Is golf a popular sport for women in South Africa?

Question

So popular that there is a magazine dedicated to them - SA Woman Golfer ?

Answer 1

A lot of women have started playing golf with their husbands or with their friends. Might be a way to spend more time together. I personally can't stand the sport. I'm not walking after a ball for the better part of a morning I could have used to relax. Rather give me mini-golf.

Answer 2

It has been for several years. When I was selling golf tours there, S.A. women were busy making quite a nice name for themselves. In 2006 at Stellenbosch for example,  South African women golfers won the  World Amateur Title. No small feat that wasn't. I do believe that magazine is a new quarterly.

South Africa has some of the most fantastic golf courses I have ever had the pleasure of walking --- or selling.

Answer 3

Well I know a few female golfers, but still I think it is mostly a male dominated sport. I play golf once every blue moon, not very good I must say, I think men just "swing" better than women.

Answer 4

Lol Cakes I don't know,but I know my sister hates Golf,cause her hubby spends most of his time there.xxxx

Answer 5

Women has only recently started to take golf serous in South-Africa. I can remember when I was 12/13 if I saw one woman an the course it was strange. Now thou I would say woman makes 30+% of the golfers on coarse. In the states and Europe it has been taken serous a lot longer.

I think what "sparked" womens golf recantly was when Annika Sorenstam played in the mens PGA  tour event in 2003. I think this made women relise that they can co just as good as men. I know a woman that made her husband quit golf because she out played him time and time again.