Olympics
From Staff and Wire Reports
The membership policies of the exclusive Augusta National Golf Club will not be an issue when the International Olympic Committee decides whether to include golf in the 1996 Atlanta Games, IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch said.
“I don’t know what the conditions are in this club,” Samaranch said, “but we cannot set conditions to be members of a club.”
Augusta National, home of the Masters championship, was all-white until September of 1990, when one black was admitted. The club still has only one black among its 300 members and never has held a women’s tournament.
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