“In those moments, the unprompted voice-cracking over a FaceTime call while explaining a final round 75… the dejected pressing of refresh for three hours to see just how close to 60th place you can wind up… they don’t matter anymore.”
Actually kind of love the fact Solheim is going up against tour champs this weekend. Makes it more apparent how many things women’s golf has going for it. Including being better suited to good golf courses = more engaging for fans, imo. Give it a chance to shine and shine it will
Don’t really want to spoil my mental peace by dealing with this, but I feel like it’s worth saying... because the gender equality ‘debate’ too often fails to acknowledge our reality.
(And I know there are far more important things in the world right now)
Gutted 🥈
Golf... it’ll get you.
But there’s some pride in there too.. of myself, of women’s golf, of golf as a whole. Of everyone who made this happen.
Thank you to all those who have supported me this week.. it’s overwhelming and means the world.
🏌🏻♀️🏌🏻♂️
This is exactly why events like this matter.
Had begun to think it was just too hard to make the men/women balance work.
But this.. getting to show this skill level to the golf world, who wouldn’t have seen it otherwise. Linn Grant deserves that. The womens game deserves that👏🏼
*not looking for sympathy or a debate about feeder tours, just thought interesting to share-
Without sponsorship or other income, my total profit/loss for 2021 would have been a loss of £23k ($31k).
18th on money list, VERY unselfish coaches and next to no caddie all year
How good is it watching so much
@EuropeanTour
golf on UK golf courses at this time of year?? Got so much to offer... would love for us to have more tournaments here. So good 🙌🏼
So much pretence with LIV about how golf ‘needs’ new formats and innovation.
This happens to be a week where that is legitimately happening on
@DPWorldTour
and
@LETgolf
with the Scandinavian Mixed, putting men and women on equal footing.
Maybe tune in to the better side of golf
Eating a pot noodle in the bath of my third different hotel room in three nights after a 16 hour day slowly pissing away a ridiculously good chance to get into the us open, before a 3.30am alarm to catch 2 flights to Kansas for this weeks event. 🤯
But wouldn’t change this life💫
Don’t know yet what 2022 will bring but just want to say thank you to everyone who has reached out, through the good and the bad.
Q series crushed me completely, that’s impossible to hide from. But proud of doing what I needed to this week.
I’ll have more at some point 🤍
“You had it in your hands - after a year of sacrifice and improvement and doubt and trust and loneliness and pride - and in a 45 minute window so quick I’m still not sure it happened and so slow I still feel like I’m living it - you give it back.”
Leona 🔥🔥🔥
Anyone who knows this girl knows how inevitable this has been. The world has somehow been sleeping on her… but this is only the start 🤙🏼🇮🇪
@leona_maguire
May retract this statement in the near future but I love golf so much sometimes. It’s all consuming.
Playing it, watching it, thinking about it. How lucky are we to have found this sport 🤩
There are THREE matches on the course in one of the greatest, most dramatic, most enthralling, most unpredictable team events there has ever been….
And we’re not getting to see every shot.
If you ever doubted that women’s golf deserves better 🤢🤐
Say it louder 🔊
Exclusive: Justin Rose and wife Kate to sponsor women’s golf tournaments for British pros this summer
The Justin Rose Ladies Series will feature seven events, starting on June 18, with Rose contributing £35,000 as prize money |
@KateLouiseRowan
I Couldn't Name You
"A woman who showed that it is possible to smash ceilings that others with a certain mindset will put in your way. Se Ri Pak is responsible for far more major champions than Hank Haney ever will be."
Whatever happens from here on with Tiger, 🙏🏼🙏🏼 he came out of that crash alive. First and foremost for his family. But also for the whole golf world. It’s hard to wrap your head around the impact he’s had on pretty much every living golfer out there, professional or otherwise. 🤍
“Time after time, through complete silence, we’re told that our abilities and achievements as golfers don’t matter to the average golf fan. That they are less important, because they weren’t achieved by a man”
There’s more than golf, but think it’s important right now to show some appreciation to the people who have been running and operating our golf clubs, having to make impossible decisions for their members and staff based on rules that keep changing
#thankyou
Again.. I think the thing that pisses off a lot of the rest of us is his apparent lack of appreciation for what the PGA tour has done for his career.
Yes players hit the shots, but it’s not them singularly that “create moments”. There’s a whole infrastructure that’s done that.
