[TomB]

Now you are nitpicking. I previously stated that women could play the course, but I have made it crystal clear that when I say that the membership don't want women at Augusta, I mean as members, in the locker rooms and such.

Groan!!!

Now I never said anything about prohibiting women from playing.

You made the statement that there was a RULE stating that women could not be members. I pointed out that there was no such rule. The club is by invitation only, and no women have made it through the mambership process.

[Orual]

Double groan and triple sigh.

My #66 to you was in reply to this from you:

In #62 you quoted this from me:

Written rule or no, the evidence that they don't want women in Augusta is clear and convincing.

You replied:

You seem to be getting away from your original statement:

You then quoted the "orginal statement" from me:

There is a rule that prohibits women as members, but they can play the course.

I said you were nitpicking because it appeared you were trying to find a contradiction between my first quoted statement above and my second one. Since I did not specifically say they don't want women as members in the first statement, you implied that it was a deviation from the statement that they could play the course. My reply had nothing to do with what you may or may not have said about women being prohibited from play.

It's been fun. We'll leave it up to Augusta now.