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Royal Perth Golfing Society

Royal Perth Golfing Society

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The Royal Perth Golfing Society, or its full name of The Royal Perth Golfing Society & County and City Club, is a golfing and private members club in Perth, Scotland, with premises overlooking the North Inch.

History

The Perth Golfing Society was formed in 1824.

In 1833 King William IV granted the Society his Royal Patronage. This was the very first grant of royal patronage to a Golfing Society, notably a year before The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, which is often wrongly presumed to be the first. There are now over 70 clubs throughout the world entitled to use the name 'Royal' and Perth is proud to be the oldest.

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Further reading

  • Thomas Duncan Miller (1935). The History of the Royal Perth Golfing Society; a Century of Golf in Scotland: With a Selection of the Golf Verses (hitherto Unpublished) by the Late Neil Fergusson Blair : Compiled at the Request of the Council of the Society. Munro Press.

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