The Oldest Golf Course In The World Home of Golf TV Episode 57
Posted on 06. Mar, 2012 by Andy Brown in Golf, Golf History
In this episode of HomeofGolf.TV I meet up with Robin McGregor, the Secretary of Musselburgh Old Course Golf Club , who told me about the history of the course and how it had come to pass that Musselburgh Links was officially recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s oldest golf course.
Documentary evidence shows that golf was played on Musselburgh Links since 1450 and Mary, Queen of Scots even reputedly played there in 1567. However, there are no definitive records of this other than the one in 1672 when someone actually recorded play. Robin explained to me that the record comes from an Edinburgh accountant, called Sir John Fowles, who recorded in his account book on that date that he played at Musselburgh Old Course and lost the huge amount of £3 5/–.
