Muirfield golf club without women members a year after vote

Muirfield golf club are still without a woman member, a year after a monumental vote to do so.

One of the traditional Open Championship venues, the course was excluded from selection after a vote on women members fell short of the majority required in May 2016.

Subsequently, that decision was reversed when the historic vote went in favour of admitting women in March the following year, by 498 to 123.

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However, according to reports, it could take up to two more years before the first woman is admitted to the club.

The club did, however, accept that a number of women have applied.

A club statement read: “We are very pleased to say that we have had a number of women proposed to be members and the process is well under way.”

Speaking after announcing the result of the second ballot, club captain Henry Fairweather said fast-tracking women was not an option.

“Our members were quite clear that they wanted women to be treated, not in any artificial way, but to go through the same admissions process as men,” he said.

“That means it will take a little time for women to become members.

“We’ve got quite a complicated admissions process and we have a waiting list. They don’t apply, they have to be proposed and seconded by members, but anybody who is interested in becoming a member of Muirfield, I would say: ‘Go for it’.”