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Show proven clearly that sex appeal is no handicap in golf Jan Stephenson is 5 feet 4.115 pounds, and blonde. She earned a quarter of a million dollars on American golf courses last year and at least a million more off those courses Her official earnings of $193,364 placed her fourth on the money-winnin- g list of the Ladies Professional Golf Association, and. paired with a talented young pro named Fred Couples, she picked up $50,000 more for winning the unoffig cial malefemale team championship. That victory was the fourth of her finest year. The one she prized most among the other three was the United States Open the most prestigious tournament on the women's circuit a tournament she had dreamed of winning ever since, at 13, she won her first title, the New South Wales schoolgirl championship. Jan Stephenson, clearly, is not just another pretty body. Her body, not incidentally, is as awesome as her earnings. She personally destroys the myth that women amply endowed cannot possibly develop a decent golf swing. "Just crunch them dow n and sw ing." Stephenson advises women similarly constructed. She is not the least bit bashful about her build she markets a Jan Stephenson posterthat shows her skirt flying, exposing her legs, and a Jan Stephenson calendar that shows her in a variety of stunning poses. Stephenson flaunts her figure so frankly that a few years ago a sister pro, Jane Blalock, labeled a Stephenson fashion spread "quasipomographic." The fashion spread had appeared not in any male chauvinist publication, but in Fairway, the official Ladies Professional Golf Association magazine. Blalock, writing a guest column for the Miami Herald. w ondered whether the LPGA had decided to sell sex instead of golf. Stephenson, at first, was stung by the attack. "1 thought Janie was a friend of mine." she recalls, and she didn't even tell me she was going to do it. and when it came out. I w as really upset. But later I felt like should have sent her a case of blue-eve- d . year-endin- ) 1 continued PARADE MAGAZINE MARCH 18, 1984 PAGE 5 |
