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Earlier this month President Obama made some sports news. It seems that the New York Times found that he's got a regular basketball game going in the White House and women have been left off all the lineups. I can understand you want to play it careful, so I've got your next tee-off group. Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin, Democrat from Wisconsin and a toaster-toting lesbian. Match her with Barney Frank, gay Democrat from Massachusetts, and throw in Kay Bailey Hutchison, gun toting Republican Senator from Texas.

Our lesbian sports guru Helen Wortham fantasizes about Robin Roberts giving her private lessons at the US Women's Golf Open, meanwhile Lorena Ochoa, Ji Yai Shin, Cristie Kerr and Paula Creamer will vie for the title.

The University of Minnesota is denying claims that it demoted the women's golf team's associate coach because she is a lesbian, after she was allegedly hired under a different job description. Katie Brenny, 30, was hired in August under the pretense that her new job would allow her to recruit, train, and travel with the women's golf team.

It's bogey, bogey, no par at the US Women's Open golf tournament in Saucon Valley. Our resident lesbian golf guru Helen Wortham wraps up the swings so far from Lorena Ochoa, Na Yeon Choi, Cristie Kerr, Paula Creamer and more.

Ellen DeGeneres really does have all the fun. This week on The Ellen DeGeneres Show she welcomes actress Emily Blunt – whose debut film was the lesbian-themed My Summer of Love – and the pair engages in one of Emily’s favorite new past times – mini golf. Emily says she loves the whole golf cart aspect of golf, and of course riding around with a few cold ones in the back of the cart.

In a lawsuit to be filed Wednesday, a former associate women's golf coach at the University of Minnesota alleges that athletic department officials reassigned her to another position because she is gay. Attorneys for former coach Kathryn "Katie" Brenny allege in a 16-page complaint that the university's Board of Regents and golf director John Harris violated Brenny's rights under Minnesota's Human Right Act when she was stripped of her responsibilities in the athletic department and reassigned to a sales position.

The latest nonsensical quote from reality star and possible presidential candidate Donald Trump involves gay marriage and golf clubs.

In the midst of a federal lawsuit from transgender golfer Lana Lawless (pictured), and on the eve of the Transgender Day of Remembrance, the Ladies Professional Golf Association is preparing to admit women not born biologically female. The change — which requires approval from two thirds of the LPGA's membership — may not end Lawless's case, as she is seeking damages over claims that the LPGA prevented her from playing golf professionally.

March 28 - April 3 marks the upcoming LPGA Kraft Nabisco Championship, or as it's still known unofficially — The Dinah Shore Golf Tournament. Entertainer, host and celebrity Dinah Shore founded this major women's golf tournament in 1972 in Rancho Mirage, California. However, that event is only vaguely associated with what most contemporary lesbians know as The Dinah, the major women's party weekend in Palm Springs. So who was Dinah Shore and how does she relate to this event?

The International Olympic Committee has made its decision in the choice of adding two events to the 2016 Summer Games, and it’s gotten my lesbian and feminist dander way up. The committee said it was a challenging choice of baseball against softball, golf against roller sports, squash vs. karate vs. rugby.

What Dinah Shore Weekend Shore Weekend is a golf tournament? This week Helen Wortham talks Dinah Shore tournament winner Brittnay Lincicome. Plus the UConn Huskies' women make history. C. Vivian Stringer makes the Basketball Hall of Fame! And more...

Writer and photographer Jenn Kennedy loves a good get-away and she and her girlfriend found one just hours north of Los Angeles in stunning Ojai. What more could a lesbian couple want than golf, good food and dual spa time at the gorgeous Ojai Valley Inn and Spa?

Lana Lawless, a women’s world champion in long-drive golf, is suing the LPGA after being denied entry into the same event this year because of a policy that says competitors must be “female at birth.” Her federal lawsuit claims that the requirement violates California civil rights law. The suit also names Long Drivers of America and its corporate sponsors Dick’s Sporting Goods and Re/Max, and tournament sponsor CVS.

Nearly a thousand athletes and volunteers are slated to descend upon Vancouver, Canada, this week to compete in the second Outgames, a global LGBT sporting competition. Eight hundred athletes will compete in badminton, dance sport, golf, poker, soccer, softball, tennis, track and field, volleyball, and long-distance running events. The "eco-challenge" is a multisport event that includes hiking, swimming, rappelling, Tyrolean rope traverse, biking, and map and compass navigation.

15-year-old Lydia Ko cemented her victory at the Canadian Women’s Open Sunday, making her the youngest winner in LPGA tour history. The record had been previously held by Lexi Thompson, who was 16 when she won the Navistar LPGA Classic in Alabama last September.