Augusta National Golf Club admits first female members

[Doomsday101]

Augusta National Golf Club has admitted its first female members, the private club announced Monday.

The decision to admit former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and business executive Darla Moore of Lake City, South Carolina, ends a longstanding policy excluding women as members of the exclusive Georgia club, which hosts the Masters.

Augusta's membership, which includes titans of industry and finance, has been male-only since its opening in 1932. The policy, which had become a lightning rod issue, had been upheld as recent as April when Billy Payne, chairman of Augusta National Golf Club and the Masters Tournament, said the issue was a private matter.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/2...lf-club-admits-first-women-members/?hpt=hp_c1

 

[YosemiteSam]

So they finally let a woman in and a black woman at that. Very good.

They also let Darla Moore in. I have no doubt that Darla was the one that facilitated making this happen. That is a strong and powerful woman. She is married to Richard Rainwater. My grandmother had babysat him a few times when he was very young.

 

[Doomsday101]

So they finally let a woman in and a black woman at that. Very good.

They also let Darla Moore in. I have no doubt that Darla was the one that facilitated making this happen. That is a strong and powerful woman. She is married to Richard Rainwater. My grandmother had babysat him a few times when he was very young.

The members at Augusta do thing on their own time frame. The more you try and push them into doing something the more they will resist. No doubt both of these women are strong and powerful women but I don't think any way shape or form was a Private club as this one was bullied into anything

 

[YosemiteSam]

The members at Augusta do thing on their own time frame. The more you try and push them into doing something the more they will resist. No doubt both of these women are strong and powerful women but I don't think any way shape or form was a Private club as this one was bullied into anything

Ha! :laugh2:

 

[burmafrd]

If the nitwits had left them alone this probably would have happened a few years ago.

But once the feminazi's started making noise the members dug in their heels.

 

[Doomsday101]

Ha! :laugh2:

It was only a matter of time but Augusta has been dealing with this protest for years even boycotted to the point they aired the Master commercial free for 2 years in a row and still came out ahead, not one single player refused to play. I have no issue with Augusta admitting in people they want it is after all a private club. Now does this men any womens only institution should be open to men? Private is private and as long as they don't get money from the tax payers they are not obligated to let anyone in.

 

[Doomsday101]

If the nitwits had left them alone this probably would have happened a few years ago.

But once the feminazi's started making noise the members dug in their heels.

I agree. Hootie Johnson was firm on that, they more they pushed him the more he refused to allow member. Even on the issue of Blacks being admitted and funny thing is he was very active in the civil rights movement in the 1960's.

Then he goes and invites the University of South Carolina women's golf team to play 18 holes with him at the hallowed home of the Masters.

"It was incredible,'' said Kristi Coggins, the team's coach. "From the minute we drove through the gate, we were treated like queens. Hootie Johnson was so gracious.''

Obviously, there is more to William Woodward Johnson than just his very public defense of Augusta's male-only membership.

His supporters describe him as a man of inclusion, going back to the turbulent days of the civil rights movement in South Carolina.

Johnson helped blacks get elected to the state legislature for the first time since the turn of the century. He ran a committee that desegregated the state's public colleges. His was one of the first major banks in the South to appoint a black to the board of directors.

"He had the reputation of being progressive,'' said I.S. Leevy Johnson, one of three blacks elected to the Legislature in 1970 with Hootie Johnson's backing.

His campaign to foster racial harmony spilled over to feminine causes. The father of four daughters, he appointed women to management positions at Bankers Trust, a company started by his father but guided to national prominence by the son.

Four years ago, Johnson brokered a deal in which South Carolina became the first major college to name its business school after a woman, New York investment banker Darla Moore.

Maybe that's why so many people were stunned at Johnson's defiant reaction to a letter from Martha Burk, chairwoman of the National Council of Women's Organizations.

http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/story?id=1443017

 

[rynochop]

I'll set the over/under at 10 on the number of times these two are ever there...not counting The Masters.

 

[WV Cowboy]

I don't see anything wrong with women having "Women Only" organizations and men having "Men Only" organizations.

I kind of think it is neat when women get together and meet only with other women, and men get together to meet only with other men.

Maybe I am too old fashioned but I don't have an issue with it at all.

 

[dez_for_prez]

Now does this men any womens only institution should be open to men?

I plan on applying to the Women's Only Gym closest to my place.

 

[DFWJC]

If they were going to do it, Condi Rice was a great choice to open the door on many levels.

 

[casmith07]

Took 'em long enough.

 

[Doomsday101]

Took 'em long enough.

Yes it did but as I said as a Private club it is their right to admit or not admit anyone they choose. I'm all for women being included at Augusta my only objection is those who try to force their will on a private club. I respect that there our women only clubs and orginazation and feel they should have that right without being pressured. In the end I think this would have happened sooner if not for Martha Burk.

 

[jnday]

I don't see anything wrong with women having "Women Only" organizations and men having "Men Only" organizations.

I kind of think it is neat when women get together and meet only with other women, and men get together to meet only with other men.

Maybe I am too old fashioned but I don't have an issue with it at all.

I agree. When a club is labeled "private" that means they should take only the members that fit their guidelines. I don't have any problems with restrictions on membership.

 

[WV Cowboy]

I don't see anything wrong with women having "Women Only" organizations and men having "Men Only" organizations.

I kind of think it is neat when women get together and meet only with other women, and men get together to meet only with other men.

Maybe I am too old fashioned but I don't have an issue with it at all.

I agree. When a club is labeled "private" that means they should take only the members that fit their guidelines. I don't have any problems with restrictions on membership.

And on the other hand, .. I have no issue with Augusta including women.

Condi is a great choice. She is so impressive.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

I agree. When a club is labeled "private" that means they should take only the members that fit their guidelines. I don't have any problems with restrictions on membership.

That and it's essentially a non-profit club. They are designed that way otherwise they lose their tax-exempt status. So all of the money that comes in from the Masters that ANGC gets to keep, goes back into the club and course.

My biggest issue with Martha Burke was that *she* wanted to gain membership which would benefit *her* and she posed it off that if *she* got membership at the club that it would somehow help empower women. It was also asinine to think that all of these big business and political deals were made at ANGC. And even if they were, she would not have been privy to them since she's an uninvited member.

I think a lot of this is that no woman that looked to be invited into the club as a member ever applied that had legitimate credentials to get into ANGC. I think that they were probably surprised that it would become an issue, but they didn't want to give Burke the satisfaction either. And when Moore and Rice showed genuine interest, they decided to let them in.





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[JBond]

Took 'em long enough.

Freedom of association is not to be undervalued.

Freedom of association is guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The relevant portion states, “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging . . . the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” Seems simple enough. We may assemble ourselves into whatever peaceful associations we choose, and the government is forbidden to interfere with those choices. But what does this really mean?

Note that the guarantee is in the form of a restriction on what government may do. The political philosophy of the authors of the Constitution and its Bill of Rights was that all individuals have fundamental human rights against which government is forbidden to trespass. Indeed, the most important function of any just government is to protect those rights for all individuals under its jurisdiction.

http://www.thefreemanonline.org/features/on-freedom-of-association/