Politically incorrect golf: Top 10

Seamus Rotherick
By Seamus Rotherick May 24, 2013 12:07
  1. 1. Hall Thompson, 1990. ‘We don’t discriminate in every other area except the blacks’

Hall Thompson developed and established the Shoal Creek Golf and Country Club in Alabama in 1977 as an invitation-only private golf club, which quickly became one of the leading golf clubs in the USA.

In 1990, with the club about to host the PGA Championship, he was asked about admission policies, and Thompson stated that the club allowed Jews and women to become members.

‘We don’t discriminate in every other area except the blacks,’ he said.

Sponsors pulled out, broadcasters lost millions and the golf club announced that July that it would accept non-whites as members.

As Sports Illustrated wrote later that year: ‘Thompson uttered the unpardonable words that could make him Alabama’s second-most-effective catalyst for change in race relations [after Rosa Parks]’.

 

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Seamus Rotherick
By Seamus Rotherick May 24, 2013 12:07
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  1. Frank Clapp May 30, 13:28

    Whatever happend to “sticks & stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me. Society far too preciuos and sensitive and all the Press are doing is stirring up because they have no real stories of interest or want to help lawyers earn litigation fees!!!

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  2. ABA May 29, 22:22

    Business is slowing down right now….So, who you gonna call?? However, the earliest known reference recording a competition for women golfers dates from the 9th of January, 1811…..

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  3. ABA May 29, 22:12

    … Ah! 2013… and the business is slowing down right now,hey?! So…Who you gonna call? ….

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  4. Susan Moore May 24, 14:15

    R and A’s Peter Dawson on all-male membership ‘it’s hardly life threatening is it’! Still reeling over that one.

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  5. Golf Club Management (@GCM_mag) May 24, 12:31

    Homophobia, sexism and racism in golfing – Top 10 politically incorrect moments in golf http://t.co/CutOHJTQzT are we missing any?

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