"That's quite a bit of revisionist history in the article. I wonder if it was originally in the Daily Worker or something of the like. Anyway, being in charge of Gallery Control that year (along with Richard Fleming and Jim Rumley), we were aware of potential "protests" by the union "activists".
Within ten minutes of the radio call, we were peacefully loading protesters into waiting sheriff's vans to be arrested (to which I think we did not press any charges later). Anyway, there was no "hourlong" disruption, and the protesters never reached the green that I saw. They were marching down the 10th fairway arm-in-arm until we herded them off.
Too bad they chose to protest an event which benefitted the community they lived in. Thanks for letting me have the input.
Geoff Cass
1994 KGGO Gallery Control Chairman"
(Geoff Cass is also the 2006 Chrysler Classic of Greensboro General Chairman)
It should also be noted that it was a good thing for the 1994 Kmart Greater Greensboro Open that these protesters didn't know more about golf. By the time they got to the 10th fairway play had already concluded for the day on that hole.
Thursday, May 25, 2006
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I concurr with Geoff, there was not much they could do at that point and it was over so quickly very few people other than the media even knew it happened. The work of our gallery marshalls and the Guilford Sheriffs Deputy's handled it quite fast.
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