Women’s Golf 2015: 10 Moments Worth Remembering (Video)
While the R&A had to be nudged into jumping over the gender barrier, once across it the doors to St Andrews began to swing wide.
The world of women’s golf took a great step when in February the R&A made good on its promise and extended its first membership invitations to women and simultaneously captured the global scope of the modern game.
How fitting that one of those invitations went to Dame Laura Davies, another to Louise Suggs and a third to Annika Sorenstam – three outstanding golfers who have collectively set the performance standards for women’s golf for more than half a century.
Belle Robertson and Lilly Segard brought the amateur golf world into the membership circle and The Princess Royal completed the vanguard, rightly symbolizing golf’s inclusion in the larger sporting world.
And St Andrews, unlike it’s little American sister, kept rolling out the invitations, adding two more distinguished amateurs to the membership before 2015 ended.
Kudos to St Andrews! Good show!
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