Psychologist Christopher Kilmartin studies how men’s roles and attitudes are evolving in a world that, from the classroom to the boardroom, is becoming more inclusive of women. But one place that has proved resistant to the trend, he said, is the golf course.

“There’s a lot of misogyny,” said Kilmartin, a golf enthusiast who teaches at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia. “If a guy has a 30-foot putt and leaves it short, someone might say, ‘You must have gotten your putter caught in your skirt.’”

Yet even among the sand traps and doglegs, things are changing. The most visible sign came last week when Butler National Golf Club, a men-only country club in Oak Brook, indicated that it is studying whether to allow women to join.

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