Rory McIlroy blasts Muirfield’s ‘men only’ vote

Rory McIlroy hailed the decision to remove Muirfield from the Open Championship rota over the club’s vote to continue refusing female members and declared the move as the Scottish course’s loss.

World number three McIlroy, the 2014 Open champion, joined a host of his fellow professionals in slamming Muirfield’s members for failing to change their club’s constitution and applauded the R&A’s reaction in telling the Lothian club that it’s revered links would no longer host the world’s oldest major unless they reconsidered.

“As an Open champion I don’t feel like it makes any difference, I probably had my worse professional week of my career at Muirfield, so I don’t feel that bad not going back, to be honest.