Royal & ancient golf club of st andrews

May 7th, 2026

The Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews just checked off this notable first

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British Open 2024 How does a golf club get to call itself ‘Royal’?

July 17th, 2024

Open Championship 2024: How does a golf club get to call itself ‘Royal’?

According to Scott Macpherson’s definitive 2013 book, Golf’s Royal Clubs, it began in 1833.

October 25th, 2022

Major invites at stake at the Asia-Pacific Amateur, but players from emerging golf nations eye something different

Through the joint efforts of golf’s two most famous clubs and the Asia Pacific Golf Federation, the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship has done an impressive job spreading the golf word throughout this vast region.

June 28th, 2019

Muirfield’s Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers invites 12 women to join, ending 275 years of males only

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.