“Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden” is the urban legend associated for the word golf, so if women are welcome, why doesn’t EC have a women’s golf team?

With the recent craze of women dominating the green, some even at the tender age of 13, it’s a wonder more females have not wanted to try their hand at golf.

“There hasn’t been much interest,” Terry Titus, men’s golf coach, said. “In the last six years, I have only had two women express an interest in coming out to play,” Titus said.

Although EC’s golf team is co-ed, there hasn’t been a woman considered good enough to make the team within the last six years.

The lack of women has made the team appear to be male-only, but it is open for everyone to join.

“One woman came close to making the team and the other one wasn’t close to making it at all,” Titus said. “Budget-wise, I can only keep so many players and the women just didn’t make the cut”.

The lack of interest from EC women makes it impossible to have a separate golf team from the men.

“I just have no interest in it. I never have,” Nenita San Pedro, nursing major, 22, said “I think a lot of women think it’s too boring.”

Titus explains that there are a lot of opportunities at the universities for the women golfers, which may partially explain the lack of women golfers at campus.

“They tend to try and get into the universities right out of high school,” Titus said.

Mt. San Antonio College is one of the few community colleges to have a women’s golf team, perhaps harboring the next Annika Sorenstam or Michelle Wie on its roster.

“I really like to play golf, but it’s only for fun,” Sharareh Afshar, music major, 19, said. “I just don’t think I’m good enough to play on the EC team”.

“I think it would be intimidating to play on the same team as the men,” Afshar said.

Titus said EC is lucky to have had a golf team since 1947, even though golf is not a sport that is played at all community colleges.

Some community colleges have dropped their golf programs entirely, even for the men.

“We have an open golf qualifier in January. Anyone may show up and try out,” Titus said.