TORONTO — Gina Izumi was in her first corporate job out of university and told a male colleague her boyfriend enjoyed hitting the links.
If Izumi stayed with him, her colleague said jokingly, Izumi would become a"golf widow" — spending her weekends alone at home looking after the kids and taking on chores while he played yet another round.
More than 25 years later, Izumi is far from a"golf widow." The senior vice-president of customer success and growth markets at software company SAP Canada is now a seasoned golfer married to the man who taught her how to golf. The couple take golf-centric vacations and have a son who got his first clubs at age four and a daughter who routinely beats her mom on the course.
After golf, there is networking and then, a themed discussion — topics have included impostor syndrome, mindfulness and how to build a talent pipeline of women — over dinner. "There's this idea that golf is not a place for women. Well, yes, it is,” said Lisa ‘Longball’ Vlooswyk, an eight-time Canadian long drive champion and women's golf school owner.
"Women are excelling in all aspects of the corporate world, but they don't want to be left out," she said.However, many won’t play in tournaments, especially work-related ones, because they feel they aren’t good enough to compete against men. Farrukah, who moved from Pakistan to Toronto in 2020, only held a golf club once before she signed up for Tee Up for Success, which eventually taught her that golf is a game of strategy rather than strength. Now she's grown confident enough to sign up for tournaments with clients and connected with colleagues she’d never have met before because she didn’t golf.
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