They admitted two women. Was the other one her girlfriend?
Roger.
Excellent! Good for Condi!
done specifically to drive Limbaugh nuts
Condoleezza Rice, Colleen Curran and Condi's now famous golf ball.
On the 14th hole of the round at Warren Golf Course, Colleen was standing just off the tee of the par-three, 149-yard hole when one of the others in the threesome got off a nice shot that glided down the fairway, hit turf, bounced a few times, rolled a little more ... and went straight into the cup, for a hole-in-one - an oc-currence most golfers never see in a lifetime.
They jumped up and down. They hugged. OK, now you've got one tremendously fun day, don't you? Hang on - we haven't even gotten to the punch line yet. Colleen's golfing partner who hit the ace, the very first one of her life, was ... Condoleezza Rice, perhaps best known to the world (OK, at least before this) as United States Secretary of State in the George W. Bush White House. "It was all just unbelievable!" says Colleen.
Yes, scratch "just a good day."
Colleen Curran had a day of her life ... and she hadn't even gotten to the darned football game yet.
Rice - or "Dr. Rice," as she is known in education circles - has her master's degree from Notre Dame, and was on campus for a speaking engagement. She is such a voracious weekend golfer ("She has a passion for athletics, some-thing I hadn't known," says Colleen, "It's from her dad."); Rice asked if she could squeeze in a quick round while there. That's how Colleen got in-volved.
Sept of 2011 - hole in one for Condi.
Yip, yip, yippee, yahoo. Whoop-de-friggin-doo.
On a related note, the good news is she’s STILL not Willard’s running mate.
That’s wonderful!
I only hope that Condi made the cup on her talent, not as a “diversity” two-fer!
They can afford to build a new locker room. But there may be unspoken objections, to be exposed by the impossibility of obtaining the permits necessary to start the work!
Political differences aside, I find her to be a likeable lady, who’d be welcome on my golf course any time.
The inside story on this is hilarious. For years, despite pulling countless strings and offering huge sums of money, the Augusta National Golf Club refused to admit any of the Sulzberger family, who own the New York Times.
They did so because the Sulzbergers, despite their money and power, are course, uncultured, and ungentlemanly scoundrels.
So the Sulzbergers declared war on the Augusta National Golf Club and set out to ruin them in any way they could. Because they were a private club, they were immune from most Civil Rights attacks, finally agreeing to admit blacks in 1990, most likely because it was obvious that Tiger Woods was going to be a world class golfer, who had won the Junior World Championships six times, including four consecutive wins from 1988 to 1991.
But Augusta still didn’t admit women, and the Sulzbergers have railed against them, to the general befuddlement of New Yorkers, on their editorial pages some times on a weekly basis for months on end over this.
Admitting Rice and Darla Moore must be like eating gall and wormwood to the Sulzbergers.
“In 1991, Darla Moore married Richard Rainwater. She was named president of Rainwater, Inc, in 1993. Fortune Magazine named Moore one of the 50 Most Powerful Women In Business in 1998 and 1999.
“Moore is credited with increasing the Rainwater family fortune. Mr. Rainwater were partners in the Texas Rangers baseball team with then Texas Governor George W. Bush.
“Her family are the sixth generation on their South Carolina plantation, thus very old upper-crust southern aristocracy. Several in her family fought on the side of the Confederacy.”
So much for making a joke in the club house without getting sued for sexual harassment/hate crime against women...
I’m fine with this. It’s their club. They did it their way on their timetable. I’ve always been more amused than angered at the protests, anyway, once I thought them over. I mean, rich women can now join rich men on the membership rolls of the poshest, stuffiest golf club in the land. The glass ceiling has broken! Huzzah!