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January 2026 - 'TalkinGolf' Podcast about 'The History of Leith Links' 

Connor T.Lewis recently recorded a podcast with member Mike Tucker focusing on the history around and on  Leith Links. Connor has kindly shared the link with our Society: 

TalkinGolf Episode 147: TGH 147: The History of Leith Links 

(clicking on link above opens the podcast 'Play' page) 

Connor is one of four Host Interviewers of 'TalkinGolf' podcast and is a golf fanatic who is passionate about golf history. Now in its 8th year, the Talkingolf History podcast has huge reach grown from 147 episodes, 

  https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/126762-000-A/en-ecosse-le-golf-a-bien-fait-son-trou/

Film of Royal Dornoch, Leith Links and St Andrews. 

Leith Rules Golf Society 1744 plays in its annual Hickory Open on Leith Links and members outline The 13 Rules of Golf. Film of Leith Links only starts at 3mins 33 secs and runs for 4minutes with French or  German commentaries only. 

The Art of Scottish Golf - published by  Black & White Publishing November 2024

(Photos on pages 6-7 of Leith Links and LRGS Golf Week provided by LRGS members)

The Time Scotland Outlawed Golf

(Describes Leith Links and John Rattray from 4mins 40secs )

Leith Links featuring the John Rattray Statue

(Leith Rules Golf Society Hickory Open from 2mins 14secs) 

'The home of golf and John Rattray, Leith Links'

Original Rules of Golf

A documentary film by Leith Society Golf Society to raise funds for the John Rattray statue (and associated 3 plinths and precinct area) and to record the Statue unveiling ceremoney in October 2019. It also helps fulfill the single Aim of the Society - 

To increase recognition of Leith Links as the home of the World's earliest-recorded Rules of Golf and one of the Game's prominent early locations.