Tuesday June 17th, 2025 11:57AM

Augusta membership battle heads to cyberspace

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The group pushing for female members at Augusta National took its battle into cyberspace Tuesday with a Web site that vilifies corporations whose heads belong to the golf club. <br> <br> The site -- www.augustadiscriminates.org -- officially was to go online Tuesday night to coincide with Martha Burk&#39;s appearance on HBO&#39;s ``Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> Burk, the head of the National Council of Women&#39;s Organizations, has pressed for the club to end its long-standing tradition of exclusively male membership. <br> <br> The Web site&#39;s main page -- headlined the ``Hall of Hypocrisy&#39;&#39; -- will display logos of corporation with ties to Augusta. Each link is to show of photo of the chairman or CEO, the company&#39;s diversity statement if it has one and the goods and services it provides. A headline proclaims that the company supports discrimination. <br> <br> A spokesman for Augusta National -- Glenn Greenspan -- says the site ``is simply not news.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> It&#39;s not the only Web site devoted to the controversy. <br> <br> A North Carolina man two weeks ago launched www.golfersforarealcause.org with two objectives -- to raise money for breast cancer research and to divert attention from Burk. <br> <br> Also, a Florida man built www.theburkstopshere.com as a collection of Web sites to protest Burk and her efforts to get Augusta National to admit a female member.
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