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Article: Play golf with crusty old duffers nodding into their soup? No thanks!(Features)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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Byline: MARY CARR
DOCTOR Louise Richardson, the newly appointed chancellor of the University Of St Andrews said it all. Asked about why she had not been bestowed as her male predecessors automatically had with honorary membership of her men-only Royal & Ancient Golf Club, the Harvard professor - from Ireland and a specialist in international terrorism - shrugged her shoulders.
'I haven't had time to go to the gym since I got here so the idea that I would have three hours to play a game of golf is unrealistic,' she said.
And so say all of us. The decision of the Supreme Court to allow our comparably illustrious Portmarnock Golf Club retain its ...