We urge you to review your policies and practices in this regard, and open your membership to women now, so that this is not an issue when the tournament is staged next year.
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Dr. Martha Burk, Chairwoman of the National Council of Women's Organizations, to the Augusta National Golf Club, home of the Professional Golf Association (PGA) Masters Tournament (June 12, 2002)
Augusta National Golf Club is a distinctly private club and, as such, cannot talk about its membership and practices with those outside the organization. I have found your letter's several references to discrimination, allusions to the sponsors and your setting of deadlines to be both offensive and coercive. I hope you will understand why any further communication between us would not be productive.
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Augusta National Golf Club Chairman Hootie Johnson (July 9, 2002)
The Masters, in my mind, is not tied at the hip to this club. An event of this profile could be held somewhere else.
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Martha Burk (July 10, 2002)
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U.S. Rep. Amory Houghton, Republican - New York
Kenneth Chenault, CEO of American Express
Lloyd Ward, CEO of the U.S. Olympic Committee
Sam Nunn, former U.S. Senator, Coca-Cola board member
Sanford Weill, CEO of Citigroup
William Harrison, CEO of JP Morgan Chase
Christopher Galvin, CEO of Motorola
Lou Gerstner, chairman of IBM
Ray Robinson, president of AT&T's Southern Region
Riley Bechtel, CEO of the Bechtel Group
Arthur Ryan, CEO of Prudential Financial
James Hance, vice chairman of Bank of America
Joe Ford, chairman of Alltel
Scott Ford, CEO of Alltel
Members of the Augusta National Golf Club (September 29, 2002)
You have corporate codes of conduct against discrimination, and in some cases against underwriting or contributing to organizations that discriminate.
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Martha Burk, asking Augusta National members to reconcile their corporate and personal actions (September 20, 2002)
~ A ~ A.T. Cross, Acquavella, Advocat, Allied Bank of Georgia, Alltel, American Cyanamid, American Express, ARCO International Oil, Arkansas Best, Arnold Palmer Golf, AT&T, Atlanta Arts Alliance, Atlantic Richfield, Augusta Cab,
~ B ~ Bank of America, Bank One, Bassett Furniture, Baxter Travenol Labs, Bechtel, Belo, Berkshire Hathaway, Bessemer Trust, Birmingham Steel, Blanchard & Calhoun, Boardman Petroleum, BP Amoco, Bridston, Bundy,
~ C ~ Capital Cities/ABC, Castle Pines Golf Club, Caterpillar, CBS, Centerre Trust, Champion, Chase Manhattan Bank, Chevron Texaco, Churchill Downs, Citicorp, Club Car, Coca-Cola, ; Coil Coaters of America, Conoco, Continental Group, Coors Brewing, Corning, Cousins Properties, Cox Communications, CSX,
~ D ~ Dan River, Davis Cabinet, Detroit Lions, DuPont, Dynergy,
~ E ~ Earle M. Jorgensen Holding, Eckerd Drugs, Emcore, Emerson Electric, ExxonMobil,
~ F ~ Fleet Financial Group, Fluor, Foley & Lardner, Ford Motor, Fountainhead Water, Fourjay, Franklin Resources,
~ G ~ Gary Concrete Products, Gates Capital Management , GD Searle, General Electric, Georgia Senate, Global SantaFe, Goldman Sachs,
~ H ~ H.J. Heinz, Harison-Kerzic, Harper Pennington & Shaw, Honeywell, Hormel Foods, Hospital Corp., Hull, Towill, Norman, Barrett & Salley,
~ I ~ IBM, InfoUSA, Ingram Entertainment, Inman Mills, Ivy Foundation For Biomedical Research,
~ J ~ J.P. Stevens, J.C. Penney, J.P. Morgan Chase, J.R. Butler and Co., Jewel Co.'s,
~K ~ Knight-Ridder, Koppers, Kuhlke Construction,
~ L ~ Linde Ag, Lone Star Industries, Louisiana Land and Exploration , Lucent, Lyle Anderson Co.,
~ M ~ Manufacturers Hanover, McKinsey and Co., Mesa Water, Milliken & Co., Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minnesota North Stars , Minnesota Vikings, Mississippi Valley Bancshares, Morgan Stanley, Morgan Stanley Canada, Morris Communications, Moses Contracting, Motorola Inc., Multimedia Inc.,
~ N ~ National Intergroup, Nationsbank, New York Mets , Nexen, Norfolk Southern,
~ O ~ Orthopaedic Associates, Otis Elevator, Owens-Corning, Owens-Illinois, Oxford Industries,
~ P ~ Paccar, Paine Webber, Penske Group, PNC Bank, Premiere Technologies, Prudential Financial,
~ R ~ River City Augusta, Riviana Foods, Rockwell International, Rocky Mountain BankCard System ,
~ S ~ Santa Fe Southern Pacific , Sara Lee, SBC Communications, Scient, Seaboard Coast Line Industries , Sears, Seaward Management, Spartan Communications, Spatial Sites, Stephens Group, Stillman Maynard & Co., Synovus Financial,
~T ~ Textron , The Blackstone Group, The Hamilton Companies, The Hillman Company, The Howerdd Group, The Knox Foundation, The Pinnacle Club, The Tubman Home, Thompson Tractor, ToolWorks, Travelers, Troutman Sanders LLP, TRW, TSW Investment Co., TX Commerce Bancshares ,
