Billy Payne News
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Exxon Mobil Corp. is ending its top-level sponsorship of the Masters Tournament, while United Parcel Service Inc. joins the partner rolls of golf’s first annual major championship.
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Women in green jackets aren’t the only change at Augusta National Golf Club as it prepares to host the Masters Tournament next week.
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Stanley Druckenmiller, one of the best-performing hedge-fund managers of the past three decades and an avid golfer, is among those who gave a total of $6.8 million to the Masters Tournament Foundation in 2011.
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The news that Augusta National Golf Club had invited Condoleezza Rice and Darla Moore to join Bill Gates and Warren Buffett as its newest members came as a surprise even to some who already have a green jacket.
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William “Hootie” Johnson, who once vowed that Augusta National Golf Club wouldn’t admit women even “if I drop dead this second,” said he personally nominated one of the club’s first two female members.
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The head of the Augusta National Golf Club maintain the organization’s silence on whether its membership will someday include a woman.
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Will International Business Machines Corp.’s Ginni Rometty be able to wear a green jacket at the Masters Tournament?
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Japan’s Ryo Ishikawa and Thailand’s Thaworn Wiratchant have accepted invitations to play in the Masters Tournament, according to Augusta National Golf Club chairman Billy Payne.
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Jim Armstrong will retire this year as Augusta National Golf Club’s executive director after 34 years in the job, the club said.
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Twenty-two years ago, International Business Machines Corp. used its clout to protest racial discrimination. The company joined other corporate sponsors in pulling television advertising from the PGA Championship which was being played at a whites-only Alabama golf club.
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