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Augusta National Golf Club has stirred up a lot of controversy recently. This beautiful private golf course, which was founded in 1932 in Augusta, Georgia, has become a high profile topic in the golf world because of one policy that the club has maintained since opening. ... Women are no longer accepting a secondary role in society and Augusta National Golf Club is a great example of that. ... On November 30, 2002, the Associated Press released the results of a poll on the Augusta National Golf Club’s membership policy. ... When asked which perspective came closer to their own views, forty-six percent of the respondents said Augusta National has a right to have an all-male membership. ...
The controversy obviously has both sides clamoring back and forth trying to prove their own side. ... Augusta reserves the right to maintain its own membership practices under constitutional right. In order for Augusta to be discriminative against women under gender discrimination laws it would have to be a for profit organization or a place of public accommodation (Michaux). ... Someone bought the land, made a golf course and adopted rules that fit a vision that they had created. That vision has been the way Augusta National fit into golf and the community for 70 years.
Approximate Word count = 997
Approximate Pages = 4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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