Professional golfer Tom Watson quit the Kansas City Country Club in 1990 after it denied membership to Henry Bloch, one of the founders of H&R Block, who was Jewish. They offered a membership to Bloch a week later, and he joined. Watson didn’t rejoin until 1995.
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Professional golfer Tom Watson quit the Kansas City Country Club in 1990 after it denied membership to Henry Bloch, one of the founders of H&R Block, who was Jewish. They offered a membership to Bloch a week later, and he joined. Watson didn’t rejoin until 1995.