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Civil rights complaint filed against Pine Valley GC for ‘pattern of gender-based discrimination’
Three weeks ago, Golf WRX reported on a press conference held at Augusta by Fred Ridley, where he commented that, “Women members are a very important part of our membership, and you will continue to see over the years, if you look, more green jackets that are women. I’m going to make sure of that.”
Unfortunately, that doesn’t appear to be the case at all golf clubs.
This week, New Jersey Acting Attorney General Matthew Platkin filed an eight-page civil rights complaint against Pine Valley Golf Club based on ‘a pattern of gender-based discrimination’.
Platkin states that the club, which only started admitting female members last year, has 700-plus members of which only 0.5 percent are women.
Further allegations state that the Camden County Club considered one of the greatest golf courses in the world, prohibited women from becoming members and, “with extremely narrow exceptions,” prohibited them from playing golf or otherwise accessing club facilities.
As a private club, Pine Valley has lived under the premise that its exclusivity meant it could choose who it wanted to be members, but nj.com report that:
“State officials in announcing the complaint acknowledged that clubs that are distinctly private are exempt from the Law Against Discrimination’s protections from discrimination in places of public accommodation. But they said an exception could be invoked regarding the Pine Valley Gulf Club because the club was so deeply intertwined with the former borough of Pine Valley.”
“The borough was a legally incorporated New Jersey municipality where all the land was owned by the golf club and served no other purpose than as gatekeeper for the club. Essentially, the club was the borough. Pine Valley, the borough, merged into the neighboring Pine Hill around the beginning of 2022.”
Further allegations against the club include the barring of women from owning one of the 19 homes tucked around the course, unless they did so with a member – in effect, a man.
Whilst the club’s officials say their rules were relaxed in April 2021, the State claims this was only after they had launched their investigation, a part of which has looked at the employee ratio.
Reportedly, less than four percent of the club’s staff were female. In real terms, just six women.
The complaint states, “Based on their job titles, the six women appear to be in positions that have little contact with club members.”
“Gender-based discrimination has no place in New Jersey, period,” said Platkin in a statement.
Pine Valley has yet to respond to reporters’ request for a statement.
I’m going to gush in this intro paragraph, to get the emo stuff done early. I’ve not pulled harder for a professional to win, than Cameron Young. I coach golf in New York state, and each spring, my best golfers head to a state championship in Poughkeepsie. I first saw Cameron there as a 9th grade student. I saw him three more times after that. I reconnecected with Coach Haas from Wake Forest, an old interview subject from my days on the Old Gold and Black, the Wake newspaper. He was there to watch Cameron. After four years at Wake Forest, Young won on the Korn Ferry Tour, made it to the big tour, almost won two majors, almost won five other events, and finally got the chalice about 25 minutes from the Wake campus. Congratulations, Cameron. You truly are a glass of the finest. #MotherSoDear
OK, let’s move on to the Tour Rundown. The major championship season closed this week in Wales, with the Women’s Open championship. The PGA Tour bounced through Greensboror, N.C., while the PGA Tour Americas hit TO (aka, Toronto) for a long-winded event. The Korn Ferry lads made a stop in Utah, one of just two events for that tour in August. The many-events, golf season is winding down, as we ease from summer toward fall in the northern hemisphere. Let’s bask in the glory of an August sunrise, and run down a quartet of events from the first weekend of the eighth month.
LET/LPGA @ Women’s Open: Miyu bends, but she doesn’t break
Royal Porthcawl was not a known commodity in the major tournament community. The Welsh links had served as host to men’s senior opens, men’s amateurs, and Curtis and Walker Cups in prior years, but never an Open championship for the women or the men. The last-kept secret in UK golf was revealed once again to the world this week, as the best female golfers took to the sandy stage.
Mao Saigo, Grace Kim, Maja Stark, and Minjee Lee hoped to add a second major title to previous wins this season, but only Lee was able to finish inside the top ten. The 2025 playing of the Women’s Open gave us a new-faces gallery from day one. The Kordas and Thitikulls were nowhere to be found, and it was the Mayashitas, Katsus, and Lim Kims that secured the Cymru spotlight. The first round lead was held at 67 by two golfers. One of them battled to the end, while the other posted 81 on day two, and missed the cut. Sitting one shot behind was Miyu Yamashita.
On day two, Yamashita posted the round of the tournament. Her 65 moved her to the front of the aisle, in just her fourth turn around a women’s Open championship. With the pre-event favorites drifting off pace, followers narrowed into two camps: those on the side of an underdog, and others hoping for a weekend charge from back in the pack. In the end, we had a bit of both.
