At a meeting in the golf club on Tuesday 30th October 2018, the Ladies Branch of Portarlington Golf Club voted to accept the proposal put to it for the formation of a single governing body for golf in Ireland (Golf Ireland) and the consequent abolition of the Irish Ladies Golf Union. The two votes of Portarlington Ladies Branch will now be brought to an E.G.M. of the I.L.G.U.  in the Moran’s Red Cow Hotel on Saturday the 19th January 2019 when all ladies clubs will vote on the proposal.