Eventually she decided to take lessons elsewhere. Other women have not been so amenable. The club excluded women from voting, prime tee times and the men's grill. In the months that followed, Martin reportedly received threatening phone calls, her crab-apple trees were uprooted from her lawn, and her Himalayan cat, Max, was poisoned. The Longmeadow Country Club has since reformed.
Rules are no longer gender biased.
In New York, another well-known golfing discrimination case was filed by Long Island art teacher Lee Lowell, who joined the Cedar Brook Golf and Tennis Club in 1988 with her husband. Neither of them saw anything in the club's bylaws that would keep her from playing whenever she wished. She bridled but obeyed, and came back week after week to face the same treatment. After arguing with her for a few weeks, the starter gave Lowell a Saturday-morning tee time. As Lowell finished the 17th hole and drove her cart to the next tee, three club members, including a ranking member of the golf committee, met her with curses.