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An Arizona woman has gone viral after sharing how her killer shot in golf silenced men who were complaining on the course.
While golfing is and should be enjoyed by all, it has arguably garnered a reputation as a men’s game. But with one swing, one Arizona woman was able to shut sexist doubters up.
It goes without saying that golfing etiquette dictates you wait your turn to tee off. However, in a viral video posted by TikToker Tia Wolcott (@_tswings), this wasn’t happening.
On-screen text read, “POV: You’re a female on the golf course waiting to tee off and some guy thinks I’m the problem until he saw my swing.”
As she prepares to take her shot, a man shouts, “She gonna hit?”
The person accompanying her replies, “We’re not going anywhere, bro.”
In response, the man repeats himself before continuing to complain. As he complains, the person with Wolcott repeats, “Hey, we’re not going anywhere. Hey, take your time because we’re not going anywhere. It’d be different if we were holding it up.”
Wolcott then takes her shot, and the grumbling in the background fades away. The video ends with her laughing.
In an email statement to BroBible. Wolcott said, “On a busy Friday afternoon at High Cedars Golf Course in Orting WA, my friend Dalton and I were waiting to tee off on the back nine. Play had slowed down because the walking foursome ahead of us was taking time as well as the people in front of them, so while they moved toward the green we decided to hit. Dalton teed off from the blues, and I walked up to the whites. I asked him to record my swing because I had been fading everything and wanted to see what was going wrong.”
It was at this point, she said, that things took a turn.
‘Tired Of Men Feeling Entitled To Police Women On The Golf Course’
“As the twosome behind us finished putting, one of the men started yelling at us as shown in the video,” she explained. “He hadn’t seen Dalton hit and apparently assumed he was going to have to wait a long time simply because he thought he had to wait for Dalton to tee off and me to tee off. So because of that I didn’t take a practice swing because he was yelling at me so I just stepped up and hit a clean drive straight down the middle about 250 yards. The yelling stopped immediately, and he never said another word to us.”
She continued, “We spent the next seven holes waiting on the group in front of us. It was a busy afternoon on a public course where the holes sit close together, so the pace can look slower than it is. We finished in three hours and fifty minutes.”
According to Wolcott, there was no marshal on the course, as there were no pacing issues.
“That man had no reason to yell especially not at a woman in her backswing,” she noted. “But especially he based it on probably some stereotype that women take forever or can’t hit the ball. I’m tired of men feeling entitled to police women on the golf course. Especially when that women played in college, caddies and is a backswing golf event pro. My work is golf you don’t think I would know golf etiquette.”
Golfing As A Woman: Other Experiences
Fellow female golfers shared similar stories in the comments. “I remember playing a round with my dad years ago and we got paired with two guys who were clearly annoyed they had to play with a girl,” one wrote. “I play from the men’s tees. When I walked up to the 1st hole and promptly outdrove both of them, they immediately shut up. Some men are so toxic.”
“This happened last week when my husband and I were golfing AT OUR CLUB,” a second said. “New Ranger came up twice yet couldn’t SEE the two groups of four old men ahead of us. Husband called pro shop and at the end of the front, my husband got an apology. Ranger wouldn’t even look at me.”
“Me the other day having to bully 10+ old men off the first tee who were trying to cut in front of my tee time…then I pipe one 270 down the middle and shut them all up,” a third recounted, adding a painted nail emoji.
And a fourth chimed in, “I play with women, and the way we are treated is insane. I can drive 235 yards, so I typically always have to wait, but eventually we start getting hit into when we are waiting on every hole for the people in front of us. There’s been several times I’ve had to tell the group behind us that we are waiting also.”
Being Rushed On The Course
Beyond commenting, female GolfTokers have also posted about their own experiences of misogyny on the course. As previously reported by BroBible, TikTok user Nicki Hosking (@nickihosking) posted a video recounting her run-in with male teenaged golfers.
The group of teenagers behind her and her friends were impatient over how long one of her friends was apparently taking to tee off.
One of the teens rolled over in their golf cart, swatted at them, and urged the friend to hit the ball. They also said to the TikToker, “You guys don’t hit that far. Just hit.”
“First of all, are we assuming we can’t hit that far because we’re girls?” she asked viewers.
She told the group to “go f— themselves.”
“I can guarantee on my life that if we were dudes or had a dude with us, they never would have pulled that s— right?” she said.
When an older gentleman came over and gave them some ‘helpful’ advice, Hosking grew more frustrated—especially since they kept hitting into her and trying to rush her when it was the group at the front who was slowing things down.
“It felt like they assumed we were the problem simply because we were women,” the TikToker said in an email to BroBible. “I genuinely don’t believe they would have spoken to or treated a group of men the same way. We weren’t holding up the course—we were waiting just like everyone else and trying to play safely.”