GOLF GROUP LINKS BUSINESSWOMEN.(BUSINESS)

Byline: DANIELLE T. FURFARO Business writer

Colonie Business deal-making on the golf course has been an almost exclusively male activity. The Albany chapter of the Executive Women's Golf Association, which hosted its annual kickoff Thursday, is trying to change that.

The EWGA is an organization dedicated to promoting golf in women's lives as a social and networking tool as well as a sport.

``Golf can be a real asset to women,'' said Carol Nieckarz, financial consultant for Salomon Smith Barney in Albany and the EWGA Albany chapter president. ``If they want to take a client out and learn a lot about them, they can do it on the course, where they'll …