{"id":28858,"date":"2021-01-15T16:56:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T16:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=28858"},"modified":"2023-11-14T17:49:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T17:49:12","slug":"historic-old-course-clubhouse-to-host-female-lockers-for-first-time-after-revamp-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=28858","title":{"rendered":"Historic Old Course clubhouse to host female lockers for first time after revamp approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sc-AnqlK sc-keFjpB uUqOM\">\n<h3>Ambitious plans to transform the Royal and Ancient (R&amp;A) clubhouse at the Old Course in St Andrews have been given the green light, and will see the female locker rooms located within the main clubhouse for the very first time.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2026 Most of the work\u2026. will be carried out underground&#8230;<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2026biggest development at the clubhouse\u2026 since its foundation stone was laid in July 1853&#8230;\u2019<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em>Scottish Construction Now<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>Fife Council\u00a0has given its approval for the revamp which will see the female locker rooms located within the main clubhouse for the very first time.\u00a0Women members currently make use of a locker room around 50 yards away at Forgan House.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Most of the work, which will effectively treble the accommodation space on site, will be carried out underground, &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Landmarks including the Cutty Sark flagpole, which was gifted to the R&amp;A following refurbishment at Gray\u2019s Shipyard in Essex in 1943, and the Playfair Monument, which commemorates the life and works of Lord Lyon Play fair, will also be carefully dismantled, refurbished and repositioned within the new landscape.<\/p>\n<p>The changes represent the biggest development at the clubhouse since its foundation stone was laid in July 1853&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishconstructionnow.com\/article\/historic-old-course-clubhouse-to-host-female-lockers-for-first-time-after-revamp-approved\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambitious plans to transform the Royal and Ancient (R&amp;A) clubhouse at the Old Course in St Andrews have been given the green light, and will see the female locker rooms located within the main clubhouse for the very first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38242,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28858\/revisions\/38242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}