More Women Than Men Choose Golf over Sex - Golf Digest/Golf for Women Survey; Massive Gender Survey Explores Behavioral Differences of Men and Women Golfers.

NEW YORK -- Men are 18 times more likely than women to break a golf club in anger on the course. Women are 19 times more likely to cry. Both sexes swear an almost equal amount but men tend to drink alcohol and gamble more during a round. Also, twice as many women think golf is better than sex.

Such are the revealing and surprising findings of the most extensive gender survey on golf, conducted by the editors of Golf Digest and sister publication Golf For Women. Nearly 5,000 subscribers of both publications (2,262 men, 2,440 women) with an average age of 53 participated in the survey.

Other highlights of the survey include:

Golf and Sex:

--When asked "you have the opportunity to play Augusta National, but in exchange you will have to abstain from sex for one year. Do you accept the tee time" a nearly equal percentage of men (32%) and women (31%) took the tee time.

Etiquette:

--Twice as many women think golf courses are a good place to pick up a date.

--Almost half of the men (47%) admitted to getting into a "verbal confrontation" with other golfers on the course vs. 27% of women.

Fashion

--Women are more likely to carry a rain suit but less likely to play in the rain.

--Women own a lot more golf shoes then men (21% of women admit to owning six or more pairs of shoes, compared to 7% of men).

The full Golf Digest/Golf For Women Gender Survey, along with an analysis of the results by noted humorist and National Lampoon co-founder Henry Beard, can be viewed now at www.golfdigest.com/gender and in the March issue of Golf Digest (on newsstands February 7). An analysis of the results from a women's perspective, also appears now at www.golfforwomen.com/gender and in the March/April issue of Golf For Women (on newsstands February 21).