Security guard at Masters golf tourney bars female reporter from locker room

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

Masters officials apologized to sports columnist Tara Sullivan of The Bergen (N.J.) Record on Sunday evening after a security guard denied her entry to a locker room for a post-tournament interview.

Augusta National spokesman Steve Ethun said the guard acted improperly in stopping Sullivan, because club policy is to provide equal access to all reporters. The club has no female members, but several female reporters at the tournament confirmed they had made numerous trips to the locker room for interviews in the past without incident.

... Ethun said the club hires a number of people to work the tournament and the guard was apparently unaware of the equal-access policy.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/04/10/sports/s184719D12.DTL&tsp=1

[msongs]

1. are male reporters allowed in the women's locker rooms? nt

[tularetom]

3. I'm guessing there are no women's locker rooms at Augusta National

There was a big to do a few years back about the restricted membership.

[pnwmom]

5. delete

[pnwmom]

6. There are no female members. Why would there be women's locker rooms?

[Liquorice]

8. Yes they generally are, like at WNBA games. nt

[itsrobert]

2. I don't see a need to let any reporters in the locker room

male or female. How about some privacy for a change?

Has anyone ever seen any live shots from inside a women's locker room? Not to my knowledge it has ever happen.


Regardless, it looks like a not fully trained security guard made a decision she thought was proper without calling a supervisor.

[pipoman]

4. Couldn't agree more..

"I don't see a need to let any reporters in the locker room", they want to piss and moan about the paparazzi when they are out in public but never have objected to reporters in locker rooms...the truth is they are publicity whores who just need something to bitch about since salary and work hours are off the table..

[NYC Liberal]

7. Not that they aren't necessarily publicity whores, but...

the paparazzi on the street are totally different from a few reporters in a locker room. Paparazzi are nuts...they stalk, harass, scream, block traffic, chase people with their cars...and there are usually dozens of them.