Women and the Masters, here we go again

Good idea. Then they can stop covering the World Series, Daytona 500, NCAA Championships or anything else that's important.

 

If media organizations choose to stop covering an event because of ANGC, they're doing it for themselves and not for their readers.

 

Can't avoid covering. However, participating in the "media lottery" and getting (and in most cases begging for) the privilege of playing Augusta is probably something that would be wise to end, if it was ever wise to begin.

 

Just checking, this is 2011, right?

 

There are plenty of things to rip Augusta for, but they aren't guilty here of anything other than employing an overzealous, poorly trained security guard. This clearly isn't club policy, considering 1. female reporters have done interviews in the locker room in the past without incident and 2. they'd never apologize for something sexist they actually meant to do, as Martha Burk can tell you.

Without Twitter to stir this thing up - and Liz Mullen of the Sports Business Journal appears to want a federal investigation as a starting point, with napalm strikes on the course as a followup - this would have been an unfortunate but relatively minor inconvenience. Sometimes it's better to wait before reacting to things.

 

And yet we have this thread.

I think Masters coverage should diminish and/or die because it's a relic of an outdated age. I didn't miss missing the event again this year.

 

aww, Augusta National apologized and promised it wouldn't happen again. Good for them. Does the apology come with a chance to ask Rory McIlroy a question, because if not, it's pretty worthless.

 

This

 

Yep, those crazy broads stirring shit up...all they had to do was sit nice and pretty and wait for the apology. What's the big deal? It was an accident! Could happen to ANYONE!

The fact there's still event security that doesn't know the freaking law is just incredible, even at Augusta.

Blech.

 

Given the talent pool most security companies draw from - and the fact we're talking Podunk, Georgia here, it doesn't surprise me this guy didn't know the law. We're talking shallow end of the pool here.