Two-hundred-seventy-five years later, and more than two years after Muirfield’s Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers announced that it would open its membership to women, it has extended invitations to 12 women, the club announced today.
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.