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Article: Candidates for USGA president belong to Augusta.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- November 9, 2002
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PHILADELPHIA _ If the controversy over the men-only membership policy at Augusta National drags on for more than a year, the U.S. Golf Association and its ruling executive committee could face some difficult choices.
Three of the executive committee's 15 members, including two vice presidents potentially in line to become the USGA's next president, are members of Augusta National.
Fred S. Ridley, a Tampa, Fla., lawyer and the 1975 U.S. Amateur champion, is the more senior of the two USGA vice presidents and the man regarded as most likely to step up to the presidency when Reed Mackenzie's term ends in early 2004. At the 2002 Masters in April, Ridley was ...