JUST what is this country coming to with its ever-more baffling diktats?

I’ve just read, “BBC apologised for ‘sexist’ Open gaffe by Allis”. American golfer Zach Johnson was lining up a putt which could, if he was successful, win him £1.15 million.

The camera panned to Johnson’s wife Kim whom Allis described as, anxiously thinking, “if this goes in, I get new kitchen”.

Viewers complained that the remark showed the prevalence of casual sexism.

Leslie Anne Wade, manager and partner of former Open winner Sir Nick Faldo, led the criticism by writing on Twitter: “Can’t believe he can say this. It’s sexist.”

What on earth is sexist about such an innocuous remark?

Unless it is no longer admissible to couple “kitchen” and “women” as it, supposedly, “tars them with the brush of being domiciled in the kitchen”.

Any woman (or man) would be delighted to be able to have the sort of kitchen a part of £1.15 million would allow.

Brits used to be renowned for their sense of humour. The way Peter Allis’ remark was twisted by out-and-out feminists shows this to be no longer so.

Philip Roe, Roman Avenue South, Stamford Bridge

 

BACK in the mid-80s a friend and I were volunteer ball-spotting stewards at the Benson & Hedges golf tournament when it was still held at Fulford Golf Club.

When golfer Carl Mason’s drive landed in a thicket on one hole, we were unable to find it and he was forced to tee off again, losing two shots in the process.

As the two of us were laughing at our ineptitude while walking down the next fairway, a woman barged between us shouting: “It may be funny to you, but that’s just cost me my new kitchen!”

Mrs Mason relented when her husband shortly holed a bunker shot for an eagle.

Rory Mulvihill, Palmes Close, Naburn