When Beth Daniel received her first invitation to compete in the Sun City Million Dollar Challenge she was thrilled. It was the 1980s, and Daniel was among the first group of women invited to play in the extremely limited-field event at the Gary Player Country Club in Bophuthatswana.
While there, Daniel went on safari in South Africa and toured Cape Town. It wasn’t long after, however, that Daniel learned from her agent that a letter had arrived from the United Nations informing her that she’d been blacklisted.
“You can call it naïve, ignorance,” said Daniel. “I didn’t realize going over there the apartheid policies and how it affected the people of that country. When I went over there and saw some of it, I was mortified by it.”
