Quote Originally Posted by smilingcat View Post
And one thing people dance around is the race issue. It's STILL AROUND whether you like it or not. Example: Wasn't Augusta golf club or whatever its official name. didn't they have a bit of problem with Tiger Woods playing there because he IS PART BLACK and part Asian? I don't think they allow "colored" people into their "all white boys club".

Wrong.

There was a legal fight over their exclusion of WOMEN from their men's club and the PGA's exclusion of women. These are actually (in my mind) two separate issues and muddling them together did absolutely no good for her case.

Right, wrong, or indifferent on the subject of exclusion of women (which really came down to a "why can't women have their cake and eat it too" argument by having a pro level LPGA AND be allowed to participate in the pro level PGA, which is probably primarily why she lost); the Augusta National, to the best of my knowledge, never attempted to exclude Tiger (and I lived in Ga).

I'm sure some people got their panties in a wad about it because there are still racist people out there, but there was not an attempt at exclusion by the golf club itself.