Phil uncensored! In an exclusive excerpt from
@AlanShipnuck
's juicy new biography, Mickelson lays bare his real feelings about the Saudi Golf League ("they're scary motherfuckers") and sheds new light on his grievances with the PGA Tour ("a dictatorship").
This one feels so so so good 😍🏆
A lot of people to thank - all those who have supported me, believed in me, and given me opportunities.. I’ll be forever grateful.
It’s been dark at times. But the journey is always worth it. I love this game, and its people. Thank you🤍
T-2nd in Italy… never fun to lose in a playoff but proud of the round to get there at all, including a back nine 31 🤙🏼🎯 really enjoyable week
@LadiesItaOpen
@LETgolf
🥈🇮🇹
@DavidMGolf
Little bit heartbroken to lose in my second playoff this year
@LETgolf
.
65 67 67… not quite enough, but it was a special French Open 🇫🇷
There’s different types of lows in this game, but I’ll take this one over the past few weeks. Thanks for the support 🖤🥈
The PGA Tour is doing its best to create a great field at the Genesis Scottish Open.
Any Tour member who plays will receive a $7,500 stipend to cover travel costs.
Field will consist of:
75 PGA Tour members
75 DP World Tour members
3 Korean PGA members
3 Sponsor's exemptions
The Art of Thought
"Some people might get drawn in initially for the brawn, the dominance, the testosterone fuelled exhilaration that comes from launching a drive into the stratosphere... But that’s not what makes people stay."
Imagine having a 5 shot lead going into the final round of a major, then being 3 under through 9, and somehow being in a worse position than when you started 🤯🤯🤯
#theygood
that european tour playoff was worth €1.5 million...
yet the second place cheque was still more than if you’d won EVERY (excl. majors) event on the ladies european tour this year so far... combined
#stillhere
There are many ways to drop shots round
@RoyalTroonGC
in a 4 club wind but hitting a shank when you’re eyeing up birdie and taking 8 isn’t ideal 🤗 So tough out there but it isn’t impossible... still love it all. What a golf course
I keep reading this comment from Bryson hoping it will get less awful 🤢creating a brand that doesn’t match who you are is possibly my least favourite thing about a lot of professional athletes using social media
Spoke to Bryson. He took issue with cameraman following him especially closely after he splashed sand in anger near 7 green.
"I think we need to start protecting our players out here compared to showing a potential vulnerability and hurting someone's image."
Every professional golfer (and person involved in golf) should listen to every single thing that Martin Kaymer says 🔑 the most honest perspective going
@EuropeanTour
@meg_maclaren
Your not serious....Do you realize how many will watch the Tour Championship instead of the Solheim Cup... probably 9 outa 10 people....Fans? what fans..Is there even 5K in attendance at Inverness? Sorry ..there is no comparison here...The TV ratings & event attendance prove it..
Can’t quite believe a year on
@road2lpga
is done. Didn’t quite get what I wanted as an end goal, but there have been so many positives it’s hard not to be proud.
Beyond grateful for the ones closest to me who have been there for every step, good and bad 🤍
2021 isn’t done yet🌪
“I am indebted to the women who came before, as we all are.
The women who drove us hundreds of miles around the country before we could do it ourselves. Who booked hotels and knew entry deadlines and remembered handicap certificates...”
You’re pretty sometimes America… but jumped on a plane home and couldn’t be happier 🌼
@EpsonTour
thanks for all the lessons over the last year and a bit. But
@LETgolf
is calling my name and I’m listening 🇪🇺🤍
#trustyourinstincts
#2022
Well.. first cheque for a while! Still shaking the rust off but brilliant to have a place to do that. Can’t say enough good things about
@BrokenhurstGC
@GOLFPRINCIPLES
@lizyounggolf
for what they’ve put together. Unbelievable and a privilege to be a part of
@RoseLadiesGolf
👏🏼👏🏼
44 consecutive holes without a dropped shot but not enough stableford points 🙃 excited for the good things happening! Thanks to the
@asiantourgolf
@trustgolf
@LETgolf
for a fun two weeks alongside the men.. next up 🇦🇺🤩
"A birdie on the last to make the cut is still a birdie on the last to make the cut. The golf course doesn’t know what gender you are.
So go ahead and tell me women’s sport will never be able to compete with men’s sport..."
99% of professional golfers (I think) watching/reading some of the guys give their reasons for how unfair of a place their multi million dollar careers are in
You know what.... everything I and others who push for equality do and say and want, is about one thing. It’s not the money. Equal prize money is a fantasy, as much as I don’t see why we shouldn’t aim for that. But it’s not the money. It’s about respect.
