Change came to St Andrews but women members cannot change in clubhouse | Ewan Murray


Royal & Ancient Golf Club says it’s not practical to install separate changing rooms so women have to use facilities 100 yards away in a separate building

More than two years after a historic vote by the Royal & Ancient Golf Club seemingly to end centuries of discrimination by admitting women to the club, female members still have no changing room inside the St Andrews clubhouse. Instead women, who were allowed to become members from September 2014, are obliged to use facilities 100 yards away in a separate building, the R&A-owned Forgan House.

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