IT’S ONE OF the most conservative institutions in sport – and that’s saying something.
But Augusta National Golf Club last night found itself embroiled in another equality row when a female reporter was barred from the locker-room, allegedly because of her gender.
After Charl Schwartzel won his first green jacket at the end of a dramatic day, sports columnist Tara Sullivan was ‘barred’ from the locker room because she’s a woman, the Huffington Post reports.
“Bad enough no women members at Augusta,” Sullivan tweeted. “But not allowing me to join writers in locker-room interview is just wrong.”
Tournament officials later apologised to the writer, insisting it was a security error. Sullivan works for New Jersey publication the Bergen Record.
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