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Shoal Creek resurfaces on golf scenechange now that it has finally lured another national touma-hostingofthePGAChampionship. The rancor■ U.S. Junior Amateur beginsMonday at course Championship that begins zations to adopt membershipment,theU.S. Junior Amateur prompted major golf organi-The Associated PressSHOAL CREEKShoalCreek.For many outside the imposing gates of this picturesque and secluded golf and country club, the name still conjures memories of the racial tempest that swirled around the 1990 PGA Championship. For others, the exclusive club has faded from golf’s national consciousness altogether.Shoal Creek believes those perceptions will begin toMonday and runs through policies for tournament sites.next Saturday.Several major sponsors64We've been trying to get including Anheuser-Busch,golf back since 1990,” said Toyota and IBMyankedMike Thompson, the event’s TV ads and black organiza-general chairman and son of Shoal Creek founder Hall Thompson.What took so long? That's easy.Hall Thompson's comments that his club would not be pressured into accepting black members — and the fact that it had none at the U.S. Amateur Championship, time — stirred controversy Shoal Creek is hoping it’s just before Shoal Creek's the start of a public renewal.tions threatened to picket outside. Hall Thompson, now 85, later apologized.Eighteen years later, the United States Golf Association is once again bringing a significant event to a course that hosted two PGA Championships and the 1986
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Fort Payne Times Journal
Fort Payne, Alabama, US
Sat, Jul 19, 2008
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