‘To play on the greatest stage in golf, it doesn’t get any better’
“What an idea, isn’t it?” said Augusta National member Condoleezza Rice, who was sporting one of the club’s famed green jackets.
Rice, the former US Secretary of State, was among the first female members invited to join the club in 2012. Until then, Augusta National Golf Club was an all-male bastion for America’s powerbrokers that was slow to change with the times, to put it mildly. The proud, nay, haughty old place acts as if it is perhaps the lone independent state left under the constitution.
