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Critics of Georgia’s new election law are seizing on golf’s Masters Tournament to put heat on executives who belong to the storied home course, but pressuring companies to speak out by targeting their bosses is not easy because membership at Augusta National is a closely held secret.
Calls for a boycott of the tournament, now underway, percolated after Major League Baseball pulled its annual All-Star game out of Atlanta in protest of new voting rules signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp. But the effort soon fizzled, and one reason may be the club s fierce privacy.
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Apr 5, 2021 10:54 AM EDT
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) The record score at Augusta National wasn’t all that set Dustin Johnson apart from other Masters champions.
No one else ever won the Masters and then didn’t play in another tournament the rest of the year. No other Masters champion was allowed to keep his green jacket for only five months before it was time to try to win it again.
Then again, no one ever played the Masters in November.
Postponed last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Masters is back to being that annual rite of spring the first major of the year, not the last one and so much about the 85th edition that begins April 8 feels almost normal.
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