On Saturday, Yamashita bent with 74 on Saturday, offering rays of hope to her pursuing pack. England’s Charley Hull made a run on Sunday closing within one shot before tailing off to a T2 finish with Minami Katsu. Katsu posted the other 65 of the week, on Saturday, but could not overtake her countrywoman, Yamashita. wunderkind Lottie Woad needed one round in the 60s to find her pace, but could only must close-to’s, ending on 284 and a tie with Minjee for eighth.
On Sunday, Yamashita put away the thoughts of Saturday’s struggles, with three-under 33 on the outward half. She closed in plus-one 37, but still won by two, for a first Major and LPGA title.
PGA Tour @ Wyndham: Young gathers first title near home
Cameron Young grew up along the Hudson river, above metro New York, but he also calls Winston-Salem home. He spent four years as a student and athlete at Wake Forest University, then embarked on tour. This week in Greensboro, after a bit of a break, Young opened with 63-62, and revved the engine of Is this the week once more. Runner-up finishes at the Open, the PGA, and a handful of PGA Tour events had followers wonder when the day would come.
On Saturday, Young continued his torrid pace with 65, giving him a five-shot advantage over his closest pursuer. Sunday saw the Scarborough native open with bogey, then reel off five consecutive birdies to remind folks that his time had, at last, arrived. Pars to the 16th, before two harmless bogeys coming home, made Young the 1000th winner of an official PGA Tour event (dating back to before there was a PGA Tour) throughout history. What’s next? I have a suspicion, but I’m not letting on. Mac Meissner closed with 66 to finish solo 2nd, while Mark Hubbard and Alex Noren tied for third.
Korn Ferry Tour @ Utah Championship: Are you Suri it’s Julian?
Who knows exactly when the flower will bloom? Julian Suri played a solid careet at Duke University, then paid his dues on the world’s minor tours for three years. He won twice on two tours in Europe, in 2017. Since then, the grind has continued for the journeyman from New York city. At age 34, Suri broke through in Beehive state, outlasting another grinder (Spencer Levin) and four others, by two shots.
Taylor Montgomery began the week with 62, then posted 64, then 68, and finally, 70. That final round was his undoing. He finished in that second-place tie, two back of the leader. Trace Crowe, Barend Botha, and Kensei Hirata made up the last of the almost quintet. As for Suri, his Sunday play was sublime. His nines were 32 and 31, with his only radar blip a bogey at ten. He closed in style with one final birdie, to double his winning margin. Hogan bloomed late…might Suri?
PGA Tour Americas @ Osprey Valley Open presented by Votorantim Cimentos – CBM Aggregates
Some tournament names run longer than others. This week in Toronto, at the Heathlands course at TPC Toronto, we might have seen the longest tournament title in recorded history. The OVOPBVCCBMA was a splendid affair. It saw three rounds of 62 on Thursday, but of those early risers, only Drew Goodman would stick around until the end. 64 was the low tally on day two, and two of those legionnaires managed to finish inside the top three at week’s end. Saturday brought a 63 from Patrick Newcomb, and he would follow with 64 on Sunday, to finish solo fourth.
Who, then, ended up winning the acronym of the year? It turns out that Carson Bacha had the right stuff in TeeOhhh. Bacha and Jay Card III posted 63 and 64, respectively, on day four, to tie for medalist honors at 23-under 261. Nathan Franks was one shot adrift, despite also closing with 63. If you didn’t go low on Sunday, it was about the check, not the championship.
Bacha and JC3 returned to the 18th hole twice in overtime. Card nearly chipped in from the thick stuff for birdie, while Bacha peeked and shoved a ten-feet attempt at the win. On the second go-round, Card was long with his approach, into the native grasses once more. He was unable to escape, and a routine par from the fairway was enough to earn the former Auburn golfers a first KFT title.
Card III and Bacha both miss their birdie tries on the first playoff hole.
We’ll play 18 again @OspreyOpen. pic.twitter.com/vNpHTdkHDg
— PGA TOUR Americas (@PGATOURAmericas) August 3, 2025
GolfWRX is live this week from the final event of the PGA Tour’s regular season, the Wyndham Championship.
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Kurt Kitayama just won his 2nd PGA Tour event at the 3M Open. Kurt is a Bridgestone staffer but with just the ball and bag. Here are the rest of the clubs he used to secure a win at the 2025 3M Open.
