FRESH BALLOT UNDERWAY ON WOMEN MEMBERS AT MUIRFIELD

16 February 2017, Gullane, Scotland:
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 2017. 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.

Note

On 19 May 2016, the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers 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.

The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers own and play at Muirfield.