On the right course

For founder Jillian Johnson (front row, center, in white hat), LEGS is more than just a group of women getting together to golf. Jillian Johnson photo Jillian Johnson has learned that she can make the most impact in golf if she does it from the middle ground. A golf group doesn’t have to be just about the golf, and a women’s golf group doesn’t have to play to a stereotype of short skirts. Johnson, 35 and a golfer since high school, found a way to make women’s golf a vehicle for many things when she created the Ladies Executive Golf Society, a women’s organization with a mission to empower women. Johnson sees it as a platform that has given hundreds of women a channel to network and advance themselves and their careers while also playing golf. The acronym, LEGS, is a catchy, tongue-in-cheek response to the conventional images to which women’s golf has often been reduced. “I think you can fight that whole dialogue with humor,” said Johnson, who resides in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband, Sam, whom she met and married on a golf co...