Driver: Titleist GT3 (11 degrees, D1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Graphite Design Tour AD VF 7 TX
3-wood: Titleist GT1 3Tour (14.5 degrees, A3 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Graphite Design Tour AD DI 8 TX
7-wood: Titleist GT1 (21 degrees, A1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Graphite Design Tour AD DI 9 TX
Irons: TaylorMade P7CB (4), TaylorMade P7MB (5-PW)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100
Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM10 (52-12F, 56-14F), Vokey Design WedgeWorks (60-K*)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400
Putter: Scotty Cameron Studio Style Newport 2 Tour Prototype
Grip: SuperStroke Zenergy 1.0PT
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet
Ball: Bridgestone Tour B XS (with Mindset)
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Chad Tyrone
May 1, 2022 at 11:02 pm
Feminism = Cancer
C
Apr 29, 2022 at 8:47 pm
So it’s time men just joined women’s clubs like Needlework but go in stinking to high heaven after having not bathed for a week and if they complain about a man in a women’s club well we should all sue them for sexism too
Paul Runyan
Apr 29, 2022 at 5:11 pm
Pretty soon they’ll want their own schools!! ?
Have a drink. This too shall pass…
Paul Runyan
Apr 29, 2022 at 5:10 pm
Pretty soon they’ll want their own schools!! ?
Have a drink. This too shall pass…
T-Bone
Apr 29, 2022 at 3:55 pm
Should I file a complaint against the Woman’s Golf Association at my local muni?
Tony
Apr 29, 2022 at 2:48 pm
7.62 is going to solve a lot of problems soon. Bankers, bureaucrats, politicians, lawyers, wokesters, transformers… all gone.
We have a subversive and parasite problem and the pot is boiling.
Tom Kay
Apr 29, 2022 at 12:24 pm
The problem will solve itself as more woke women become men.
Kevin Thatcher
Apr 29, 2022 at 7:13 am
Women and their beta orbiters will keep on pushing and pushing to destroy all of our established institutions. A line in the sand has to be drawn by the strong. Women will be happier for it, because that is really what they want. They’re begging for Western men to stand up to them and put them in their place. It’s human nature for them to be this way. It’s man’s fault for allowing women in the west to become the degenerate nightmares that they are.
Ryan
Apr 29, 2022 at 12:00 pm
What in the world are you talking about Kevin this is a golf course. What will happen when women being sharing your fancy little sporting field?! Oh no! Your huge balls might fall off and drop right into their purse. I hope they don’t beat you in golf
Dale
Apr 29, 2022 at 12:31 pm
Unless Pine Valley, or any other private golf club for that matter, receives some sort of public funding or operates with some sort of concessions, what business does anyone have telling them what they can and cannot do? It is flat out as simple as that. To say otherwise is naïve at best and at worst, disingenuous and intellectually dishonest. What else would you expect from people who say men can be female and get pregnant…
Ryan
Apr 29, 2022 at 12:57 pm
Sorry to be “disingenuous and intellectually dishonest” but I’m trying to understand how these private golf clubs of USA waive these laws everyone else (incl private businesses) follow. I need to learn more from you old hacks defending them. Are you playing at Pine Valley sometime?
Jimmy
Apr 29, 2022 at 3:17 pm
It’s the “places of public accommodation” part that binds a US entity to our antidiscrimination laws. NJ is saying that Pine Valley’s “borough” status makes them beholden to these laws. I’m sure PV’s lawyers will disagree.
Besides Pine Valley, the few men-only clubs that are left avoid AD laws by not opening themselves up to the public at all, ie they don’t host weddings, charity dinners, public tournaments etc. The only people allowed access are members, their invited guests, and employees.
One only needs to read these comments to get a feel for what we’re dealing with over here. You can’t even mention a legal proceeding against an iconic golf institution without hyper-masculine bell-ends jumping in to whine about wokes, feminism, and transgender people. A significant portion of the right is obsessed with maintaining the man/woman binary, with men holding pretty much all of the power.
geohogan
May 1, 2022 at 8:09 am
Dont forget the widespread secret fraternal orders
Mark
Apr 29, 2022 at 2:20 pm
I have a family member who belongs to an all mens club. Most have had to add women because they can prove as a member, you are an owner and if you do any business with a govt. entity, and can be proven you talked on your phone while at the golf club, you lose that exemption. That is why his club has a no phone policy while at the club.
Jimmy
Apr 29, 2022 at 3:20 pm
The incels have chimed in.
Stefan Molyneux
May 1, 2022 at 11:06 pm
Not an argument Jimmy!
Donny Barclay
Apr 29, 2022 at 6:57 am
Feminism = Cancer