Shane Liptrot, 26, repeatedly knocked on his victim's door, alerting the young woman in the early hours of June 7 last year.

She was known for her lavish parties and her marriage to one of the richest men in San Francisco. After he left her, she found a new purpose: visiting world leaders to plead for peace.

Once a symbol of calm and civility, elite US golf is now grappling with sex scandals, alcohol-fueled excess, rowdy crowds, social-media exhibitionism and a bitter civil war over money.

Founded in 1876 for freed Blacks denied access to traditional Episcopal seminaries, Cummins Memorial Theological Seminary ...