"Constitutionally and physically women are unfitted for golf. They will never last through two rounds of a long course in a day. Nor can they ever hope to defy the wind and weather encountered on our best links even in spring and summer. Temperamentally, the strain will be too great for them. THE FIRST LADIES' CHAMPIONSHIP WILL BE THE LAST, unless I and others are greatly mistaken. The LGU seems scarcely worthwhile..." Horace Hutchison, 1893
Amateur Champion and Captain of the R&A had a very poor response to the committee of the Ladies Golf Union when they wrote to him for advice on running their Championship. This view did not deter the women, in fact it spurred them into action and led to the pioneering spirit that created a legacy which is still felt today. Using imagery from the LGU photography albums and objects from the Women Golfers' Museum collections, Hannah Fleming, Learning & Access Curator of the R&A World Golf Museum, will showcase the development of the women's game from the first reference to women playing golf in 1738 until Joyce Wethered's victory in St. Andrews in 1929.
