All fore the ladies

Because of Abby Liebenthal, thousands of women can picture themselves on a golf course -- in their city, in cities across the country and at golf destinations that once catered largely to men. That visual is powerful, and it helped Liebenthal turn Fore the Ladies into a vibrant women’s golf community.
Liebenthal, the president and founder of Fore the Ladies, works full-time as the assistant director of paid media at the USGA, but her dawn and dusk hours go to Fore the Ladies, a nonprofit designed to bring more women to the game. Liebenthal, 32, hosted her first clinic in 2019, hosted three more in 2020 and by the time pandemic restrictions eased in 2021, had 17 events on the schedule.
Social media was always a catalyst, with commenters asking when she would bring Fore the Ladies to "insert-city-here."

“It was kind of a natural growth,” she said. “People saw what we were doing, and more people saw other friends playing golf and then they in turn wanted to bring it to their community so they could learn and grow their own network of pe...