Muirfield British Open Returns All-Male Golf Clubs to Spotlight

Less than a year after Augusta National Golf Club admitted its first female members, the subject of all-male clubs hosting major tournaments has resurfaced at the British Open.

Golf’s oldest championship begins in two days at Muirfield in Gullane, Scotland, one of three courses in the Open rotation that don’t allow women members, a stance Scotland’s highest-ranked government official labeled “indefensible in the 21st century.”