It’s hard to believe that the bitter controversy over the Augusta National Golf Club’s once all-male membership started about 15 years ago with a seemingly innocent letter from Martha Burk, chair of the National Council of Women’s Organizations. Back then, no one in Augusta knew of Martha Burk, and few had ever heard of the NCWO. It wasn’t even the National Organization of Women (NOW), the more well-known and highly vocal feminist group based in Washington, D.C. So, why worry? For most Augustans, the NCWO was nothing more than an annoying gnat. It was just some “extremist group” that wrote a letter to the most prestigious golf club in the country, pretending it had a lot of weight to throw around. In the very first sentence of Burk’s now infamous June 12, 2002, letter to Hootie Johnson, then-chairman of the Augusta National who passed away in 2017, Burk simply stated her case, by first introducing the NCWO as “the nation’s oldest and largest coalition of women’s groups.” “Our member groups are very concerned that the nation’s premier golf event, the Masters, is hosted by a club that discriminates against women by excluding them from membership,” Burk continued in her letter… Read full this story
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