A note from across the pond

Members of the St Regulus Ladies Golf Club recently played the New Course at St Andrews, one of several links courses available to club members. Photo: Courtesy of St Regulus Ladies Golf Club.
Were you to do a Google search for “Women’s Golf Clubs in America,” it will direct you to a succession of different makes of golf clubs — Titleist, Callaway, Wilson, you name it. If, on the other hand, you were to search “Women’s Golf Clubs in Scotland,” the first thing you would see is a map pin-pointing the towns and villages which are home to those golfing venues that are exclusively for women.
America does not need such a map; they do not have any all-women's clubs.
How curious is this when you think about the umpteen Scottish-born professionals — Tommy Armour and Jock Hutchison, to name just a couple — who decided to ply their trade in the U.S. at the turn of the 19th century. They would have spread the word about the single-sex nature of the game in their homeland but, though the Americans picked up to some extent on the idea of the all-ma...