Leith Links
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Leith Links is the principal open space within Leith, the docks district of Edinburgh, Scotland. This public park is divided by a road into two main areas, a western section and an eastern section, bo
Leith Links looking south towards Arthur's Seat
Edinburgh Mela in 2012
The earthwork known as "Giant's Brae", on Leith Links
Memorial plaque to 79 plague victims removed from Leith Links in 2017 and buried in Rosebank Cemetery in 2018
History of golf
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The origins of golf are unclear and much debated. However, it is generally accepted that modern golf developed in Scotland from the Middle Ages onwards. The game did not find international popularity
Leith Links
…challenged Lt Swift of Lord Cardigan's Regiment to a duel (with swords) on Leith Links. Elphinstone mortally wounded Swift. Leith Links is famous in the history of golf. Records show a 5-hole golf course which was typically played round twice. It had been played for a long time up until shortly before 1824, and was…
The MacDonald boys playing golf by 18th-century portrait painter Jeremiah Davison
This scene in the margins of a late 13th-century manuscript depicts a game with clubs and a ball, possibly the game of kolf referred to by Jacob van Maerlant. It is considered to be the earliest known depiction of a golf-like game. (Bruges Public Library, Ms. 251 f. 149r)
The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews
Pub sign on the Golf Tavern on Bruntsfield Links, 2011