With more selfies than birdies, golf shouldn't need Paige Spiranac

Their worst fears have been confirmed, the old boys at the R&A who reluctantly prized their doors slightly ajar to ‘ladies’ last year.

They will be far too dignified to say, at least without going through the chair, that ‘we told you so’, but they told us so.

Buoyed by this belated acceptance in the corridors of power, the dreaded ladies have taken just over a year to make a mockery of the sport.