LONDON — At the world’s oldest golf club, no amount of money was enough to allow a woman to become a member. Until now.
Muirfield Golf Club in Scotland, one of Britain’s last remaining holdouts against female membership, voted on Tuesday to admit women as members for the first time in its 273-year history. The club previously allowed women to play only on certain days as guests of current members.
The club voted on allowing women to join in May 2016, but the resolution fell just short of the two-thirds majority needed to pass.
That decision prompted the Royal and Ancient Golf Club, which organizes the Open Championship — otherwise known as the British Open — to stop using Muirfield as a site for the competition.