No matter Sunday’s champion, history was guaranteed to be made at this week’s AIG Women’s Open. The women’s major championship had for the first time been welcomed to Muirfield, the elite Scottish club that for centuries had barred women from its membership until finally admitting female members three years ago.
On Saturday, though, that history added an extra wrinkle as one of those members teed it up in the championship.
With an odd number of competitors making the cut, Lindsey Garden, who joined the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers last year, received the call to play as a marker alongside Wales’ Lydia Hall in the first twosome off.