Significantly, The New York Times had an article in its sports pages around the Saturday before last about this issue in Portmarnock Golf Club. It was the only article about anything outside the United States. I know it is a live issue in the United States itself because of controversy surrounding Augusta National golf club, where the US Masters is played. There has been considerable pressure to have that club opened up to women. Whatever about Portmarnock, Augusta has been an even greater bastion of prejudice. At one point it would not even have contemplated allowing black people through the gates, let alone women. Whether they equate the two is another matter. Tiger Woods changed a lot of that, thankfully.