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Opinion: Women deserve same chance to excel in golf as men do
By Irene Kim and Hailey Lee
GSS correspondents
If women players were to join this year’s esteemed President’s Cup, several players would have set their feet on the entrance of the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club in Songdo with the possibility of victory: Inbee Park, Lydia Ko and Stacy Lewis.
Inbee Park ranks 1st among all the other LPGA women players worldwide with her exceptional golf expertise. Overall, she has achieved 16 victories during her career, seven in major championships — the Evian Mastership, the U.S. Women’s Open and the Kia Classics, for example. With her 6th victory, Inbee surpassed her predecessor — Park Se-ri, who set the foundation for Korean golf around the world. She was honored as the LPGA Money Leader in 2012 and 2013, LPGA Scoring Leader in 2012 and the first Korean LPGA Player of the Year in 2013. With an average score of 12.87, Park leads the international golf field.
The player second in rank is Lydia Ko of New Zealand, who was born in Korea. Throughout her career, Ko achieved nine victories in LPGA, and 13 victories in pro tournaments. As early as age 12, Ko was known as a golf prodigy. Her scoring average is 12.37.
Ranked as the 3rd best player, Stacy Lewis has 11 LPGA Tour Victories, including 2011 Kraft Nabisco Championship, and the 2012 Mobile Bay LPGA Classic, the ShopRite LPGA Classic, the Navistar LPGA Classic, and the Mizuno Classic. One of her highlights in her career includes receiving the Vare Trophy for a career-low scoring average of 69.484.
Despite these three pre-eminent women golf players’ exceptional abilities, they could not participate in this year’s Presidents Cup. Though some point to differences between physical strength as a reason why men and women can’t compete together, in the end, it’s debatable whether or not women are receiving the same opportunities as male players do.
—This story was published with cijournalism.org, the student-led news website of Chadwick International School. For more information, contact CI Journalism editors-in-chief Diana Minjin Kim mkim2016@chadwickschool.org and Sarah Choi s2choi2017@chadwickschool.org.
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