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Randall's Rant: USWO to become a circus?

Related Topics: Martha Burk, Circus

Remember how activist Martha Burk’s protest of Augusta National’s all-male membership policy turned into a circus sideshow a few blocks from the club’s gates in 2003?

Remember the Elvis impersonator, the “One-Man Ku Klux Klan” and the “Georgina Z. Bush” character in clown makeup and circus drag who came to disrupt Burk’s protest outside the Masters?

If you’re a women’s golf fan, you’ve got to be worried that a big top’s coming to the U.S. Women’s Open at Trump Bedminster this summer.

You’ve got to be concerned that the brief protest that fizzled outside the front gate of the Bank of Hope Founders Cup on Saturday will grow into something larger, more sustained and unrelenting in the four months that lead up to most important competition in the women’s game.