Lana Lawless (55) won the RE/MAX World Long Drive Women’s Championship. This goes to show that you can’t generate controversy in golf without shooting it up with artificial hormones. From FOX Sports:
“I am shocked more women are not complaining about this,” three-time world champion Sean “The Beast” Fister said. (Beast Fister?) “It’s not an apples-to-apples deal. Men and women are different.”
Added former women’s world champion Lee Brandon: “In 2005, the USGA approved transgender involvement in competition, so I don’t see how we can dispute this. However, if a woman has the knees, hands and feet of a man, she has genetic real estate that is more gifted.”
"I am a woman," insisted Lawless, who adopted her new name from classic-movie star Lana Turner but declines to discuss her previous name. "I've lost muscle mass. I don't have big guns (biceps). They give you a drug that stops you from producing testosterone. Your muscles atrophy. In about seven months, I went from 245 pounds to 175 pounds. I've gained back a little bit, but I feel like I don't have any power.
"Sure, I used to be a man. For 18 years, I was a cop for the city of Rialto, one of the most violent cities in Southern California. I worked the gang unit. I had a very tough and mean exterior. People didn't want to mess with me. She said firmly, "That other person, that 245-pound SWAT cop I used to be, he's gone. He's not coming back."
Lawless had her supporters, including 2007 men’s champ Mike Dobbyn, who observed, “When I watch her, I don’t see any advantage. She hits it like an LDA (Long Drivers of America) woman.”
The rules governing transgender golf competition are precise and numerous. For Lawless, they included mandatory doctor reports, lab results within normal female limits and onsite testing.
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