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Article: Augusta National, women's group on course for a showdown.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- October 12, 2002
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Byline: Joe Logan
Six months after it first cropped up in the headlines, the very public and messy battle over whether Augusta National Golf Club will admit the first female member in its 70-year history rages on.
And it's not getting boring.
Ask the principals involved, for example, if the exclusive club in Georgia will have a woman member by, say, April, when its celebrated tournament, the Masters, rolls around again, and you get different answers.
"Yes, it will," Martha Burk, chairwoman of the National Council of Women's Organizations and the woman leading the charge for change at Augusta National, said last week.
Burk, ...