A few years back, there were groups making a big stink about women not being admitted. In order to (paraphrasing here) save their sponsors any trouble, August actually refunded their 'sponsorship' fees and paid whatever money CBS would have gotten for commercials. The entire broadcast, all weekend long, was commercial free. This happened for a couple of years if I remember correctly.
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Cameron Childress <camer...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 3:53 PM, GMoney <gm0n3...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Ideally the PGA would pull the tournament and move it somewhere else. But >> obviously that aint gonna happen. > > > Actually - neither the PGA of America or PGA tour have anything to do with > the Masters tournament. It's a private tournament run entirely by Augusta > National. You must be formally invited by the Augusta National Golf Club to > play. > > No, there is not actually any "organization" capable of pulling anything. > Except the sponsors, who are lined up around the block. > > -Cameron > > ... > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:349567 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
