HISTORY

The New Golf Club

When the club's founders bestowed this motto on the club in 1902 it was a period in history not dissimilar to today.

It was at a time of rapid change in golf at St Andrews, as it was throughout the world. Great clubs with great players were emerging. Clubs were becoming social centres; bars and restaurants were becoming integral facilities; and the camaraderie of the foursome was spreading to the billiards table and the card room.

Some twelve old established clubs came together, when, through a series of debentures, No3 Gibson Place was purchased and the townspeople finally had a clubhouse. Inevitably, it became known as the New Club. From that time, no decade has passed without some new development of the club in structure, facilities or play. Only the Sanctum Sanctorum, the member's lounge, where old Tom Morris took his final fateful steps, remains unchanged, and so it will forever remain.

The improved dining facilities overlooking the Links with an extended adjacent mixed lounge, has doubled for dinner-dancing and the increasingly popular winter evening carpet bowls. The old dining room is free as a card room for mixed bridge and for the many town societies that regularly use the Club as a meeting place.

Although development has been ever ongoing, the ambience and the character of the club has remained largely unchanged. Although there is an extensive oversees and country membership, the nucleus remains within the professionals and business people of the town, the tradespeople and the dons of the university: men "from a' the airtes" that enjoy good fellowship through "the golf".

The Secretary
New Golf Club
3-5 Gibson Place
St Andrews
Fife KY16 9JE

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