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...recent episodes, one in professional golf and one in women's college basketball, demonstrate the remarkable inroads made into sports by liberal compassion, the only virtue acknowledged in our society today. The episodes bode ill for the magnificence of sports...
First, let us travel to America's finest country clubs and a courtroom in Eugene, Oregon. Casey Martin is a young professional golfer on the Nike Tour, the professional Golf Association's (PGA) equivalent of the minor leagues. Martin also has a rare circulatory disorder that makes it difficult for him to walk long distances. Now, that presents a problem, since tournament golf courses usually top 7,000 yards. Martin can play a round of golf, however, if he rides in a golf cart, a practice strictly prohibited by the PGA. Martin decided that the PGA needed to show...
...last month. Martin claimed that the PGA had to provide him a "reasonable accommodation" under the ADA, which is to say, it had to give him access to a cart during tournaments. The PGA claimed that this would undermine competition, since walking is an integral and challenging component of golf. To which Martin responded, look at some of the fat, lethargic members of the PGA and then tell me that walking matters in golf. To which the PGA responded, visit the first-aid trailers in July and August and count the numbers of golfers regularly treated for heat exhaustion...
...come to Arizona for spring training if you want, or for the golf, or for sunsets the color of umbrella cocktails. But the best show isn't listed in any travel brochures...
AWARDED. CASEY MARTIN, 25, disabled pro golfer; the right to use a golf cart during tourney play; in Eugene, Ore. Golfers argued that their strolls between holes made golf an endurance sport and that Martin's use of a cart, compensation for a circulatory disorder, was an unfair advantage. Martin is the first professional athlete to sue successfully under the Americans with Disabilities...