Women & Girls membership guidance notes
A significant amount of work has been done at national and local level to address some of the challenges of membership inequality within golf clubs, but Scottish Golf believes more needs to be done, including further cultural change, to close the gap between male and female membership numbers.
This paper aims to outline what more can be done by the governing body and by clubs. It seeks to recommend key principles and describe what 'good' might look like for a golf club.
In some cases, what is advocated goes beyond the minimum requirements of the law but at all times, to the best of our knowledge, it is compliant with the law.
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