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Article: RIGHTS: AUGUSTA NATIONAL'S REFUSAL TO ADMIT WOMEN MATTERS
- Article from:
- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- April 5, 2003
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NEW YORK, (Apr. 2) IPS\WOMENSENEWS -- For a month, I wrestled
with the question: Why does Augusta National matter to women? I
should know because I work in the golf industry. I write about golf
and play it. I love the game's colorful history. I know many of the
world's top players.
But for weeks, golf and the controversy at Augusta National have
seemed pretty insignificant with a war raging in the Middle East.
How could I write about women not being invited to join Augusta
National Golf Club when women in Iraq are fleeing for their lives
and women in Afghanistan have only recently been allowed to go back
to school? How could I pretend that membership at a beautiful golf ...