SAN MARTIN, Calif. – The USGA responded Friday to news that Martha Burk is backing “heavy-duty protesters” upset that the U.S. Women’s Open continues to be scheduled to be played at Trump National in Bedminster, N.J. next year.
Burk, who first came to prominence in golf in 2002 protesting the male-only membership policy Augusta National Golf Club had at the time, wrote a blog in the Huffington Post supporting a movement to “force the USGA to abandon Trump and his club.”
The U.S. Women’s Open is being staged this week at CordeValle Golf Club just south of San Jose, Calif.