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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 3514462" data-attributes="member: 19675">Bobby Riggs was 55 and out of shape when he played Billy Jean King, who was 30 and still in good shape.  He spent 2 or so years at the top of the sport...in the 1940s.  BJK retired with 39 Grand Slam titles and is considered one of the elite women athletes of all time.Hardly a fair matchup.There are guys on the pro men's tour who haven't won in their last 20 starts, but still qualify.Babe Zaharias was the first woman to qualify for the men's PGA...in 1945.The next to do so was Michelle Wie at the SK Telecom Open in 2006, and she has failed to qualify in seven other tournaments.  It was an Asian tournament.  Here are the leading final round scores (Wie tied for 35th).Do you see any major names on that list?  Did Wie finish 35th behind the elite of the sport, or just some other fairly good male players?Annika Sorenstam tried in 2003 to qualify at the Colonial and didn't make the cut.  She has, to the best of my knowledge, never even attempted to qualify again.Se Ri Pak did finish 10th in a men's event, but it was a second tier event in Korea- not the same level of competition as in the PGA.  Then again, she's only, what...17?  She may still make it.A 61 year gap between female PGA qualifiers & no winners on the men's tour.  That is not exactly success.Don't get me wrong- any one of them could beat me or anyone I personally know at golf...but I'm not on the PGA tour.That is a game that is intrinsically designed to be played by mixed-sex teams.Try a women's or mixed-sex team against a men's doubles tennis team.  (I'm not an expert, but I believe they play under slightly different rules.)</blockquote>

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