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Lundin Ladies Golf Club

12/11/2013

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Following on from yesterday's post, this 1990 view of the Lundin Ladies club house also shows some of the old Lundin Mill Farm buildings to the left (and the telephone exchange building beyond on the Cupar Road).  Thought to be the oldest ladies golf club in the world, the Lundin Ladies was formally constituted in 1891.  However, the year before, on 26 August 1890, the Dundee Courier reported under the headline "New Golf Green at Largo" that: 

"Yesterday morning a ladies golf course was opened at Lundin Links.  The course has been laid out by Mr Glover of the Epping Forest Club, London and is situated to the east of the Lundin and Leven links course.  There are twenty holes in the new course, and in the forenoon a large number of ladies engaged in a game."
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On Thursday 29 July 1897, the Lundin Ladies Golf Clubhouse was opened by Lady Gilmour in front of a large crowd.  The next day the Dundee Courier listed many of those present, described the speeches given and gave the results of the competitions subsequently played that day.  On 19 April 1897, the Courier had run the pictured sketch of the new clubhouse.  The features of the building were described (general room, dressing room, and the usual offices) and the "spacious verandah" was picked out as the "outstanding feature".  
Mr Gillespie of St Andrews was named as the architect.  This would have been James Ross Gillespie (1854-1914) whose profile on the Dictionary of Scottish Architects suggests that his practice was involved in a number of developments in Lundin Links, including the Post Office, D.M. Patrick's golf club makers house and workshop, and the Bowling and Tennis Club buildings.  See http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=100030

Over the next decade or so the ladies course shifted size and location using land next to the Lundin Golf Club.  However, in 1908, such was the popularity of golf in the area, that the Lundin and Leven courses were reconfigured and the Ladies moved to the Standing Stanes Park and adjoining fields.  The clubhouse was moved to its present location and a new nine-hole course laid out by James Braid.  The new course was officially opened on 15 April 1910.  For further detail and images see: http://www.lundinladiesgolfclub.co.uk/history.asp

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