Muirfield golf club to hold fresh ballot on female membership
Members rejected the idea just last month
Muirfield plans to hold another vote on female membership, just weeks after members rejected proposals to allow women golfers to join the club.
The decision taken in May was greeted with anger in and out of the game and the course was stripped of the right to host golf's Open Championship.
The East Lothian club held a ballot at the end of a two-year consultation on membership but failed to get the two-thirds majority of its 648 eligible voters required to change policy.
The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, which runs Muirfield, said it is now seeking a fresh ballot of its membership on admitting women as members of the Club''.
Club Captain Henry Fairweather said: “A substantial majority of our members voted for change and many have voiced their disappointment with the ballot result and with subsequent events.
"The Club Committee believes that a clear and decisive vote in favour of admitting women as members is required to enable us to begin the task of restoring the reputation of the Club that has been damaged by the earlier ballot outcome”.