[hcw]

Michelle Wie has a very good technique, is a good athlete, and is about the same size or bigger as a young Tiger Woods. Most of the very long hitting women, are about the same size as many men.

I doubt that Michelle has an unusual level of testosterone. She is a tall girl with long levers, and a good swing. She can probably fly the ball about 270 or 280. That's very good, but would not be unusual on the men's tour. With the new balls and equipment, Fred Funk can probably get close to that.

Actually... I asked a doctor(MD) what she thought the answer to the original question was. Her one word answer was... testosterone.

If you took two athletes (one male, one female) exactly the same height and weight and had them train exactly the same way... the male would be stronger because of the testosterone advantage.

Remember the Olympic Swimming controversy?

lagster this kinda parallels my point of view in the physics thread...in general for a human "golfing machine":

more mass->more muscle->more acceleration->more distance

...so i think maybe we're saying mostly the same thing with different words...cheers!

-hcw