Beauty picked over talent as magazine renews golf sexism debate

Miss New York Kira Kazantsev wins the 2015 Miss America contest.

Golf is under fire again for promoting sex appeal ahead of talent.

Last year there was disappointment that world No 1 Lydia Ko was overlooked for a cover shot on Golf Digest, who preferred serial self-promoter Paige Spiracle with her looks and massive social media presence.

Now Golf magazine has raised eyebrows with its latest edition featuring its fourth annual presentation of the "Most beautiful Women in Golf".

The 2017 parade includes pro golfers Cheyenne Woods, Danielle Kang, Belen Mozo and the sister duo of Jessica and Nelly Korda. But from there it gets a bit cloudy.

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The wife and daughters of former star Ben Screensaver feature, as do a former Miss Idaho (Melissa Jones, wife of PGA Tour pro Matt Jones), golf-mad Miss America winner Kira Kazantzakis, as well as Fox Sports golf and NFL reporter Holly Sanders.

Sanders earns the plaudit of being the only woman to appear in all four editions of the annual lineup.

Some of the golfing links are tenuous at best and have raised the ire of former LPGA Tour professional Anya Alvarez, with the American penning a pointed column for The Guardian.

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Lifelong Woodmont Country Club member resigns over Obama golf controversy

The mayor of a tony Maryland suburb resigned from a prominent golf club on Monday because the club might not welcome President Obama as a member.

Jeffrey Slavin, the mayor of the Montgomery County town of Somerset, wrote in an email that he would not remain a member of Woodmont Country Club because of a recent fevered debate about whether Obama could join.

Some members of the historically Jewish club have said they would not welcome Obama, who has played there four times during his presidency, because of his recent decision not to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution criticizing Israeli settlements.

                                                         

                                                                        
“He has created a situation in the world where Israel’s very existence is weakened and possibly threatened . . .” longtime member Faith Goldstein wrote in a late December email obtained by The Washington Post. “He is not welcome at Woodmont. His admittance would create a storm that could destroy our club.”

Another member, attorney Marc B. Abrams, called it “inconceivable” that Obama should be in the club because of his stance toward Israel.

In the ensuing debate over the email, Slavin, a Democratic activist and a lifelong member of the country club where his father was also a member, said he would lead a mass membership resignation if Obama were not invited to join.

On Monday — which he noted was Martin Luther King Jr. Day — Slavin made good on at least his own resignation.

He wrote in an email to the club’s general manager:

“I can no longer belong to a community:

Where Intolerance is accepted,

Where History is forgotten,

Where Freedom of Speech is denied,

And where the nation’s first black president is disrespected.”

Slavin signed his email “Thanks for many great memories,” followed by a quote from the civil rights anthem “Lift Every Voice and Sing” and then the words “Stay Woke.”

There is no indication that Obama has actually asked to join the 460-acre club off Rockville Pike, though Politico reported last summer that it would be his likely post-presidency choice of golf spots.

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