{"id":681,"date":"2005-05-05T06:45:15","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T11:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/uncategorized\/could_this_be_the_future_of_the_lpga\/"},"modified":"2005-05-05T06:45:15","modified_gmt":"2005-05-05T11:45:15","slug":"could_this_be_the_future_of_the_lpga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/swing_thoughts\/could_this_be_the_future_of_the_lpga","title":{"rendered":"Could This Be the Future of the LPGA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"miannebagger.jpg\" src=\"\/b\/imgs\/lpga\/mianne_bagger.jpg\" width=\"179\" height=\"251\" class=\"bordered\" \/>Danish born, 37-year old Mianne Bagger, 1995 sexual convert (check out the adam&#8217;s apple), recently became the first to play in a professional women&#8217;s tournament. Turning professional last year, she sold everything she had when she became eligible to qualify for the LET. Mianne is now the first transsexual to play on a professional sports tour since tennis player Renee Richard (aka Richard Raskind) competed during the 1970&#8217;s. But, don&#8217;t worry ladies&hellip; Mianne recently missed the cut in her first event, the Tenerife Open.<\/p>\n<p>The Ladies Golf Union, overseers of the British Open, have followed the European Union and the International Olympic Committee to allow transgenders to compete in women&#8217;s golf events, putting women&#8217;s sports at a possible disadvantage by pushing gender-neutral policies.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nTy Votaw, commisioner of the LPGA,  stated just last year that the LPGA could be next!  As Robert Knight, Concerned Women for America&#8217;s Director of Culture and Family Institute rebutted, &#8220;This would ruin the LPGA with &#8220;fake women&#8221; playing golf; importing men into the women&#8217;s tour is wrong and would destroy the integrity of the sport.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch out guys, the PGA Tour could be next!<\/p>\n<p>Imagine Michelle Wie, aka Michael Wie, crushing 300 yard drives down the middle of the fairway at the Masters. Perhaps Annika gets tired competing with the puny females on the LPGA and converts to try her luck on the PGA Tour&hellip; she just got a <a href=\"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/lpga\/sorenstam_bogeys_marriage_files_for_divorce\/\" title=Annika Sorenstam Bogeys Marriage, Files for Divorce\">divorce<\/a>, you know&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>Or, how about &#8220;Philomena&#8221; Mickelson or &#8220;Tigress&#8221; Woods switching sides to go play against the ladies on tour? They could probably win all the tournaments, playing from the whites, although they would give up major earnings potential!<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, that&#8217;s how the LPGA will gain it&#8217;s future excitement? In golf, distance and aggressive shots make for excitement. Perhaps men will change to women to make the LPGA more exciting! It is a way to compete on tour and win!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"credit\">Photo Credit: &copy; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#38;u=\/afp\/20050408\/sp_wl_afp\/golflepgaespbagger_050408202415\" title=\"Transsexual Mianne Bagger\">AFP\/File Photo<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gender-swapping! That&#8217;s right, the first male-born, sexually tweaked &#8220;female&#8221; is now being allowed to compete in the Women&#8217;s British Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-swing_thoughts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Could This Be the Future of the LPGA? 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