MUIRFIELD GC

Gullane, Scotland

Unlike most of the clubs appearing in this feature, the home course of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, Muirfield in Scotland, actually welcomes visiting players twice a week.

For £185 you can play a round on the course that has hosted 15 Open Championships. That said, if you are a woman, you must be “accompanied by a gentleman player”. Also, there are no lunch facilities for ladies but “sandwiches and drinks can be provided in the Captain’s Room, if ordered in advance”.

It’s not just female players that get the cold treatment at Muirfield. On the evening after winning the 1980 Open Championship, Tom Watson urged Ben Crenshaw, Andy North and Tom Weiskopf to join him on the course for a hit. The foursome was nabbed by club officials and threatened with lifetime bans.

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