Volume I No. 12
 09-01-02
 Augusta National, Professional Golf, and Women
 author: Vance Cureton
 © Copyright 2002

 A great thing has happened in America recently. One of the bastions of
 the "Good Ole' Boy" mentality has had to blink. Because of the political
 pressure applied by a rather obscure women's group known as The
 National Council Of Women's Organizations, the Master's Golf Tournament
 will be televised commercial-free in 2003.

 Augusta National Golf Club which runs and organizes the Master's Golf
 Tournament does not have any women as members. And Augusta National
 does not stand alone in that outrage. Across America prestigious golf
 clubs refuse to accept females as members. This all adds to the well-deserved
 reputation of this particular professional sport, and everything surrounding 
 it, as defined by class, race, and lastly gender. 

 Many prestigious Golf Clubs do not have African-Americans as members, 
 let alone any members from other racial groups. In fact, at many of the 
 same tournaments the great Tiger Woods plays at, the only African-Americans
 you will see are in menial service-type jobs. It seems these blacks are good 
 enough to employ in the washrooms, but not have seated in the clubrooms.

 Sure these are private clubs and they are within the law to accept or not
 accept, whomever they want as members. But, is it any doubt that professional
 golf expects to draw hundreds of thousands of female and African-American
 viewers to the televised broadcasts of their tournaments? And to profit from
 their patronage? This goes without saying. That is what makes the stance 
 of organizations such as Augusta National so hypocritical. They bemoan 
 the pressure being applied by outside groups. How similar are their carefully
 worded denunciations to what the Southern Segregationists used to say about 
 "Yankee agitators from the North" back in the days of  Jim Crow.

 There is an ugly injustice here, and those good ole' boys just don't see it.

 So, Augusta National will go it alone without any corporate advertising in
 2003, because of the feared political discomfort that the N.C.O.W. was to
 cause sponsors of the tournament. Maybe their decision will backfire. Yes, 
 Augusta National is a well-heeled organization and can do without the corporate 
 sponsorships. But how eerie and strange will that silence be, the day of the 
 broadcast. 

 The silence of the entire outside world. -- Not a car ad, a beer ad, a candy
 ad, or anything. Just a too proud old organization, alone, and trapped in a 
 time warp of its own creation.
 

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