Obama: It’s time for Augusta golf club to admit women members

[MADem]

124. Her name is Burk, not Burke.

It's very interesting to me that you got that wrong. http://www.marthaburk.org/

My "level of disdain" comes from a place of essential human decency. What I also find interesting is your desperate contortions to convince yourself that first, Augusta is some sort of self-sustaining money machine (take away the members and their dues, and the place goes straight to hell), and second, that you believe that behaving like neanderthals in this day and age is somehow acceptable under an umbrella of "tradition."

What you don't seem to understand is that the Augusta purses have grown specifically to keep 'em coming--you put the Green Jacket cart before the Big Money horse, and that's just not on. The purses for first prize have been well over a million for this entire 21st century and close to it before that--that's not a terribly "new" development. And those lucrative endorsements? They will grow less and less attractive as this issue gains traction--and it will.

They've got to do something at Augusta, and for now, they think throwing money at the problem will stop the bleeding--they are in an indefensible position, and other tournaments are able to offer huge purses (that grow larger by the year) without the stink of unnecessary, rigid, hateful discrimination (if you are indeed, as you indicated, a "gay man living in Augusta" you should know all about that unnecessary, rigid, hateful discrimination of which I speak).

If you think those "it's all about the money, money, money" golfers would eschew a big cash tourney for the "prestige" of the Green jacket and no cash prize, I have a bridge to sell you. It is the MONEY that brings them to that place. If the FEDEX Cup was being played at the same time as the Master's, Augusta's links would be populated by fourth tier duffers who hadn't a hope in hell of qualifying in any other circumstance.

I hope you appreciate that, as I do not know you and have never interacted with you before this thread, I must take anything you have to say about this issue with a huge grain of salt. I don't find your arguments even remotely credible and I find your defenses of discriminatory conduct weak and unsubstantiated.