Brittany Lincicome will play golf against men: where is the problem?

Lack of resistance to Lincicoma, an eighth L.P.G.A. The winner of the Tour with two major titles, seems to reflect the overall gains made by women in the sports arena since 2003. Signs of Progress – Price Equality in Grand Slam Tennis Tournaments, Danica Patrick leading the Indianapolis 500 on the way to a fourth Kelly Kulick and Liz Johnson win Pro Bowlers Association tournaments, Becky Hammon in the NBA "I think a lot of young people think that what Brittany does is n? is not a big deal or that it's cool, "said Lynn Marriott, who created a golf school with Nilsson.

the defending champion of the United States Open, Ariya Jutanugarn, and the man who won the Irish Open, Russell Knox. After Jutanugarn's great victory, Knox texted Marriott and Nilsson and asked, only halfway, they could arrange for Jutanugarn to give him a bunker lesson.

"The L.P.G.A. has come a long way," said Waldorf, 55. "Women have such good games and they are so beautiful, that they have as much as men to offer, if not more, as ambassadors of the brand."

The progress made by women is evident in their scores. This month, Sei Young Kim, 25, shot 31 under par at Thornberry Creek L.P.G.A. Classic in Wisconsin to surpass the record of the tour – established by Sorenstam in 2001 and matched by Kim in 2016 – by four strokes. At the Girls Junior P.G.A. Championship this month, Yealimi Noh beat 24-under, an event record, for the win.

"I just think we have made tremendous progress across the board," L.P.G.A. Veteran Angela Stanford said.

Stanford expressed mixed feelings about the beginning of Sorenstam's PGA Tour in 2003. She wrote an essay for Sports Illustrated saying that L.P.G.A. had more to lose as an organization than Sorenstam had to win as an individual. If she played well, Stanford said, people would assume Sorenstam was too good for L.P.G.A. Tower. And if Sorenstam played badly, she wrote, people would conclude that "the only reason she dominates our tour is that we can all stink."

Fifteen years later, Stanford, 40, says he does not have reservations on the Lincicome adventure.