The Royal Burgess Golfing Society

Claiming instituted status in 1735, the Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh is reputed to be the oldest golf club in the world, its members having played originally on Bruntsfield Links before relocating, like their near neighbours at Bruntsfield, first to Musselburgh and then, in the 1890s, to the present Barnton site. The parkland course there was laid out by Old Tom Morris and Willie Park Jnr with later revisions by James Braid, and the club was granted its royal title by King George V in 1929.