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...rules, although a few have since begun to admit blacks and can regain eligibility. The St. Louis Country Club in Ladue, Mo., ceded the 1992 Women's Amateur Championships, ostensibly because it is renovating its greens. The Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton, Ill., relinquished the 1993 Walker Cup. Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pa., took in a few blacks as junior members in recent months but withdrew from the 1993 P.G.A. championship because it could not guarantee that such members would move up to full voting status by then. The Merion Golf Club in nearby Ardmore concluded that...
...clubs' excuse is that the very essence of privacy is freedom of association. Most Americans accept that discrimination is wrong when it comes to work, school or government services but are queasy about social intrusions. And many all-white clubs do not see themselves as consciously discriminatory. Aronimink said it had not excluded blacks -- none had sought admission. New members are proposed by old members, who naturally choose relatives, friends and neighbors, reinforcing the circle of privilege. The web tightens if a club has a waiting list. Promptly admitting minority members would mean jumping them ahead of others who have...
...fellow pros have since learned that what Gary wants, Gary may get. At 26, Player is running out of goals: he won the British Open in 1959, the Masters in 1961, topped all pros in money winnings (with $64,540) last year. Last week at Philadelphia's suburban Aronimink Golf Club, Player passed another milepost: he became the first foreigner in 32 years to win the Professional Golfers Association championship...
Fighting the Army. The 171 pros who qualified for the 44th P.G.A. took one look at Aronimink's broad fairways and manicured greens, helpfully dampened by heavy showers, and pronounced the course "honest"-which is pro talk for "a cinch." But they reckoned without two handicaps: the hot, humid weather, and "Arnie's army"-the huge, unruly gallery that stampeded noisily around the course chasing everybody's favorite golfer, Arnold Palmer. "You can't think, can't concentrate," complained one pro. "It's damned upsetting to stand over a putt and hear feet pounding...
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