Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has reacted strongly at the decision by Muirfield not to allow women members and remain an ‘all-male’ club.

This website has already reported also on Muirfield being banned by the R & A in hosting any future Open Championships until such time they allow women members.

However here is Sturgeon’s response and only adding to the outrage.

Scotland First Minister Nicola Sturgeon outraged by Muirfield vote.

“This is 2016 and the decision is simply indefensible,” he said.

“I’m left wondering how Mary Stuart might respond to the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers. I would like to think the six-foot tall sportswoman and Amazonian warrior would have shouldered her bag and stormed the Muirfield tee boxes in an act of outright defiance.

“After all, look at how she handled Darnely’s dispatch.”

Well done, First Minister.