~ U ~ U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Olympic Committee, U.S. Secretary of Defense (former), U.S. Secretary of State (former), U.S. Secretary of Treasury (former), U.S. Senate (former), U.S. Steel Corporation, Union Carbide, United Airlines, University of Arkansas, University of Minnesota ,
~ V ~ Vestaur Securities, VF Corp., Vulcan Materials,
~ W ~ Wallace-Reader's Digest Funds, Weiss Peck & Greer, Wells Fargo,
~ Y ~ Yates Insurance Agency 63
Companies and Offices of Members of the Augusta National Golf Club (September 27, 2002)
It could have been handled quietly. Now, we need to do something. I need to do something just to get my daughter off my back.
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Anonymous club member (September 29, 2002)
Women should be admitted at Augusta National.
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Tiger Woods (September 24, 2002)
I agree with what the National's doing. It's been like that forever, no women members. I'm a women's libber, but it's a man's thing over there.
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Lynn Smith, manager of an Augusta restaurant and divorced mother of two (October 6, 2002)
Doesn't he have a wife? What does his wife think about all this?
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Unidentified woman, referring to Hootie Johnson (October 6, 2002)
The issue you raise is an issue for the club, and it should be properly addressed to the club directly.
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Christopher B. Galvin, chairman and chief executive of Motorola, responding to Martha Burk (October 8, 2002)
Galvin might wish that he'd thought this through a little more. I think he's going to have to reconsider his position.
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Martha Burk, Chairwoman of the National Council of Women's Organizations (October 8, 2002). Motorola received an award this month from the Business Women's Network for its commitment to women.
Martha forgot her actions reflect directly on her brand.
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Sergio Zyman, marketing consultant and former Coca-Cola executive, referring to Martha Stewart's public relations problems and a stock loss of two-thirds (October 8, 2002)
As far as I know, there's going to be a tournament at Augusta, the Masters, and it's going to be on CBS television, and our players are going to go play.
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Tim Finchem, PGA Commissioner (October 30, 2002). Finchem said there were no plans to change its connection with the Masters or Augusta National.
My reaction is that Tim Finchem's first loyalties are to Augusta and to its practice of discrimination, not to the Tour's own policies against discrimination. He's allowing the Masters to benefit from the PGA Tour while Augusta practices discrimination. I don't understand how he justifies this.
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Martha Burk (October 30, 2002). It is against the PGA Tour's policy to hold tournaments at golf clubs with exclusionary memberships.
If we discriminate, do the Girl Scouts discriminate? Do the Boy Scouts discriminate? Single gender organizations are good, and part of the fabric of America.
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Hootie Johnson (November 12, 2002)
They're not the Boy Scouts. That's a silly argument. They're a club whose members are CEO's of some of the biggest corporations in America. Is it legal what they're doing? Probably. Is it right? No.
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Martha Burk (November 12, 2002)
CBS Sports will proceed with showing the [Masters] tournament in April, as planned.
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Leslie Anne Wade, CBS spokeswoman (November 13, 2002)
CBS stays on board and the PGA Tour shrugs without the same concern it showed back at Shoal Creek when racial intolerance was addressed.
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Bernie Lincicome, Rocky Mountain News, Denver (November 16, 2002)
The PGA Tour would do well to distance itself from this repressive and archaic organization and to pick a different site for the Masters.
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Ursula H. Weeks, Shaker Heights, Ohio (November 12, 2002)
I'm sure that most women, with few exceptions, couldn't care less.
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John Haggerty, Woodland Hills, California (November 12, 2002)
Augusta has the right to discriminate, and opponents of gender discrimination have the right, if not the moral duty, not to associate with any company, including a commercial broadcaster, that abets in this discrimination.
