This is a promotional gimmick...
...and that's all. The idea of the whole pro tour, mens or womens, is to MAKE MONEY.
There is more interest, there will be more tickets sold and more TV $ because she is playing. Viola.
The folks that run the Colonial have 8 sponsors exemptions that they can give to anyone they want. Elvis, me, a one-armed paperhanger, blind person or Annika Sorrenstam. She is not the first person, who maybe not ought to be there, ever considered for a spot. I give Annika a pat on the back for having the balls to show up. No, wait. How can I re-phrase that?
As far as "right" to be there goes, that's the end of the story.
As far as "should" be, name a tour that excludes, by definition, based on gender. Answer: The LPGA, Ladies Professional Golf Association. Not the PGA.
ST: As usual, you are, um, no name calling here. Damn. What are you? I know! I'll call you "Vijay!". Yeah!
I say every guy who finishes below her should lose their card and never play another event. No since in having those people waste space on the tour.
Every single guy on the PGA Tour EARNED the right to be there. Vijay, the real one, doesn't want her there simply based on her sex. You, the fake Vijay, don't want anyone who shoots higher than her to keep their job because of her sex.
CLUE: Annika has played with the big boys plenty of times and played from the tips as well. She knows what she can do and the boys know what she can do. The interest is in getting real and fake Vijays to say something controversial so we can all talk about it.
The people you want fired all know what they can do as well. That doesn't mean they do it every week or even every day. Pro golf on big time golf courses is a cold hearted #####. When the camera goes on and you are playing for serious money, what you can do goes out the window. That is why we play the game.
Annika knows fact certain that, if she plays very well, she will probably make the cut. She knows that if she plays her best for 4 straight days she even has a shot to win. The same is true for 85% of the men. The top 15% of men should make the cut playing mediocre golf. And there is the difference.
Billie Jean beat up an old man. Annika has gotta play lights out to beat the best in the world IF all of them are playing poorly.
Any guy on tour WILL make the cut and probably win any week on the ladies tour. All these guys shoot low 60's or better on a short course with soft greens and exposed pins. They are that good.
If the ladies tour were open tomorrow to anyone who could qualify, there would be no women left in a few weeks and the field would be filled with guys you've never heard of.
Anyone wanna see what Tiger would do against the ladies? Jeff Sluman? Charles Howell? I know! Vijay? Nick Price?
Annika will play like the pro she is and gut it out no matter what happens. However, I will be blown away if she even comes close to making the cut. I'll be watching and I WILL be pulling for her, just like real golf fans do for just about everybody who puts a peg in the ground in a tournament.
Now, if Annika REALLY wants to impress somebody she can go qualify for the MENS US Open. Or go through the men’s Q school.
FACT time. Annika leads the ladies in greens in regulation, which is important. She is second in driving distance. That is impressive until you realize Julie Inkster is 6th, 3 yards behind Annika. Julia is a GREAT golfer but is in her 40’s. Point being, the ladies hit driver on just about every hole. The men average in the 270’s, Anna’s average, hitting fairway metals and long irons along with a few drivers per round, especially at Colonial.
She is going to have a long way home on most holes which translates into LONG lag putts which, at Colonial, translates into bunches of three putts.
The more I think about it the more impressed I will be if she makes the cut.
I'm pulling for her because it will be some awesome golf to watch if she does well.
Well, I did hear there was a story where she could out-drive many of the men on the PGA Tour, but not the part where Annika averaged 275 yards. 
I personally think - more power to them. After all it was all the women who came before my generation that made the things possible for me, and other females of my generation, to do things that are typically considered "male only". And more power to A.S. for paving the way down another path for another generation of females.
