The earliest records we have are of the establishment of the Edinburgh

Institution Golf Club. The Edinburgh Institution later became Melville

College

 

At a meeting on 19th October 1887, in 8 Queen Street  Edinburgh, 

" it  was unanimously agreed to form a Former Pupils Golf Club to be called

  The Edinburgh Institution Golf Club "

 

It is interesting to note that the Captain elected at that meeting was W.

Gibson Bloxsom who was also the first Captain of Murrayfield Golf Club. 

 

 

The Stewart's FP Golf Club came into existence about 1892, since the

first minute book has a report of the Annual General Meeting of 1893.

This was at a time when the athletic cult of the late 19th Century had

nurtured the formation of the Stewart's College Athletic Club in 1886.

This omnibus club first organised cricket, football, tennis, and cycling

for pupils and FPs, and later it encouraged the formation of the Golf

Club.

 

It was a small club of twelve members at first, and despite the fact that

the school did not wish to encourage this enemy of cricket and the

individualism that golf implied, the club grew very quickly.  By 1906

it had ninety members, twenty of whom were scratch players. In 1907

J. Douglas Brown won the Irish Open, and in 1911 and 1912 the Club

won the Evening Dispatch Trophy.