SEX WAR IN GOLF

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3848, 3 October 1932, Page 7

SEX WAR IN GOLF

CLUBS IN ENGLAND

BARRIERS BROKEN DOMIN'

WOMEN PLAY ALMOST ANYWHERE

Women golfers haw ahnvly bin. insidi>Ugly t.ioken down v ; e barriers of lit.ifL s clubs in England during tiio past 10 j ears until now of tile more famous clul* the Royal fit. George's, at Sandivicti, .j s believed to bo tho only .which still retains its exclusively masculine ramparts. Even tie Royal Wimbledon Golf Club, which for 67 years withstood tide efforts of members of theWimbedon Ladies’ Golf Club, will admit them on November o.

Many golf clubs now allow tlireo different kinds of memborVMip for their women golfers. Tliero i s the full women's iiuoabcrsliip, where they pay slightly lesfl Fain tho men, and can play- on Saturdays or Sunday, but if, iL before 3 p..ii).- on men’s competition■ day-. Tliev must have Ending’ Golf ■'Prion ha'idicaps below 16. A lower fen is paid by associate, members who have n,> handicap or a higl'i one. But they must not play before 3 on Saturdays, noon on Sundays, or before 3 on c impeliturn, daysThere i; also the five-day membership, which i s the cheapd t> of all. On November 5, members of v'“ Wimbledon Ladies’ Golf dub will become members of the R lyal Club, rrwill lie able to phiv on fl* counso five, days a week. Saturday,, and Sundays will remain snored to the men. At present women have the use of tiio Royal Wimbledon course oil four dayt each week, and pay for tho permission. Now, however, part of the buildings have been converted to fount a separate club liou=o for. women.