SHEGOLF: Spotlighting the Voices of Women Golfers
Mission Statement
Welcome to SHEGOLF: Spotlighting the Voices of Women Golfers! This blog is a place where women golfers can freely share their own voices and their own experiences, and is also place where female golfers can learn from and relate to one another through the stories they share.
In a male-dominated sport, experiences, perspectives, and voices of female golfers are often overlooked. This blog collects stories and comments that shed light on the female golfer's experience. This isn't something that can be seen on the news, or something that can be read about in golf magazines. This is a blog with real-life stories about female golfers who strive for success in this sport and have persevered through highs and lows. While you may have seen them play or read about their successes, their tournament results, their golf statistics, and their rankings, you haven't heard their stories...until now.
Our Work
These are the fields that this blog covers:
Personal Experiences/Message to Female Golfers
This field features written works by female golfers which detail aspects of their experiences throughout their golf journey and/or contain words of advice for other golfers either on a technical, mental, or emotional level.
Authors have the liberty to approach this field from whatever angle they see fit, but for inspiration, prompts for this category include but are not limited to:
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When did you start playing golf and how did you get into it?
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What do you feel you have gained from this sport?
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What is your favorite memory as a junior golfer?
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What’s it like competing in golf versus other sports?
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For those of you on a co-ed team, what is it like competing alongside and against boys? How would you describe the level of respect and equality you experience on the team?
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What advice would you offer for younger female junior golfers?
*Note*: Articles can fall under more than one prompt
Highlights
This field features written works by female golfers which highlight individual(s) who have been impactful/influential in their development in this sport.
Authors have the liberty to approach this field from whatever angle they see fit, but for inspiration, prompts for this category include but are not limited to:
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Describe your relationship with the individual(s) in question and how they helped advance your golf game.
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Describe a certain piece of advice that individual offered which you found meaningful.
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Write a miniature biography of the individual(s) describing how they got into teaching and their teaching style and philosophy (basically similar to a news feature).
*Note*: Articles can fall under more than one prompt
General Articles
This field features written works by female golfers that take the form of general news articles. They could feature recent events/tournaments in female junior golf, interviews with tournament officials or golf coaches, a biography of a historical female golfer figure, etc.
It is essentially an open ended field designed as a “wildcard” section for female golfers who have article ideas that don’t fall under the previous two categories.
