LPGA players sound off on Augusta flap

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[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Augusta National should admit women members when the LPGA agrees to admit men.

[DB]

That's what I was thinking...

[governsleastgovernsbest]

"Hootie Johnson has four daughters and surely he would like to see them having the same opportunity as boys," Inkster told Reuters."

If Hootie had sons, would Inkster want them to have the same opportunity as girls to attend Hillary's alma mater, Wellesley, which has a formal policy excluding men?

[lonestar]

ditto bump

[dwilli]

Now that a lady pro has qualified for a PGA event, if
she accepts and I hope she does, how long before some
guy wants to try the LPGA? It would be a golden goose
for the men that are barely eking out a living on the
mens tour.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Now that a lady pro has qualified for a PGA event,

Note that she qualified playing from the ladies' tees. How is that even possible?

I read in The NY Times that she is considering not playing in the Greater Hartford Open because she is afraid of what her real scores would be playing from the competition tees. My question is why was she allowed to qualify at all if she wasn't playing form the men's tees?

[captnorb]

Personally, the NOW troops and probably many pro women(snicker) golfers could join and use all the same facilities including locker rooms as the men. After all, these women probably shave their beards too.

[Teacher317]

Why is it OK for a black man to bully his way into Augusta
and it's not OK for a black woman to bully her way into Augusta?

That's an interesting way to phrase it...

[toddst]

Now that a lady pro has qualified for a PGA event, if she accepts and I hope she does, how long before some guy wants to try the LPGA? It would be a golden goose for the men that are barely eking out a living on the mens tour.

Excellent point. If there is no LPGA many women "pros" would cease to be competitive - unless they are given a "special handicap." Is that what they really want?

[tm61]

Where will the idiocy of political correctness end?
Here we go, racism/sexism card is the last fall back, catch all of the liberal agenda. this is all about property rights, which the liberals despise. Its their PRIVATE PROPERTY, you can do as you damn well please when it comes to who enters your land, let in who you like, not invite whomever you dont. End of discussion. No law (yet written) has been broken so all they can do is play on the minds of the guilty minded liberal weenies out there.

[dpa5923]

''I can't believe we're still fighting this stuff -- racism, gender equality free assembly, the first admendment or whatever,'' U.S. Open champion Juli Inkster said Wednesday from the Solheim Cup. ''But that's life, I guess. It's not going to change overnight, but hopefully, in the coming years, it will change.''

There, now I fixed it.

1st Admendment's a bitch, ain't it Juli?

[dwilli]

I read that her driving average is around 230 yards and
the 201st golfer on the PGA tour averages 258 off the tee.
Thats a tremendous disadvantage on a wide open golf course.
She can't reach some par fours in two much less the fives
from the championship tees.

[mountaineer]

After all, these women probably shave their beards too.

Can't pass up a good he-man stereotype, eh, norb? The women of the LPGA might disprove your generalizations, however. From left, Bauer, Gulbis, Alfredsson, Croce, Coch

[Freedom4US]

''I can't believe we're still fighting this stuff -- racism, gender equality or whatever,'' U.S. Open champion Juli Inkster said''

Fighting what "stuff"? The right to freedom of association? I can't believe people are really this stupid. The brainwashing of the american public is nearly complete. Critical thinking skills -- must be the first thing to go in any totalitarian society..

[irish_links]

...Augusta National should admit women members when the LPGA agrees to admit men....

You've hit the nail right on the head GBRR. Equality is a fine concept until it hits close to hearth and home.

As an aside, the comments by Helen Alfredsson and Laura Davies reminded me of some of the reasons that I watch the European Tour telecasts regularly but somehow always forget to set the VCR for the U.S. Tour. The European players are invariably thoughtful and well spoken, good sports to the end. And the Swedes, like Miss Alfredsson, Danes and French speak better English than our players, including the women.

Why is it that people from essentially socialist countries retain rock ribbed conservative values (freedom of association, the recognition of fundamental biological and emotional differences between men and women), while Americans invariably tilt toward the latest P.C. windmill? Help me on this, please.

[Texbob]

The Nation will approve co-ed toilets before they approve of this crap. How about letting boys into the girl scouts? Its about the same thing.

[Texbob]

They are typical feminist, that which belongs to women are women's, that which belongs to men are women's.

[Zon]

The first and only necessary cry for equality is that each person's individual rights are protected. The smallest minority is the individual. Protect the individual's rights and all larger than one-person minorities will be protected as will the majority be protected.

Group "rights" be they based on gender, age or race all attempt to violate individual rights. Groups do not have rights, only the individual has rights. A human being has rights, often called "individual rights". The human species as a group has no rights. Human "rights" are as specious as female rights, race rights, age rights.

The group rights ploy is a product of political correctness sacrificing the individual human being to the this group or that group. ...Sacrificing the individual human being to the ever-changing whims of politically correctness.

[elephantlips]

The assumption here is that the "black" player "bullied" his way into the club. From what has been revealed about Hooty's and the members methods, they chose to have the man.