Best News From Royal St. George's: Now Admitting Girls

I'm sure you saw the usual stuff on social media and elsewhere about the great grow the game statement from Royal St. George's in voting to admit women to their membership.

It's mostly hogwash. Adding a few spry rich women certainly is a nice gesture, but it sure it's not going to grow the game. Now, if more of these high-end places like Royal St. George's were bringing in promising junior golfers, that would have an impact. I was prepared to peel off a nice rant about that, but then Alistair Tait's Golfweek.com story on RSG gave me hope:

Unlike the Royal & Ancient, Royal St George’s has a junior section. The club currently has about 50 boys, and takes in about six new juniors per year. Checketts says girls may join the club that way, too.

“The junior process tends to be faster so we may get some juniors (girls) in straight away.

“We get juniors in quite quickly and get them involved and playing. We don’t really have an upper limit for juniors. We take as many as we can cope with.”