Guardian's Hyde To R&A: "Grow a pair."

The Guardian's always pithy Marina Hyde chimes in on the R&A stance's against bullying clubs into taking female members and, well, you need to read the entire thing. Thanks to reader David for the column, which also includes a photo I'm sure Peter Dawson regrets posing for. 

Cover your eyes boys and girls, but the adults will find this fun:

And yet, even those of us sympathetic to the idea of men in golf might be troubled by the idea that the sport's own governing body feels that making policy amounts to "bullying".

But evidently it does. In a round of media interviews last week that some have bizarrely characterised as his meeting the issue head on, Dawson explained: "I can't deny that my job would be a lot easier if the issue didn't exist."

Oh do man up, Peter, as I believe the expression goes. You mustn't allow yourself to be – what's that other figure of speech? – pussywhipped by these clubs. They are making you what's known as their bitch, and it does look as if you need to, well, grow a pair. Alas, indications are that the R&A's collective testicles are to remain undropped for the foreseeable future – which, as I say, makes one wonder whether men are really suited to these kinds of important and complex leadership roles. Would they not be happier at a less operational level, where their innate gentleness could be showcased, instead of being forced into the unnatural position of exercising power?

And this about Augusta's move…

It really is grimly hilarious that some believe Augusta allowing two women to join its ranks – Condoleezza Rice and billionaire mogul Darla Moore – means they have "dealt with" their discrimination problem, when in a more insidious way, they have doubled down on it. What such sweet outreach gestures always say is that the absolute "best" women are now fit to take their place in line right behind whichever comparatively ordinary bloke was the institution's last admission.