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[scotianostra]

7th March 1744 saw The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers hold their first meeting on Leith Links.

The Gentlemen Golfers of Leith Links asked Edinburgh town council for a prize for an annual golf competition.  The golfers had been jealous of the local archers, who received a silver arrow from the town .council for a competition.

The Edinburgh town council presented the golfers with a silver golf club, to be played for, over Leith Links.  This was on the understanding that The Gentlemen Golfers of Leith Links set down rules that would govern the game of golf.

A committee of the Gentlemen Golfers of Edinburgh drafted the first 13 rules of golf to compete for a silver golf club, presented by the City of Edinburgh, over Leith Links. John Rattray, a physician and champion archer, was the first winner and was declared 'Captain of the Golf' on 2nd April 1744. The men were;

John Rattray (the winner) Hew Dalrymple, Robert Biggar, James Gordon, James Carmichael, Hon James Leslie, Richard Cockburn, George Suttie, William Crosse, James Veith, and David Dalrymple 

The event is commemorated in a plaque on the cairn on Leith Links. This was the first known organised golfing competition of any golf club in the world.

It was on the 7 March 1744 that The Gentlemen Golfers of Leith Links changed their name to the ‘Company of Edinburgh Golfers’. This group of golfers created the first 13 rules of golf.  

John Rattray, who won the first annual competition, signed off these rules, as captain. The ‘Company of Edinburgh Golfers’ later became the ‘Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers’ and now reside at Muirfield in East Lothian, Scotland.

The fact that rules were drawn up was very important for the development of the game. It ensured regulation and set the benchmark for the sport moving forward.  

These rules formed the basis of the modern game and led to Scotland being viewed as the ancestral Home of Golf.

The original cairn which commemorates Leith Links as the Home of Golf, still lies in The Links close to where a recent statue of Rattray now stands. Three stoma plinths were also added near there with a lot of the history on plaques.

The Gentlemen Golfers built a clubhouse at Leith in 1768. Until then, they usually met in a tavern called Luckie Clephan's, on Kirkgate, now demolished, near the foot of Leith Walk, the clubhouse is long gone, the Leith Academy Secondary School building now stands there. Overcrowding at the Links forced a move out of Edinburgh.

Known by various names, the Gentlemen Golfers became 'The Honourable, the Edinburgh Company of Golfers' in 1800. Subsequently, this was streamlined to the present 'Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers'.

In 1865 they built a new clubhouse in Links Place at Musselburgh, now a children's nursery at 6 Balcarres Road. 

Soon overcrowding at Musselburgh, as at Leith, forced Honourable Company to move again, settling on another racecourse, further down the coast, the site of the East Lothian horse races on the Hundred Acres Park owned by the Rt Hon Nisbet Hamilton. This was the Muirfield course, designed by Old Tom Morris.  The first 16 holes, built by 'hand and horse', were opened on 3rd May 1891, with the final two holes added in December of the same year. The Open championship moved with them and is still held there from time to time, although, since 1919 the Hon Company have no longer been involved in its management.

The geographical term, The Home of Golf, will always be associated with Scotland, in the eyes of the golfing world.  However, in Scotland, at its golfing core, Leith Links is the place where the term finds its origin, in the modern-day game.

#scotland #scottish #sport #golfer #leith links #competition #history #sporting history #muirfield #edinburgh #leith #east lothian

[thenewgentlemangolfer]

In der aktuellen Ausgabe der Perfect Eagle gehts um das Thema Destination. Ich durfte einmal mehr das Intro besteuern, eine Reiseempfehlung, einen Text über Clubhäuser und natürlich wieder eine Buchseite. Bitteschön. @perfecteaglegolf #golfwriter #golfstagram #instagolf #destination #standrews #homeofgolf #augustanational #royalbirkdale #medinah #muirfield #thehills #palmaresgolf #bencrenshaw (hier: Stuttgarter Golf-Club Solitude) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjsovolNzW3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[onlineantiques]

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[quisqueyanews]

Buhai lo borda el penúltimo día y apunta en Muirfield a su primer 'major'

