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Making some history at the Royal and Ancient - New Female R&A members Claire Dowling/Renee Powell

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http://www.independent.ie/sport/golf/making-some-history-at-the-royal-and-ancient-31030966.html

A look into the lives of two new members of the R&A; GC.

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As it happens, Claire Dowling has done her own share of trailblazing. During the 1990s, as a representative of the Ladies' Golf Union, she became the first woman to sit on the R and A's Amateur Status Committee. And when Darren Clarke captured the Open Championship at Royal St George's four years ago, she became only the second woman to act as an on-course referee.

The first was England's Elizabeth Earnshaw, a pioneer on handicapping, who refereed at the 1995 Open at St Andrews and became the first British woman to referee at the US Masters, two years later. Regarding her Open experience, Ms Earnshaw recalled: "The press went bananas. They didn't want to know about the rules: they wanted to know if I'd be allowed in the R and A clubhouse at St Andrews. And for the record, the answer is yes. The members were very hospitable."

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