What Country Club(s) wouldn’t allow Michael Jordan to become a member bc he is black in the late 80’s?
orzoff asked:
I remember that this happened in Suburban Chicago in the late 80’s early 90’s but I can’t remeber the name(s) of the Golf Country Club(s). They rejected his membership application bc he was black.
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I remember that this happened in Suburban Chicago in the late 80’s early 90’s but I can’t remeber the name(s) of the Golf Country Club(s). They rejected his membership application bc he was black.
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Filed under: Golf on February 28th, 2009
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I do think that it was Medina in Itasca, IL.
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They didn’t reject him because he was black, they simply rejected him.
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Ron Townsend was the first black to gain membership, in 1990. Jordan never applied to Augusta but likely would not have been admitted.
America’s most celebrated amateur golf fanatic, Mr. Michael Jordan, illustrates the erosion of prejudice by free markets. Rather than put his name on the waiting list at one of the venerable clubs in Chicago (a city in which only about a half-dozen African-Americans in total belong to clubs), he bought a $48,000 corporate membership at Wynstone, a new for-profit real estate development where the high price eliminates the waiting list.
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I live right down the street from Olympia Fields CC…That was one…I think another might be Butler National because the pga tour stopped playing there because of that rule, Butler doesn’t allow women either, but that’s ok in my book…Course is way too tough…