Women-only golf clinics offer a nonthreatening way to get into the game As someone who comes from a family of golfers -- my mother has even made three holes in one -- I should have developed an early affinity for golf. Yet the closest I've come to playing a round was in the arcade game Golden Tee. Then I moved to Chicago and bought a condo next to a public course on Lake Michigan. Watching golfers whack their drives and try to will their putts into the cup, I had two thoughts: "That looks like fun," and, "Where do I begin?" .