MUIRFIELD Golf Club has yet to admit any women members, a year after voting to allow females to join for the first time in its history.

The club voted in favour of change in March last year in a second ballot.

It was told it would no longer be considered as an Open Championship course after an earlier vote narrowly failed to achieve the two-thirds majority required. However, the alteration to the make-up of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, which owns and runs the course, has yet to happen.

It is understood it could take up to another two years before the first female member joins Muirfield. The club said in a statement: “We are very pleased to say we have had a number of women proposed as members and the process is well under way.”

Club captain Henry Fairweather said after the vote that fast-tracking women was not an option.

He said: “Our members were quite clear they wanted women to be treated, not in any artificial way, but to go through the same admissions process as men.”