Like those ancient rules governing the wearing of white after Labor Day, coats were something you were once supposed to buy in fall.
But Peter Dawson of the Royal and Ancient, the governing body of golf in Europe, took exception to criticism about Muirfield's lack of a female member during a news conference today.
Three majors in 13 months is difficult to ignore, even for the careful and systematic thinkers at the Royal and Ancient, which governs golf in much of the world and oversees the event.
Payne is also a member of the R&A, an offshoot of the Royal and Ancient that governs the rules of golf outside the US and Mexico.
Woods said he had discussed his views on the subject with Peter Dawson, the leader of the Royal and Ancient, golf's governing body outside the United States and Mexico.
"I don't think it's something that's going to be in any way imminent, but it's certainly something we'll have a look at again in view of the success of the golfers from that part of the world," said Peter Dawson, chief executive of the Royal and Ancient, golf's governing body in much of the world.
The minting of coins, the establishment of laws governing ancient forests, the maintenance of local roads, the development of cursive script all interest Ackroyd, as do the dining habits of lords and peasants and the travels of the mendicant friars who "turned English preaching into a folk art".
"Clean" and "unclean" refer to ancient Jewish customs governing the suitability of certain types of animals for eating and sacrifice.
Countless judicial decisions and legislative enactments have relied on the ancient proposition that a governing majority's belief that certain sexual behavior is "immoral and unacceptable" constitutes a rational basis for regulation.
The question about the relative importance of native environmental conditions or ancient evolutionary background in governing an organismal trait is a classic question in ecology.
