“Women - or men, for that matter - who are not golfing are choosing to neglect one of the most powerful business and career-development tools there is,” declares Hilary Bruggen.

Bruggen may be a tiny bit biased: A former head of global marketing for KPMG, she quit that job to start and run Strelmark, a Washington, D.C., firm that conducts corporate golf-etiquette workshops for companies like Microsoft (Bill Gates is an avid golfer), Deloitte & Touche, Wachovia, and Smith Barney Citigroup.

Still, Bruggen speaks from personal experience: “I got the job as head of global marketing at KPMG in large part because top management knew me - and they knew me from the golf course,” she says.

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