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Civil rights complaint filed against Pine Valley GC for ‘pattern of gender-based discrimination’

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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.

17 Comments

17 Comments

  1. Chad Tyrone

    May 1, 2022 at 11:02 pm

    Feminism = Cancer

  2. 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

  3. Paul Runyan

    Apr 29, 2022 at 5:11 pm

    Pretty soon they’ll want their own schools!! ?

    Have a drink. This too shall pass…

  4. Paul Runyan

    Apr 29, 2022 at 5:10 pm

    Pretty soon they’ll want their own schools!! ?

    Have a drink. This too shall pass…

  5. T-Bone

    Apr 29, 2022 at 3:55 pm

    Should I file a complaint against the Woman’s Golf Association at my local muni?

  6. 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.

  7. Tom Kay

    Apr 29, 2022 at 12:24 pm

    The problem will solve itself as more woke women become men.

  8. 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.

  9. Donny Barclay

    Apr 29, 2022 at 6:57 am

    Feminism = Cancer

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Around the world, the golf wheel spun this final week in May of 2026. From New Jersey to Austria, with stops in Korea, Texas, and North Carolina (don’t let me route your next trip) the world’s finest put their golf games on display. There were three playoffs, some known commodities and some new talent. It was the sort of week that we hope to have at this point in the seasons. June and July afford double-digit major events, and perhaps, one of this week’s champions will use this success as a springboard to new heights. Time to run it all down, tech style, in this week’s Tour Tech Rundown.

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The extra session concluded in brief time. Ortiz, buoyed by his newly-retrieved confidence, hit the fairway with driver, then approached to six feet and drained the putt. Gobsmacked, Steelman could do little more than smile and applaud, as his run at the top came to a close. The victory was the first for Ortiz on the KFT, and will implant him squarely in the chase for a PGA Tour promotion.

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Driver: Titleist TSi3 (10 degrees)
Shaft: Project X HZRDUS Smoke Black 70 6.5 TX

3-wood: Titleist TS3 (16.5 degrees)
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7-wood: Titleist GTS3 (21 degrees)
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Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM11 (48-10F @47, 50-08F @51, 54-10S @55, 60-04T)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (48), S400 (47)

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