Muirfield Golf Club, the site of 16 British Opens and the source of the written Rules of Golf, dating to 1744, has been stripped of the right to host the major after voting against allowing female members.
Of the 616 members who voted, 397, or 64 percent, were in favor of the resolution. It fell 35 votes short of the two-thirds (432) of its 648 eligible voters to pass. Muirfield, run by the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, is one of two clubs in the British Open rotation to exclude women. Royal Troon, site of this year’s event, is the other.