Corrie Pikul

I don’t usually read the Sports section, but this excellent article in the New York Times talks about how difficult it is for women to balance work and family…especially when those women work as professional golfers! Writer Karen Crouse focuses on Cristie Kerr, who, at 32, has accomplished her lifelong goal of becoming the No. 1 golfer in the world. However, Kerr feels like she’s still a long way off from achieving her other big life goal: becoming a mom. Kerr says that she always thought she’d have a baby by now, but although she and her husband are excited to start their family, they don’t want Kerr to give up her golf career while she’s at the top of her game.

“For Kerr, the impediment to motherhood is golf, and there is no automatic relief,” Crouse writes. “A woman’s athletic prime and her peak child-bearing years overlap like a total eclipse of the moon. A woman’s fertility peaks in her mid-20s and declines sharply after the age of 35, a real conundrum for golfers, whose games, like the courses they play, take years to mature.”

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