I started playing golf from a young age. I loved it immediately, but even as a kid there was always something that stood out to me…I rarely saw other women.

When I started playing competitively in middle school, there wasn’t a girls golf team so they stuck me with the boys. I felt like my presence was a joke and I was only included because they didn’t have a choice.

By high school, we finally had a girls team. But we had less funding and less recognition compared to our counterpart. We fought for what we deserved and that fight has stuck with me ever since then, because that same fight happens even at the professional level. Women aren’t getting the light they have earned and the spotlight finds the men first.

Fairway Foreward is a space dedicated to the women of golf. I’m answering the questions I had growing up: Who was the first woman to play golf? Who was the first to compete against men? Who fought for the tours? How has the dress code changed? What was the scene like for Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Annika Sorenstam, and Michelle Wie West. I want to learn those stories and share them with the world.

This isn’t going to be just a history of golf page. Women’s golf is changing fast, and it’s exciting to watch. On tour, Nelly Korda and Jeeno Thitikul are playing some of the best golf in the world. Online, women are putting themselves on social media in a male-dominated sport. YouTube channels like Golf Girl Games, Gabby Golf Girl, and Georgia Ball Golf grow the game and show young women they can do this too. Not only that, style on the course has evolved as well, from long skirts of the early days to today’s mix of athletic wear, pants, skirts, and looks that let women express themselves while also being athletes.

Here’s what you’ll find at Fairway Foreward:

The achievements: the record-breakers and trailblazers. How women carved out their place in this game, year by year. The style: how women’s golf fashion has evolved and what it says about the sport. The present: the players, the creators, and the voices that are moving golf forward.

That is where the name, Fairway Foreward, comes from. It’s not a typo. “Fore”, is a word every golfer knows…it means look out, something’s heading your way. Women have been headed this way for over a century and we are here to stay. This blog is about them and about moving the game foreward.

Welcome to Fairway Foreward.