Leith Rules Golf Society
The aim of the Society is to increase the recognition of Leith Links as the home of the earliest recorded rules of golf and one of the game's prominent early locations



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Match versus Musselburgh Old Course Golf club

The Society records their first-ever victory against our great friends at Musselburgh [more]

New MOCGC website 
Musselburgh have recently launched a new website, which can be found in our Links section, or directly here.

Summer Events
Planning is well underway for our events, starting with our presence at the Leith Festival on Saturday 7th June and continuing with our hickory events from 2nd to 5th July, culminating in the Hickory Open on the 5th.

Details will appear here as soon as they are finalised.  







 
7th March 2008

As well as our celebration of the actual date of the signing of the original rules in our clubhouse at Leith Links, we were entertained by a talk on the 2007 Hickory "Ryder Cup" and the showing of a very special piece of golfing memorabilia [more] 

That day was also an incredible milestone for one of our members [more]

Background information on the Society ?
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Want to become a member of the society ?
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Stage play will feature our history !

Lorna Moon, one of our committee members, is writing a play around the times of the creation of the first rules in 1744. [more]

Newsletters 

We now have 2 editions of our  newsletter "The Gowffer's Tattle" available [more]
  The first rules of golf created by the golfers at Leith in 1744 tell us something about the challenges faced by these early golfers and the society they lived in. View them here. Society commemorative tie
We now have available a special society tie. [more]
  An updated brochure about the Society 
is available. Download it here
(Adobe PDF format - 932KB) or contact us for a copy if the file is too large for your connection.