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Carly Cummins/Golf Monthly Contributor

From tee box confusion to dress code dilemmas, here's the side of golf only women know.

The well-known phrase ‘Men are from Venus, women are from Mars’ is applicable to many scenarios in life, golf included. There are just certain things that men (no offence meant) simply don’t understand or appreciate that we women have to deal with.

We’ve put together a list of the most obvious issues we face, there are undoubtedly a dozen more!

Golf Lesson Phobia
Speaking to beginners there is a common theme that taking your first golf lesson or series of golf lessons as a woman is daunting. No matter how much the women’s game is on the rise, this is still a male dominated sport and the women who brave that first hit of a club say that it’s often the hardest thing to accept.

Golf coaches are predominantly male, and while anyone decent will adapt to their style to be sympathetic to the anxieties and nerves felt by newbies to golf, others shrug it off as not relevant and frankly stupid.

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