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David R. Dow, University of Houston law professor (November 12, 2002)
The NAACP believes that the athletes who play at discriminatory golf clubs endorse wrongful exclusion by their presence. Businesses that sponsor memberships and advertisers and broadcasters of club events subsidize and condone discrimination.
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Julian Bond, chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (November 19, 2002)
Augusta National should admit women as members. It is Augusta's right as a private organization not to admit women. But it's not the right thing to do.
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Ty Votaw, commissioner of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (November 20, 2002)
It's a pretty big deal, because it increases the pressure on the PGA. Tim Finchem is trying to say there is nothing he can do, that he can't control Augusta National and the Masters. He may not have a vote at the club, but if the PGA Tour withdrew its recognition of the Masters, it would have significant impact. It would be saying to Augusta National, "What you're doing is wrong." Tim Finchem has a big hammer. He is just not willing to use it.
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Martha Burk (November 20, 2002)
Hootie keeps writing that there has not been a single case of protest in the membership. And he absolutely believes this will all go away. It will not go away and it should not.
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Thomas H. Wyman, former chief executive of CBS and 25-year member of the Augusta National Golf Club, who resigned on November 27 (December 3, 2002). Mr. Wyman stated that the inclusion of women at Augusta National is no different from the inclusion of the first black member in 1990.
Avoiding a potential controversy in his Senate confirmation hearings, Snow resigned Monday from the Augusta National golf club in Georgia. The club, which hosts golf's premier tournament, the Masters, is under fire for not admitting women.
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Associated Press on John W. Snow's nomination for Treasury Secretary (December 9, 2002). Snow was a member as head of CSX, a railroad and transportation conglomerate.
I'm not aware that that presents any disqualification.
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Ari Fleischer, White House spokesman, discussing Snow's membership in the all-male Augusta National Club (December 9, 2002).
She has been associated with me in three golf courses. I want her views and also her personal impressions in regard to the way the work is being carried out. I do not know of any man who has sounder ideas.
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Alister MacKenzie, Scottish architect and designer of the Augusta National golf course for Bobby Jones (1931). MacKenzie sent female golfer Marion Hollins to Augusta for a site inspection, over the objections of Augusta National chairman Clifford Roberts.
National Council of Women's Organizations
Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
Unidentified man from Maine supporting Augusta National
Women Against Martha Burk
American White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan 150
Organizations requesting demonstration permits for the next Masters (as of February 28, 2003)
This equal rights stuff has gotten out of hand.
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Joseph J. Harper of Cordele, Georgia, Imperial Wizard of the American White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (February 28, 2003)
It is not a surprise that the KKK supports Augusta National Golf Club, since the club embraces and flaunts discrimination. It must expect support of a like-minded group.
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Martha Burk (February 28, 2003)
They say if you want a chance to stay here, if you want to graduate, you don't tell. You just deal with it.
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Sharon Fullilove, explaining why most women at the Air Force Academy choose not to report sexual attacks (March 14, 2003). Fullilove left the Academy in 1999 after being raped by a fellow cadet. The Academy reports 56 cases of rape or other sexual assault in the last 10 years, and no cases in the first 20 years of women's admissions, which started in 1976. One man has been acquitted by court-martial and eight men have been expelled since 1996.
LCWB
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An acronym commemorating the last Air Force Academy graduating class with men only (March 14, 2003). According to Air Force Colonel Michaela Shafer, the initials are worn by dozens of Academy staff, some ranking as high as colonel.
Tough. Deal with it.
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The response by men holding an Air Force Academy football rally sign saying "LCWB" to complaints by Colonel Shafer (March 14, 2003)
This place is a boys' club, and for women, no matter how hard you work, how hard you try, it's never good enough.
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Jessica Brakey, who was dismissed from the Academy after reporting her rape (March 14, 2003). Her accused assailant was not punished.
Hootie has won because they are playing the tournament. Golf triumphs over politics. And, Hootie has tapped into something in the male culture. What we've discovered is that he's not alone in this.
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Mitchell Moss, director of the New York University Research Center (April 14, 2003)
She'll be able to go to these members who lead large companies with a lot of women consumers and say: "Hootie says you're O.K. with this. Is that where you stand?
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Bob Sommer, public-relations executive, on Martha Burk's future strategy (April 14, 2003)
Maybe discrimination goes better with a Coke. I just want everyone to know where your dollars are going when you say, "I'll have a Coke."
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Martha Burk (April 12, 2003). Want another look at the sponsor and member lists?
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