Martha Burk and Augusta National, 20 Years Later

4.7.23 – Every year on the second week of April, the golf world turns its attention to Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia — it’s time for the Masters Tournament, one of the sport’s four annual major championships. In 2003, a concussion bomb fell on that carefully controlled environment in the form of New Mexico’s Martha Burk, a longtime champion for women’s pay equity and a host of other issues.  Burk had set her sights on Augusta’s exclusionary membership policies and on the massive pay gaps in companies led by some of the club’s members and television sponsors. Burk’s protest is now the stuff of legend. NMPBS Executive Producer Jeff Proctor caught up with Burk for a chat — on Masters week, no less — about what’s changed and what hasn’t in the two decades since her protest.

Correspondent: Jeff Proctor

Guest: Martha Burk, Author, Host of the Podcast ‘Equal Time with Martha Burk’

For More Information:

MASTERS ’23: 20 years after protests, women still look ahead – Associated Press

Martha Burk, Hootie Johnson, and Augusta National, 15 Years Later – The Ringer

The 2003 Masters: Augusta National Protesters (Pro and Con) Have Their Day – The New York Times

GOLF; Burk Fights the Battle She’s Given – The New York Times

What does Martha think now? – The Augusta Chronicle