Buhai lo borda el penúltimo día y apunta en Muirfield a su primer 'major'

06/08/2022 a las 22:09 CEST La sudafricana firmó hasta ocho birdies en una ronda en la que tan sólo echó un borrón en forma de bogey en el hoyo 18 A falta de un día, tiene cinco golpes de ventaja sobre la japonesa Hinako Shibuno y la surcoreana Chun In-gee La sudafricana Ashleigh Ann Buhai bordó el juego este sábado en la tercera jornada del Open Británico femenino, en la que firmó una tarjeta…

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#buhai #Golf #major #Muirfield

[untilthenexttee]

In Gee Chun Leads Through 36 holes at Muirfield

In Gee Chun Leads Through 36 holes at Muirfield

Yet again, In Gee Chun is making her presence known at a major championship. Chun, who won the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship at Congressional Country Club in June, carded a 5-under 66 on Friday at the AIG Women’s Open and vaulted to the top of the leaderboard. Her six birdies included a 20-footer that hung up on the lip at No. 13, sitting there for a few seconds before falling in, much to the…

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[oldshowbiz]

Muirfield and 5th in the Hancock Park district of Los Angeles still looks as it did in an episode of Baretta 47 years ago.

#Larchmont Blvd #Hancock Park #los angeles #filming location #muirfield rd

[golfwhiskeyandsheepohmy]

Greywalls

#The Greywalls hotel adjacent to Muirfield golf course in Gullane. VERY traditional.

[historycompany]

Women's golf 125 years ago

Women’s golf 125 years ago

Ready for the tee-off, 1897 Gullane is currently hosting the 2022 Women’s Open. These are the competitors for the Ladies Open in 1897. They’re gathered outside the Old Clubhouse – since extended and now a very fine pub. Women’s golf was in the ascendancy then and was largely for the well-to-do middle and aristocratic classes. This was the first championship in Scotland hosted by the Ladies…

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#Gullane #Muirfield. #North Berwick #women golfers #women&039;s open #women&039;s history

[dispelzine]

Signs / South Muirfield Road, Los Angeles, California.

#rephotography #architecture #signs #americana #los angeles

[scotianostra]

On March 7th 1744, the world's first golf club was founded in Edinburgh.

Originally called The Gentlemen Golfers of Leith, this is one of the world’s oldest golfing societies, founded in 1744 by a group of men who played on a five-hole course at Leith, which wasn't officially part of Edinburgh back then.

In 1795 the Club applied to the Lord Provost, the Magistrates and Council of the City of Edinburgh for a Charter. This was granted on March 26th 1800 together with a Seal of Clause under the new title of 'The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers'.

In that year the group petitioned the city officials of Edinburgh for a silver club to be awarded to the winner of a golf competition. It further established the earliest known rules of the game, a code of 13 articles recorded in its first minute book. They were adopted almost without change in 1754 by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, later to become the governing body for the sport here.

The Honourable Company later transferred its activities farther east to the town of Musselburgh and then to the Muirfield course, with which it has been associated in modern times. The club only allowed men to join until it voted to accept female members in 2017.

The original rules of the game which were;

You must Tee your Ball within a Club's length of the Hole.

Your Tee must be upon the Ground.

You are not to change the Ball which you Strike off the Tee.

You are not to remove Stones, Bones, or any Break Club for the sake of playing your Ball except upon the fair Green, and that only within a Club's length of your Ball.

If your Ball come among watter, or any wattery filth, you are at liberty to take out your Ball & bringing it behind the hazard, and Teeing it, you may play it with any Club and allow your Adversary a Stroke for so getting out your Ball.

If your Balls be found any where touching one another, You are to lift the first Ball, till you play the last.

At Holing, you are to play your Ball honestly for the Hole, and not to play upon your Adversary's Ball not lying in your way to the Hole.

If you should lose your Ball by its being taken up, or any other way, you are to go back to the Spot where you struck last, & drop another Ball and allow your Adversary a Stroke for the misfortune.

No man at Holing his Ball is to be allowed to mark his way to the Hole with his club or anything else.

