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McIlroy urges Muirfield to ‘see some sense’
- Updated: May 20, 2016
3:08 AM ET
Rory McIlroy has urged Muirfield to “see some sense” and reconsider its membership policy after the club was dropped from the Open Championship rota.
After a vote on accepting women members narrowly failed to achieve the two-thirds majority required, the R&A announced that the Scottish course would no longer be considered to host the game’s oldest major championship.
McIlroy, who won the Claret Jug at Hoylake in 2014, said: “They can do what they want but in this day and age it’s not right to host the world’s biggest tournament at a place that does not allow women to become members. Hopefully they can see some sense and we can get it back there one day.
“The R&A did the right thing. It’s 2016 and we have to move with the times. It’s taken long enough. Even the R&A only started letting women join last year or whatever it was [2014]. It’s about time that they did.
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“Bigger picture, it’s a great golf course, but there’s so many other great golf courses that we play on the Open rota that we’re not going to miss one. I think it’s more their loss than it is the R&A’s or our loss.
“If that’s what …
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