(Reuters) - Fourteen years after criticizing Augusta National Golf Club for its all-male membership policy, women's issues expert Martha Burk has called for next year's U.S. Women's Open to be moved from Trump National in New Jersey.
In a blog for The Huffington Post on Friday, Burk lambasted tournament organizers, the United States Golf Association, for placing "profit over principle" and added a link to a petition to force the USGA to hold the event elsewhere.
"Seems the USGA, no stranger to hypocrisy, refuses to move next year's U.S. Women's Open from the Trump-owned Bedminster club, even though the USGA issued a public statement condemning Trump's racist views after his 'Mexican rapist' rant when he announced his candidacy," Burk wrote.