How to Kill Women's Pro Sports: Step One
Because women's professional sports were in danger of being taken too seriously, our intrepid ladyfriends over at the LPGA Tour are "encouraging" their tour players to Twitter amid a round of golf. As in, follow a putt for birdie with a Tweet about making birdie. GET IT? Birdie tweets. It's funny.
Even though it violates most courses' protocol. And even though it does absolutely nothing to quell critics who say golf's not a real sport. I can just hear them now:
This would never fly on the PGA tour, and not just because mobile phone and PDA use is banned during play. Tiger would make a taxidermied example out of anyone clickity-clicking out Tweets through his backswing.
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