Opinion: Chairman misses opportunity to put Masters on right side of history
Delta Airlines made a point of saying in its statement denouncing the law.
He could have said the club will focus its efforts on supporting federal legislation to protect voting access and address voter suppression, as Coke did in its statement criticizing the law.
Instead, Ridley passed.
Is it too much to ask of a golf club, albeit one filled with some of the nation’s most powerful men (and women, at least a few), to step out of its golf shoes and consider helping the nation in this very big way? Many will think that it is, that Ridley was right to offer a few predictable sentences about the “fundamental” right to vote, then escape a pesky question about whether he was for the law or against it by saying he didn’t think his opinion “should shape the discussion,” leaving us to wonder what he truly thinks of the legislation.
Oh, but this is where he went wrong. Can you imagine the reaction if the nation’s best-known old boys’ club announced, as its iconic Georgia neighbors Delta and Coke did, that it was not supporting the law, then unleashed all the might of its green-jacketed CEOs to work in their states to make sure similar legislation died a well-deserved death?
It’s the wonderful headline that will never be written: “Augusta National says Georgia voting law must go.”
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