There has been quite a bit of news coverage about another female reporter being banned from access at a golf tournament:
“A female reporter was denied access to the locker room to interview Rory McIlroy after Sunday’s final round of the Masters, though it was later revealed as a misunderstanding by a security official. A Masters media staff member apologized Sunday to Tara Sullivan, a columnist for the Bergen (N.J.) Record, after she was barred by security personnel from entering the player’s locker room for an interview because she was a woman. At least a dozen male reporters were granted access to the locker room following Sunday’s final round of the Masters.”

The article reminded me of a story about Betty Jaycox – pictured above. She was the Beacon Journal women’s editor when she was banned from the press tent during the 1960 PGA Championship at the Firestone Country Club. This is what she wrote:
“I wear a big red press badge on my lapel, my car windshield has a green press sticker so large that I can scarcely see around it to drive.

I can buy “press” coupons for eating purposes, but I can’t go in the press tent.

Why? Because I am a woman.

Now did you ever hear anything so downright laughable? I never knew I was so dangerous.

Here I am, assigned to write PGA stories to tell about the crowd, about the wives of players, about the color of the scene, about the interest women have in a game that probably has as many women devotees as men, and I have no place to write, no spot for a typewriter, no hook for messages.

Why? Because men sports writers decided in the historic past that golf is a man’s game, and that no woman journalist will ever clutter up the confines of their cluttered sanctuary.”

Sad that 50 years after Betty’s experience, women journalists are still excluded from golf events.

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There has been quite a bit of news coverage about another female reporter being banned from access at a golf tournament:
“A female reporter was denied access to the locker room to interview Rory McIlroy after Sunday’s final round of the Masters, though it was later revealed as a misunderstanding by a security official. A Masters media staff member apologized Sunday to Tara Sullivan, a columnist for the Bergen (N.J.) Record, after she was barred by security personnel from entering the player’s locker room for an interview because she was a woman. At least a dozen male reporters were granted access to the locker room following Sunday’s final round of the Masters.”

The article reminded me of a story about Betty Jaycox – pictured above. She was the Beacon Journal women’s editor when she was banned from the press tent during the 1960 PGA Championship at the Firestone Country Club. This is what she wrote:
“I wear a big red press badge on my lapel, my car windshield has a green press sticker so large that I can scarcely see around it to drive.

I can buy “press” coupons for eating purposes, but I can’t go in the press tent.

Why? Because I am a woman.

Now did you ever hear anything so downright laughable? I never knew I was so dangerous.

Here I am, assigned to write PGA stories to tell about the crowd, about the wives of players, about the color of the scene, about the interest women have in a game that probably has as many women devotees as men, and I have no place to write, no spot for a typewriter, no hook for messages.

Why? Because men sports writers decided in the historic past that golf is a man’s game, and that no woman journalist will ever clutter up the confines of their cluttered sanctuary.”

Sad that 50 years after Betty’s experience, women journalists are still excluded from golf events.

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