Early this morning the grumpy old Scottish loons at Muirfield voted to allow female members for the first time in its history as a private golf club. In response, the Royal & Ancient (R&A) Golf Club (one of golf's two major governing bodies) immediately reinstated Muirfield as part of the rota to host the British Open.

Sounds like a good thing, right? Certainly not DBOTW-worthy? Well...

This was something like the fifth or sixth time the issue of allowing female members came to a vote at Muirfield. It was only until the R&A threatened and removed the course from the Open rota that anything was done. So, Muirfield's all-male membership realized the threat to its prestige as one of the best courses in the world on one of golf's biggest stages and decided to play along. ONE FIFTH of the membership still voted "no", but the vote passed and the R&A immediately reinstated them.

"Just give them what they want and give us back the Open."

A better move by the R&A would have been to make Muirfield wait another year and to monitor the growth of female membership in terms of both volume and comfort. I'm willing to bet ladies aren't busting down the doors to become members out of fear that they'll still be treated like outsiders.

Consider Augusta National, one of the most racist, homophobic, and sexist establishments in the history of the game. They voted to allow female members for the first time in 2012. To the best of my knowledge, they only have three female members on their roster since that time. Condoleezza Rice was the first ANGC member, who really came as a two-for-one figurehead... but I digress.

Just like Augusta, I'm not going to get too worked up one way or another about rich men and women and how they go about their exclusive clubs that would escort every person on this board off the property unless a member was willing to say "Let them stay for a few hours".

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Fo sho. I am much more concerned with our elected officials who are racist, sexist, and homophobic.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Isn't Condi Rice a three-for-one?

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In a politically correct world that we often live in I think you are right that they should have monitored the club for a year or two
before giving them the green light and kind of slap them on the wrist for being stupid. That course is one of the crown jewels of
their rotation over there and we know that the very earliest it would be available to jump back in the mix would be 2022 so there
is still some time there to take it out again if needed.

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