It took 275 years and two votes for the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers to let in female members – and set up one of the more anticipated weeks in women’s golf.
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.