Leith
Rules Golf Society |
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A brief history of golf on Leith Links |
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Leith Links
has been home to some of the world's most colourful golfing
characters of the past: Mary, Queen of Scots probably played here, and it
is known that James VII and Charles I enjoyed games at Leith. |
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Detail from etching showing King Charles I playing golf on Leith Links and reading of the Irish Rebellion. |
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The first
known international
foursome, |
![]() The Society's logo derives from this picture. |
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![]() A golf tournament on Leith Links in 1867. |
![]() Also from 1867, an etching showing golf on Leith Links. |
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![]() In July 2002 the Open Championship was held at Muirfield and from 13th to 22nd July the celebrations returned home, to where it all started. At the Leith Rules Golf event, over 400 people from around the world played five holes on the Links, using period equipment, walking in the footsteps of those early golfers. Archie Baird, a member of Muirfield and an eminent local golf historian, follows in the sartorial footsteps of John Taylor. |
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