Ashleigh Wilson, 31, is the Columbia, S.C., club’s first black member in its 90-year history. The club has been the recipient of negative publicity for not having any African-American members, including in January when Governor Henry McMaster refused to give up his membership to the then-whites-only club. After years of sporadic controversy over its 90-year…

The former President and his wife have been invited to join Woodmont CC in Rockville, Md. as “special members,” in an attempt to quell the dispute over whether they should be excluded because of the policies toward Israel that were instituted by his Adminstration. In South Carolina, Henry McMaster, expected to succeed Nikki Haley as Governor, came under fire for belonging to The Forest Lake Club of Columbia, S.C.