Women’s Amateur Masters 2019 Martha Burk donned a bulletproof vest and marched through a muddy field past a mass of male protesters who were hurling rocks, honking horns and hollering for “Hootie” to halt the march of history and keep women out of the Masters and the golf world…
Can you tell me how you started your journalism career and how you started writing for the AP? Well, to begin I went to Graduate school at the University of Oklahoma. Graduate shool Ok. I started working nights at the local newspaper the Norman Transcript. Soon after, I…
The Influence of Martha Burk on Augusta National Martha Burk is an influential women’s rights activist that is widely known for the disagreement beginning in 2002 with William “Hootie” Johnson, then chairman of Augusta National Golf Club, over admission of female members to Augusta National. Burk contended that hosting the Masters Tournament at…