If a Ball be stopp'd by any person, Horse, Dog. or anything else, The Ball so stopp'd must be play’d where it lyes.

If you draw your Club in order to StrIke, & proceed so far in the Stroke as to be bringing down your Club; if then your Club shall break, in any way, it is to be Accounted a Stroke.

He whose Ball lyes farthest from the Hole is obliged to play first.

Neither Trench, Ditch or Dyke made for the preservation of the Links, or the Scholars' Holes or the Soldiers' Lines, shall be accounted a Hazard, But the Ball is to be taken out, Teed, and played with any Iron Club.

The first competition was won by John Rattray, an Edinburgh surgeon – but only 12 people entered, all locals, and only 10 played. Open entry stopped in 1764 when it was limited to members of the Honourable Company.

When the Society of St Andrews Golfers wrote their version in 1754 only one change occurred – a ball in "watery filth" at Edinburgh must be teed and at St Andrews it was to be dropped.

Rule XIII mentions 'Scholars holes' and 'Soldiers lines'. There were "Scholars' bunkers" in St Andrews but there were no "Soldiers' lines"

If you are familiar with the game of golf you will see that the above rules are still the bones of the game. But situations arose which were not covered and modifications had to be made.

The spellings in the rules are from the original note book as seen in the second pic.

#scotland #scottish #history #edinburgh #sportimg history #golf

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Here’s a guy’s condo, decorated in a vehicle theme. It’s in Elgin, Illinois and has 1 bd. and 2 baths. $159K. The thing is, you don’t get the decor with it.

Have you ever seen a dune buggy in the living room of a condo? Bikes  suspended from the ceiling also decorate the perimeter of the room.

The kitchen features only a few those cheap Euro cabinets, but the owner added a toolbox.

The dining room features a pinball machine and a gas pump. 

The single bd. is nice.

It has a walk-in closet and an en suite.

French doors in the living room open to the garage. He must’ve installed these doors so he can admire his vehicles.

I would imagine that the lift doesn’t convey.

Sliders in the dining room open to a small patio.

https://www.redfin.com/IL/Elgin/2047-Muirfield-Cir-60123/home/17003523

#car decor #bachelor pads #modern condo construction #long post

[golftraveller57]

never any easy approach

@ Muirfield Golf Course, Gullane

#golf #golfing #golf course #scotland #linkscourse #sports #travel #golftraveller57

[onlineantiques]

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[jwalmsley4]

I popped back to Scotland for some finishing touches at the AIG Women's Open last month. I didn't take many WIP snaps, But I did find a flower wall to pose in front of 😝 🌸 Luv me dem fleury wols aye dew ✌🏻 📸 courtesy of @lloyd7 #setbuilding #setbuilder #carpentry #install #flowerwall #aigwo #womensopen #fridayfeeling #iamnotagolfer #jw4 (at Muirfield Golf Club, Edinburgh) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChcMAkhIU1T/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[maximumwobblerbanditdonut]

A journey through golf⛳

Genesis Scottish Open 2022 was at The Renaissance Club in East Lothian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 keeping good company next door to Muirfield.

Sandwiched between Muirfield and Archerfield, the Renaissance Club is within a few minutes of other such illustrious names as North Berwick, Gullane and Luffness. In fact, there are no fewer than 20 courses within a 15-minute drive.

@pinkblizzardgladiator I think you like golf⛳ If you haven't seen the latest 'Genesis Scottish Open 2022', watch this journey through golf.

#GenesisScottishOpen2022 #RenaissanceClub #EastLothian #golf

[historycompany]

Women's golf 125 years ago

Women’s golf 125 years ago

Ready for the tee-off, 1897 Gullane is currently hosting the 2022 Women’s Open. These are the competitors for the Ladies Open in 1897. They’re gathered outside the Old Clubhouse – since extended and now a very fine pub. Women’s golf was in the ascendancy then and was largely for the well-to-do middle and aristocratic classes. This was the first championship in Scotland hosted by the Ladies…

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#Gullane #Muirfield. #North Berwick #women golfers #women&039;s open #women&039;s history