Muirfield members vote again on admission

 

 of women

 

NEWS RELEASE

Members of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers have begun voting in a fresh ballot on the admission of women as Members of the Club.

 

The postal ballot will be independently scrutinised and the outcome is expected to be announced in mid-March. A vote last year on a resolution to admit women as Members narrowly failed to achieve the two-thirds majority required to change Club Rules. 

 

Voting in favour of the resolution to admit women as Members is recommended, unanimously, by The Captain, Captain Nominate and the Club Committee of the Honourable Company.

 

On May 19, 2016, the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, who own and play at Muirfield, Gullane, announced that a resolution to admit women as Members of the Club had failed to reach the two-thirds majority required to change Club Rules.

The independently scrutinised postal ballot recorded a vote of 64% in favour of the resolution and 36% against.

 

+Muirfield was removed by the R and A from the list of clubs who are invited to stage the Open championship on a rota basis following that vote.