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At a time when women did not play sports, Mary Stuart was an avid golfer who reportedly kept a cottage at St. Andrews. Her love of the game inspired others take up the clubs, which is why she is known as “the Mother of Golf.” A portrait of her still hangs on the wall of the golf museum at St. Andrews.

After Mary lost her head Rougned Odor Jersey , women stop playing the same in growing numbers. In fact, there is almost no evidence of their participation in the sport from the 1500s to the 1800s. Though golf had been exported to other European nations, the game was still more in Scotland than anywhere else. So it is fitting that the first women’s golf tournament was held at the Musselburgh Golf Club in Scotland in 1811.

Although some men scoffed, women kept playing until they were finally accepted at the most respected golf course in the world. St. Andrews created the Ladies Club in 1867, which was the first women’s golf organization in history! The course became a Mecca for female golfers around the world.

When the game finally arrived in America, it was embraced by female players from the start. The first women’s tournament and the United States Golf Association were played and founded in the same year Nolan Ryan Jersey , 1894. One year later, the first U.S. women’s amateur championship drew distaff players from across the nation.

The modern era of women’s golfing began when the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) was established in 1950. While the girls are not nearly as visible or as wealthy as the guys, most female golfers make a good living. No, they aren’t pulling in endorsement dollars like Tiger Wood or Phil Michelson, but they do quite well on tour. That is, if they can find something to wear.

Golfers have a long and well-earned reputation of being the worst-dressed athletes on earth Ivan Rodriguez Jersey , which may very well be true. But at least the guys have options! When girls first started playing, they had to wear heavy golf dresses for women that were uncomfortable and circumscribing. As the sport gained a wide female audience, golf outerwear for women and skirts became available.

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A UN commission probing Syria rights abuses has gathered enough evidence to convict President Bashar al-Assad of war crimes, an outgoing member of the commission said in interviews published Sunday.

Veteran former war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte, who is preparing to step down after five years serving in the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria, told Swiss media the evidence against Assad was sufficient to secure a war crimes conviction.

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"That is why the situation is so frustrating. The preparatory work has been done, but nevertheless, there is no prosecutor and no court," she told Sonntagszeitung. "It's a tragedy."

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Larry Nassar, the disgraced former USA Gymnastics team doctor who admitted to sexually abusing underage girls, has been sentenced to 60 years in federal prison on child pornography charges, a court official said Thursday.

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In November, he pleaded guilty to seven counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and admitted to using his position to sexually abuse underage girls. Three of those charges related to victims who were under age 13. He will be sentenced on those state charges in January.

More than 140 women and girls have accused him of sexual misconduct, including several American gymnasts on the "Fierce Five" team that won gold at the 2012 Olympics.

Nassar pleaded guilty in July to receiving child pornography in 2004, possessing child pornography from 2003 to 2016 and destroying and concealing evidence in 2016 as he was under investigation, according to the US attorney's office for the Western District of Michigan.

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