I have been fuming about this since Martha Burke departed her ivory tower of ignorance en route to protest the Masters. People amassed by the tens to aid Burke in her protest, which had the bark of a junkyard dog and the bite of a crippled, toothless poodle.

I have been fuming about this since Annika Sorenstam's trip to the Colonial. Her stellar four strokes over the cut performance would usher in a new era of equality in the golf world, as we all clasped hands and chided chauvinistic males for not believing in the power of woman.

I have been fuming about this since Michelle Wie missed the cut by one shot two weeks ago, and people sang from the mountains on high, the future of golf was here today. Hooray, hooray!

Then Greg Norman wrenched common sense back from the salivating, tightly clenched jaws of inane specious idealists with a stroke of diplomatic genius.

"I think the rightful place is that women play on their tour and we play on ours," Norman told the Associated Press. "It all started with Annika to promote herself and promote women's golf, but at the end of the day, it can be very detrimental."

What a novel idea. How simple and wonderful and all too impossible a concept for some airhead twits to believe in. What most equal rights activists don't realize is there would be a lack of quality players, sponsor money and overall competition, which would kill the LPGA Tour.

If the militant feminists of the world and LPGA players want to have the best players in the field no matter the gender, we should let them. Let's do it the ultra-fair way and create one tour where both sexes are allowed to compete.

Why do I have the feeling that most players in the LPGA would balk at that idea. It's because maybe three or four of them would still have jobs as professional golfers. That's the thing, women are not equal to men on the golf course. So yes, the occasional Michelle Wie comes along and essentially gets the shaft because women aren't allowed on the Tour.

Go ask a survivor of the Holocaust if life is fair. Go ask a direct descendant of slavery if life is fair. Life is not fair, and it generally becomes worse when we try too hard to make it fair. But let's go ahead and create one tour with the same rules, regulations and distances. Then let's ask the over 150 unemployed female golfers how awesome Michelle Wie is after making the cut in a field still dominated by men. Sound fair?