The green jacketed members of the powerful private club famously tell the biggest golf stars, TV networks and sponsors what to do and how to do it. Despite the millions earned by today’s golfers, they’re still “gutless” when it comes to meekly obeying Augusta’s strict rules and regulations, according to golf legend Lee Trevino.
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Speaking to the “Memphis Commercial Appeal,” Trevino pointed to the club’s cell phone policies:
Trevino never won the Masters so some of this could be sour grapes. Other private golf clubs are equally strict about cell phones. Try chatting away on your iPhone at Baltusrol Golf Club and see what happens.
On other hand, this is not coming out of left field. During his career, Trevino frequently butted heads with Clifford Roberts, the club’s autocratic co-founder who refused to allow African-American and female members.
The conflict between the two men led Trevino to skip the tournament three times when he was in his playing prime in the early and mid 1970s. Per Trevino:
