The democratisation of golf

Lydia Ko’s extraordinary triumph in the Canadian Open is further evidence of golf’s democratisation.

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15th September, 2012

August was a momentous month in women’s golf. After eight decades of implacable resistance, the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia opened its doors to women. Well, two of them, anyway. The wheels of history grind slowly down in Dixie: until 1990, Augusta refused to admit Afro-Americans. And it was only in 1982 that it changed its rules to allow players to use caddies who weren’t black. The women in question are a financier whose husband was a business partner of former president George W Bush, and Condoleezza Rice, who was Bush’s national security adviser and secretary of state. As ...

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