The Unplayable Lie: The Untold Story of Women and Discrimination in American Golf

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Summary: An Excellent Book Which Exposes The Hypocracy Of Golf
Review: This book will have very limited appeal. Taken at face value, the author's condescending ar guments are valid. But the average golfer has very little sympathy for upper crust women who want to have the same unfettered right to dis criminate against the rest of us that their male counterparts have enjoyed with impunity for years. They are outraged that private country clubs view them with the same disdain that they have for public course patrons. The utter ab surdity of their position is shown in the quote that introduces the text. A divorcee who was banished from her country club dares to proclaim that "Rosa Parks was told to go to the back of the bus. I was thrown off the bus." Yeah, right!

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Summary: The average golfer will be unsympathetic to this "injustice"
Review: This book will have very limited appeal. Taken at face value, the author's condescending ar guments are valid. But the average golfer hasvery little sympathy for upper crust women whowant to have the same unfettered right to discriminate against the rest of us that their malecounterparts have enjoyed with impunity foryears. They are outraged that private countryclubs view them with the same disdain that theyhave for public course patrons. The utter absurdity of their position is shown in the quotethat introduces the text. A divorcee who wasbanished from her country club dares to proclaimthat "Rosa Parks was told to go to the back ofthe bus. I was thrown off the bus." Yeah, right!

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Summary: An Excellent Book Which Exposes The Hypocracy Of Golf
Review: This non-fiction book is extremely well reseached and written. The discrimination against women that it recounts is appalling, and sadly common place. This is an ideal starting place for anyone who wants to impliment change at his or her club. The book also deatails that manner in which the PGA Tour, the PGA of America, and the USGA foster continued discrimination against women by holding tournaments at clubs which discriminate. This is also a morality tale which shows just how far women have to go in American in the late 20th century to overcome sex discrimination. The men at these private clubs who are discriminating againt women are the same men who are at the economic top of our country. They are more than willing to do in private what they know is both leaglly and morally wrong to do in their business relations. But for Title VII and the state laws against discrimination, women would be far behind where they are today. An excellent book which should be read by anybody who loves the game of golf or who is concerned with social justice.