About a month has passed since Henry Fairweather, the captain of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers stood a few steps from Muirfield’s 18th green and announced that, after 273 years of exclusion, women are now eligible for membership of the world’s oldest golf club.
The field for the 81st Masters contains 94 players. But only one ponytail. So picking out Curtis Luck shouldn’t be a problem for anyone inclined to follow the 20-year-old West Australian.
Two-time Masters champion Jose Maria Olazabal, largely absent from the European Tour for the past couple of years, is playing in his second event of 2017.