[Jem Smith]

Footage of a dude mansplaining how to swing to professional golfer and coach Georgia Ball has gone viral.

https://womensagenda.com.au/life/sport/awkward-footage-of-a-guy-mansplaining-to-a-pro-golfer-goes-viral/

'As she was filming a video of herself hitting some golf balls, the man interrupted her by saying “excuse me”, and proceeded to give her “swing advice”.

“What you’re doing there. You shouldn’t be doing that,” the man says. “You should be right through. Swing and follow through.”
...
Ball was clearly stunned by his audacity but handled the awkward interaction gracefully, by saying “Okay, I’m going through a swing change at the minute, so…”.

Interrupting her again, the man feels compelled to give her his credentials, telling her: “I’ve been playing golf for 20 years, what you need to do is follow through a lot quicker than what you’re doing there right now.”

Laughing off his cringeworthy advice, Ball simply turns to hit a strikingly well-executed shot, proving, without a doubt, that she already knows what she’s doing.

He can’t seem to handle her talent, as he decides to take credit for the swing, saying, “See how much better that was?” '

[Fergal]

Has gender really such an important role in this? If that guy had given unwelcome and unsolicited advice to a male golfer this probably would not have gone viral. If a woman gave unwelcome and unsolicited advice to female golfer, it would probably not have gone viral either.

It hasn't happened that often, but on the occasions when someone who knew less than me about something started giving me advice on that topic, I don't really see how gender is relevant to that situation.

[Jem Smith]

Has gender really such an important role in this?

In short, yes. This happens to women a lot. So many women, myself included, have similar stories (I've had men with no relevant qualifications try to tell me the basics of my own profession, my hobbies, the genre of a book I was the author of, how periods, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding work, my nationality, what my own tattoo means, what my own name means - almost all of what they said was incorrect too). It's not that women never give unsolicited advice, because they do, but men doing so on the assumption that they know more than a woman is a much more common phenomenon, especially in stereotypically male dominated fields like most sports. This was such a classic example too, because of the way he kept talking over her when she tried to tell him she didn't need his advice, and her fawning response to it (women are socialised to be polite in situations like this because we have good reason to fear what an angry strange man might do if we offend him).

The term was first coined by Rebecca Solnit in this essay, and she explains it better than I could if you're interested.
https://www.guernicamag.com/rebecca-solnit-men-explain-things-to-me/