Muirfield Member: Campaign A Statement Against...The Press!?

Talk about point missing, as The Scotsman's Martin Dempster gets one of the anti-female-memberships at Muirfield to speak, and instead of blaming the R&A for its policy regarding Open venues, or, I don't know, the dreary weather, an 81-year-old is trying to turn the stance into a media-driven issue.

Speaking for a small portion of his fellow Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers "No" campaigners, former Scotland rugby player John Douglas chararcterized the battle as a club vs. media mess.

“It wasn’t so much a vote against the ladies as a vote against the media and the press telling us what to do. No-one likes being hammered all the time.”

Well, it depends on your definition of hammered!