Gave everything for 2 weeks. Sometimes shit happens that you have to try and deal with, whether you know how to or not.
But if golf has taught me anything, it’s that not getting what you want can be exactly what you need.
Thanks to the ones that keep supporting ❣️
#moretocome
@KylePorterCBS
Do you think it can actually help someone like Rory to be at his best in a way though? Not saying it’s easy but I think he thrives on putting his character into or alongside his golf. Like he’s playing for more than himself, or money, and it sharpens him. Idk if that makes sense
Feel a little sick right now, but also proud... did so many good things this week. Enough to know where I’m capable of being 📈 Thanks for the messages
#growthroughwhatyougothrough
Gutted not to get it done today. Not winning when you put yourself in position to is one of the most hollow feelings in golf.
But honestly, where my mind was on Monday this week.. I’m incredibly proud of getting myself into this position at all.
Big thanks for all the ❤️
#next
Absolutely loved
@RoyalStGeorges1
today... unreal track and privilege to be part of the first women’s professional event held there! Huge thanks to
@RoseLadiesGolf
and
@excelsm
for making it happen 👏🏼😍 (but I would like to play my last 3 holes again if that’s ok thanks)
Slightly bittersweet watching great golf starting up again this week knowing my fellow LET pros will be waiting another 3-4 months to start our season and get earning some 💰💰💰
"People pay... to watch skill and theatre, athleticism and passion, imagination and patience, weaving through the unpredictable predictability of the rise and fall of each character; each actor; each golfer. Each woman, each man."
“I wanted to ask every male player I bumped into what they thought about the merger news… but I left Sweden far more captivated by why the men have better short games than we do than whether Richard Bland will be able to play on career money in 2024.”
Some tough breaks today on the course but this made my day... classy touch from
@NorthHantsGC
@RoseLadiesGolf
❣️🌹 every week people have gone above and beyond for us and I know it’s appreciated by every single one of us players!
Could happily play
@TheBerkshireGC
all day every day 😍 nice to move up the leaderboard with some good stuff today... looking forward to signing off an incredible run of events on the
@RoseLadiesGolf
at Wentworth tomorrow
#itsbeenreal
nothing to do with pay or equality but being a woman is hard work sometimes... love to see Bryson or Brooks or JT deal with crying in bed for 4 hours before an afternoon tee time because of period pains 😂🌚
#realtalk
Murray should be an absolute icon for every young athlete of this generation, from any sport. Grit and determination squeezing more out of his skill than anyone I’ve ever seen. Unreal 🎾
“Letting all those stories wash over my own reluctantly-building reflections of a 3 day tournament which included 15 birdies but a T-26th finish drew me to this conclusion: golf is about proving things to yourself.”
In case anyone needs an example of why the upcoming event in Jordan, featuring men and women playing for the same trophy and prize, is needed to help change perceptions.... these are some of the comments on the
@BBCSport
article about the event.
#becrazyenoughtochangetheworld
Probably too long for anyone to read who doesn't already care... but I want people to understand.
Why We Matter - An Open Letter
"The LET taught me that it was ok to be myself. That being myself could mean something."
That list of golf courses 🤯😛🤩 doesn’t get much better!! This whole thing still feels slightly surreal.
To everyone involved.... thank you x1000000 for backing us 🙏🏼
Women’s golf will be grateful forever
#wehere
As promised, the 2021 Rose Ladies Series schedule! A massive thank you to these 11 incredible host venues that have the same vision as Kate and Justin Rose to grow the women's game.
#RoseLadiesSeries
@kate_rose99
@JustinRose99
The Things We Don't Talk About
"Less to do with the glossy efficiency of elite level performance and everything to do with the flawed human tendencies that make the fan able to appreciate the person who makes the golfer."
Struggling with this.
I understand why people go to this event. It’s our livelihood. And maybe things are changing for the better. But to go out of your way to say you’ve educated yourself on the issues, and then to be this ignorant to the hypocrisy.. makes me feel a little ill
About time there was a Women’s English Open or British Masters.. crying shame given the popularity of golf in the UK and the quality of female professional golfers this country has produced 🏴
It’s a pleasure to watch
@JonRahmpga
when he’s firing on all cylinders, but this win will further help encourage a new generation of Spanish golfers into our beautiful game. Vamos Rahmbo 👊🏼🏆
“.. that will ensure riches for elite players regardless of how they perform”
I understand where this is coming from, obviously, but… tour level professional golf should be a sport, not an exhibition.
Right????! (Please)