonial, an event on the US PGA Tour, gave the world