Augusta National Admits First Two Female Members
The 80 year sausagefest is over. Augusta National has extended invitations to women for the first time in its history, and both women have accepted. Who are the lucky ladies? Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and South Carolina financier Darla Moore.
Augusta’s inclusion of female members marks an historic day for the club, and will likely put to rest much of the criticism it has received in the past. Many remember that back in 2002 then chairman of Augusta National, Hootie Johnson, refuted criticism and pressure for the club to admit women by saying that Augusta might one day admit female members, “but not at the point of a bayonet.” That comment was naturally met with a tidal wave of PMS induced fury from scorned women across the country.
But the days of Augusta National pissing off women are over, that is until someone makes a racist/sexist joke right when Condi Rice is standing behind him. Awkward.
Current Augusta National chairman Billy Payne said of the inclusion of Rice and Moore, “This is a joyous occasion. It will be a proud moment when we present Condoleezza and Darla their green jackets when the club opens this fall.” Payne has been chairman of the club since 2006, when Hootie Johnson retired.
According to an anonymous source who spoke with ESPN, Moore and Rice first came under consideration for membership about five years ago. The two were likely unaware, at least for some time, as many prospective members of Augusta National aren’t often aware of their consideration.
Most would agree that in terms of accomplishment, both Rice and Moore are two very deserving candidates. Condoleezza Rice was the national security advisor and then Secretary of State under George W. Bush. She was also the first black woman to be a Stanford provost in 1993. Currently she is a professor of political economy at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, which sources tell TFM News is a “really fucking good school.”
Darla Moore, meanwhile, is an accomplished financier in South Carolina.
From ESPN:
Moore, 58, first rose to prominence in the 1980s with Chemical Bank, where she became the highest-paid woman in the banking industry. She is vice president of Rainwater Inc., a private investment company founded by her husband, Richard Rainwater. She was the first woman to be profiled on the cover of Fortune Magazine, and she made a $25 million contribution to her alma mater, South Carolina, which renamed its business school after her.
Darla Moore and former club chairman Hootie Johnson are actually friends, both being from South Carolina and the financial community of the region. According to ESPN she and Johnson worked on South Carolina’s $300 million capital campaign in the late 1990s. Moore was actually mentioned as a candidate for membership in 2002, during the height of the controversy surrounding the club’s all male membership.
So an era is over, and women are now eligible to become members of Augusta National. While many people believe the new members won’t change the club dynamic, one has to wonder if that’s really true. Surely members will now think twice before posting nudey pics of their secretaries on the locker room board. Sex Tape Tuesday? Forget it. That all may be fine, but I swear to God if cart girls start mouthing off after a friendly ass slap I am just going to lose it. Sure I’m not a member and none of these made up things affect me in the slightest, but TRADITION! Rabble rabble rabble.
- [via ESPN]
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Women in golf? Hah!
12 years ago at 12:57 pmNot to sure what to think or feel about this story
12 years ago at 12:57 pmWomen. Can’t live with em, can’t shoot em.
12 years ago at 12:58 pm^And they can’t pee standing up…
12 years ago at 2:19 pmBut we can….you know where.
12 years ago at 2:29 pm^^^ oh yes they can, and what a sight it is.
12 years ago at 3:10 pmThat’s bullshit.
12 years ago at 1:00 pmIn 50 years, all we’ll have is fantasy football and urinals.
12 years ago at 6:02 pmThat’s just unacceptable. I shall build the greatest golf course this country’s ever seen, and women will NOT be allowed.
12 years ago at 8:03 pmwhere the f*** will their locker room be located? probably out somewhere near the kitchen maybe?
12 years ago at 1:05 pmcondoleezza would probably be just fine in the mens locker room…
12 years ago at 1:32 pm^Or the help quarters
12 years ago at 5:33 pmWell that’s just shit and I know a thing or two about shit.
12 years ago at 1:07 pmhaha
12 years ago at 8:55 pm^^ You get me every time
12 years ago at 9:40 pmCondolangus Riiiice?
12 years ago at 1:12 pm*Cunnilingus Rice. (Previous comment moderated?)
12 years ago at 2:59 pm^Probably because I said, M.ex.i.can, as in, “Sounds like a M.e.x.ica.n dish,” as per the reference you were attempting to make.
12 years ago at 3:00 pmKumdazzlin Ricer?
12 years ago at 3:27 pmCuntualzer Rice
12 years ago at 3:29 pmSorry Oprah, haven’t seen the episode at hand since 8th grade so I was simply going on memory from what it sounded like. I will make sure to double check all references made on totalfratmove in the future. And yes, you are still indeed, a dyke.
12 years ago at 11:03 pmIt’s AnchorMAN, not AnchorLADY, and that is a scientific fact!
12 years ago at 1:19 pmDid you hear that, bears? Now you’re putting the whole club at jeopardy!
12 years ago at 1:38 pmthey let black women play golf?
12 years ago at 1:20 pmshe’d probably kick your butt. heard she has a 15-16 handicap which isn’t too bad. she’s already a member of four clubs, stanford, san francisco, shoal creek, and country club of birmingham.
12 years ago at 1:56 pmWhen did a 15-16 handicap become “not too bad” especially for a member of a private club much less four?
12 years ago at 2:12 pm^^You know way too much about this topic
12 years ago at 2:24 pm^
12 years ago at 2:37 pmgiven someone who’s f**ckin’ been directing our nation’s security interests, served as secretary of state, and ran stanford univeristy – i’d think it not too bad considering how much time she probably had for golf in between all that time. so what has anyone here done in the meanwhile while she was defending our nation? nuff said.
12 years ago at 4:33 pm^ My guess is you have been fapping to pics of Condi on the net. As for the rest of us, we are still in college.
Additionally, you don’t have to censor yourself. They only moderate racially ‘insensitive’ comments.
12 years ago at 4:50 pmrollinghills, you did not condition your statement that 15-16 was “not too bad” for her job. You said that she could probably “kick your butt” with a 15-16 handicap. I stand by my earlier comment. It may be “not too bad” for her position/life but 15-16 ain’t good for someone who’s a member of 4 private clubs. And she hasn’t been in politics for a while and she certainly doesn’t “run Stanford”. She was a provost and now teaches. The end.
12 years ago at 5:04 pmkay we just have different opinions. i think a 60-year old woman carrying a 15 handicap is not too bad overall. but yes, i could preface it better – not sure why she’s a member of four clubs anyway – incl two in ‘bama and one in conn? but i digress.
12 years ago at 6:47 pmas provost in the 90s, she did run stanford. provost is the head of academics and budget at stanford. she was there when i was there.
12 years ago at 6:50 pm^That’s pretty sick, dude…
12 years ago at 8:29 pmAbsolute disgrace. Liberal PC bullshit continues to run amok.
12 years ago at 1:31 pm^
12 years ago at 1:36 pmI hate personal computer bullshit. My laptop crashed on me the other day.
12 years ago at 1:53 pm^
12 years ago at 2:31 pmliberal pledge class?
12 years ago at 2:40 pmLiberal penis cock?
12 years ago at 3:22 pm