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The new rules on eligibility conform to two guiding principles that opening up the championship was based on ability and not on gender and that we kept the field as strong as possible. I would be absolutely delighted to see a woman qualify for the 2006 Open.

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What we've seen is that he went ahead of the pack very early in his career. There was an element of catching up by other players. He raised the standard. And now, he seems to be stepping forward again. We'll see if the others step up to the challenge.

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I'd been suspicious for a while. We had some players put their wedges in for approval prior to last year's British Open, and we didn't allow some of them to be used.

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The hesitancy is in the detail, not the principal. There has been no resistance to the principal of women playing in the Open if they are qualified for it. We are not dragging our feet. It's just that we never had cause to think about it before.

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We don't believe the women are at the level of the male European Tour player who is taking part in local final qualifying. No woman has made the cut in a men's event, after all. But, if it turns out that women dominate regional qualifying, then we will review the situation.

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I am delighted that a qualification route has now been established for the best women players to gain access to the championship, competing alongside men on the same courses and from the same tees.

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Our championship committee pledged to review entry conditions and to assess how women golfers might compete on equal terms with men for a place in the Open.

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The difficulty we had was establishing equivalence between the men's and women's game.

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I completely disagree. The Road Hole bunker has never been the same from one Open to the next. To say it has been ruined from what it was is completely false. I think that bunker has improved from what it was.

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Because of the history of the Old Course, moving hazards is not the option it would be at many other places. You can't simply move a bunker here and there on The Old Course. All that leaves is to move tees.

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I have to confess we have made a mistake on that, ... We could stand accused of making it totally inconvenient for players competing in America, so we are going to adjust the dates but they will be that week.

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We are restoring rather than changing the course. Modern equipment and the greater athleticism of the game's leading players has led to many of the Old Course hazards being taken out of play.

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We did not open it up to women hoping they would not enter. Having done that, it will be a shame if they do not take advantage of the opportunity. Having said that, it was never our intention to disrupt the women's tours. ... But the option is there.

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I personally hope we will see women enter the championship. We didn't open the event up to them in the hope they wouldn't come. It's a shame if none of them takes up the opportunity.

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We didn't open the event up to women hoping they would not enter but the reverse. Having taken such a step it would be a great shame if the women golfers didn't take advantage of the opportunity. I would be surprised if they were unaware of the changes, given the publicity they received around the globe, but we could write to the individuals concerned reminding them.

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The 18th hole will present a birdie opportunity but as a dog-leg hole with out-of-bounds ever present it will also be a hole for potential disaster.

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We have nine venues that are active for us and the way it seems to work is that the Open comes to St Andrews about every five years and to each of the others about every 10.

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You wait until the forest fire is on your front step before you step up.

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It's been a long time since I've had a really big win like this so I'm ecstatic.

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If it really offends people then we would take it out. In this instance, the wording isn't serving any purpose, so I would support taking it out.

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It is no secret that the Golf Foundation has had its difficulties.

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Mark did some very good turns and Matt put in an awesome ride.

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