“Do you play golf?”

I have a stock answer to this. “No”, I reply in mock-surprise, “I quite like women”. This light-hearted response seems to have acquired a more than a grain of truth this week with the decision of Muirfield Golf Club not to admit women members. Or ‘lady golfers’ as they apparently call them. I don’t play golf. Never have. It’s not the game I despise as much as the petty suburban snobbery, habitually displayed by golf clubs and their ghastly members. Though if Muirfield insist on banning women, let them. Why any woman would want to join such a horrible institution is beyond me. If I were a woman, I wouldn’t play there now if they paid me. Especially as this is what the check-trousered misogynists probably dance to in the clubhouse.