Q 6

PLAYBOY: How do you deal with the women's movement?

Jan Stephenson: I get a lot of negative mail from women. But no one is more independent that I am. Nobody is as much a boss of his career as I am. I would love to have somebody open my door all the time. Normally, I'll be renting a car at two in the morning going to some little town to do an exhibition the next morning and there will be no one to help me with my bags and I'll have to walk across a dark parking lot. As soon as there's a man around, I forget how to open the door really quickly.

Q 7

PLAYBOY: Which male golfers can you beat?

Jan Stephenson: There's no comparison between male and female athletes--period. If you put us on the same tees, any male player on the tour could outdrive me, because power is so important. If we hit the same irons to the green, I think I could beat them all. Tom Watson's a fantastic putter, and putting is probably the worst part of my game. I work so hard from tee to green, I don't have the hours to spend on the green. When I came over here, I was such a good putter and had such a bad long game. I've overcorrected. But if we all hit five irons in to the green, I'd beat them every time.

Q 8

PLAYBOY: How do male golfers groupies approach you on the off the course?

Jan Stephenson: Off the course, men will interrupt my dinner and ask if I'll have a drink with them. There's no way. Often, they'll tell me off. They think I'm a bitch. It's just that my private time is very important and I'm really a very private person.

On the course, I love the attention. It annoys the girls a lot. It helped me in a tournament last year in Hershey, Pennsylvania. I started about five shots back on Sunday. I bogeyed the first two holes. I had been putting badly all week, but than I made a 30-footer downhill for a birdie. The next hole, I two-putted for another birdie. Later, I made a 15-footer for yet another birdie. A lot of the guys in the gallery started screaming, "You're going to win. We know you can win. Please birdie." My galleries seem to be getting louder and louder. The guys coming out are younger and younger, and half of them don't know anything about golf. They get drunk, and by the fifth hole, they're loud and obnoxious. I love it. They scream, "We love you." Anyway, they convinced me I was going to win the tournament, and I did.

One guy wanted to get to know me so badly that he told everyone that we were secretly married and I didn't want anyone to know. He's crazy. He's not allowed to come on the golf course anymore.

Another guy left me a wedding bouquet in my locker with a note saying, "Please meet met at the church at 9:30 in the morning." All the girls loved that. On the Sunday of the tournament, he showed up dressed in white and carried a bouquet of white flowers all around the golf course. How embarrassing!

Q 9

PLAYBOY: Have you ever had sex on a golf course?

Jan Stephenson: [Long pause] No. I wonder why not; maybe because it's my office. I love to do things that are exciting and different. I've had sex in a lot of places. I wouldn't want to have it in the bunker, because of the sand. I'd kind of like to have it on the green; it would be nice and soft.

Q 10

PLAYBOY: What are your favorite and least favorite features of your body?

Jan Stephenson: I like my flat stomach and my eyes. I absolutely hate my thighs. I don't work out, they get flabby.

Q 11

PLAYBOY: Who are some sexy male and female golfers?

Jan Stephenson: On the women's tour, Nancy Lopez has a certain kind of sex appeal, especially since she's lost weight. There aren't any men on the tour that I think are sexy. I think baseball players have wonderful bodies; golfers don't. But what I want in a man whom I live with is totally different from what I want to look at. Now, among baseball players, I've got to go with Jim Palmer. Unfortunately, I feel like I never got off the ground with Jim. I did a cover with him for a sports magazine. When he arrived, my hair was a curlers and my face was real white and one of my eyes was swollen. I'd been in Florida, and I was allergic to all that pollen. I looked like hell. Jim said, "You're Jan Stephenson?" Thank you. He looked gorgeous. He had a suntan from spring training, and he was wearing a tuxedo. I had to stare into his eyes for two hours while they took pictures. I couldn't find a thing wrong.

Q 12

PLAYBOY: Defend the proposition that golfers make better lovers.

Jan Stephenson: Maybe it's because they have such a good touch. In golf, you have to be good in all areas: You have to be powerful, be strong, have stamina and be able to control yourself. Plus, you have to have an unbelievable touch. All those things are important in making love--especially discipline and patience.