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Radio 5 Live,03 Aug 2022,44 mins

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Iain Carter is joined by Emma Ballard from Women and Golf ahead of an historic AIG Women鈥檚 Open to be held at Muirfield. It鈥檚 as the club holds its first ever women鈥檚 event since it abolished its controversial men-only members rule in 2017. The 2018 Women鈥檚 Open champion Georgia Hall joins the pod to talk about what it means to her to play at Muirfield and how she thinks more progress can be made for women鈥檚 golf. The R&A chief exec Martin Slumbers tells us about the rise in the prize purse for the Women鈥檚 Open and how equal prize money with The Open has to be the goal for the sport. You鈥檒l also hear about what is being done to get more women into golf, how Muirfield has changed as a club in the past five years and why it鈥檚 a challenge to get more female golf fans to follow the women鈥檚 tour.

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