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LPGA pros wary of joining Burk's Trump protest

SAN MARTIN, Calif. – Martha Burk may have trouble enlisting LPGA players to support a movement to “force the USGA to abandon” plans to play the U.S. Women’s Open at Trump National in Bedminster, N.J., next year based on a small sampling of reactions Saturday at CordeValle.

Burk, the director of the National Council of Women’s corporate accountability project, is backing “heavy-duty protesters” upset that the U.S. Women’s Open will be played on a Trump property.

She explained in a blog in the Huffington Post Friday that she supports Dr. Jeffrey T. Sammons and other African American golfers who have been trying to get the USGA to disassociate from Trump properties.