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August 2 - August 8, 2002

Even a Little Growl From Tiger Would Be Enough

By Ethen Lieser
AsianWeek Staff Writer

No doubt about it, Tiger, you are the greatest golfer in the world. But when you were confronted with questions about women’s membership issues at Augusta National, you froze like a popsicle. The answers that spurted from your mouth were redundant, vague, sputtered and idled like a ’79 Bonneville.

It all started a couple weeks ago when a national women’s group demanded female members by next year’s Master’s tournament. Augusta officials insisted that it doesn’t have exclusionary membership policies, but how do you account for not having an African American member until 1990? And no female members in 70 years?

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