Aberdour Golf Club

Aberdour Golf Club was founded in 1896 on a nine-hole course designed by Willie Park of Musselburgh, on land rented from Couston Farm at £50 a year while the farmer kept grazing rights for his sheep. During the Second World War the course was reduced to ten holes by wartime gun emplacements, with members playing the first nine twice to complete a round, before significant expansion in the 1970s with the purchase of Charleshill. Now with over 800 members and around 3,000 visitors a year, the club reached full gender parity in membership by 1998 and remains one of Fife's characterful smaller clubs.