Golf has been played on Earlsferry Links, possibly as early as the 15 th century as it was deemed necessary for an Act of Parliament to be passed in 1471 banning the game! However some 100 years later a royal charter in 1589 affirmed the “ancient servitude right of golf” for the villagers over the Links. The first Club The Elie and Earlsferry Golf Club was formed in 1832. However in order to provide permanent facilities a clubhouse or what was known as a golf house was built in 1875, and the opportunity was taken to use this name to form a new club in the same year, The Golf House Club. By 1896 more land had been leased enabling an 18 hole course to be laid out, which bar a few minor alterations is the course played today.

One of the many joys of golf, is the variety and vagaries of different clubs and courses. If there are a league of idiosyncratic clubs then the Golf House Club would be in with the best of them. The name for a start, gives you a taste for what is to come. A number of clubs have salvaged masts from former sailing ships, from which they hang their flag, but here thay have gone for something nautically different - 30ft of periscope from HMS Excalibur. Its presence by the first tee is to ensure the way is clear down the first, as there is a blind tee shot over a hill some 50 yards from the tee. The thought of a blind tee shot off the first tee would to many be unthinkable, not here; in fact this is the first of many blind shots round a course that has no par 5s and only 2 par 3s. It might be relatively short at 6273 yards but make no mistake, this is a true test of golf and a very enjoyable one at that