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Perhaps because both names are connected with golf, the high-minded reformers who want to drag the Augusta National Golf Club into the 21st century seem to have mixed up Tiger Woods with Bagger Vance--the angelic black caddy in the eponymous film who uses supernatural powers to help a white golf pro get over the yips and straighten out his love life. Or perhaps they have confused the world's best golfer with the hulking black convict in The Green Mile, played so powerfully by Michael Clarke Duncan, who never gets a chance to use his supernatural powers...
...real fight is between those who believe the Augusta's rules against women are an ugly anachronism and the white-male golf hierarchy that stands behind those rules. The National Council of Women's Organizations sounded the first trumpet of the crusade, and it was quickly taken up by the New York Times, which published nearly three dozen articles on topics ranging from the possibility of protesters disrupting the Masters Tournament to the failure of tournament broadcaster cbs to take a stand on the issue. I think the Times went a step too far, however, when it published an editorial...
...reformers are wrong about Augusta. It's clear that the place is a bastion of Southern-fried phony gentility that badly needs reform. Augusta did not accept its first black member until 1990, after an outcry about the whites-only membership of many country clubs compelled the major pro-golf association to promise that no tournament would be played at courses that practice racial discrimination...
...such topflight pros as Phil Mickelson, Davis Love III, David Duval? None of them individually have the clout of Woods, but a protest by all of them would bring Augusta to its knees--and would let Tiger stop trying to be the Magic Negro and go back to playing golf...
...easily re-engineered into sports cars. To make its Crossfire, Chrysler modified a platform that its sister brand, Mercedes-Benz, is phasing out. Foreign automakers have rolled out profitable models partly because they spent decades investing in platforms that can flex: Audi's TT sits on a modified Golf platform; BMW's Z4 started out with a 3-Series...