Golf societies may form for a number of reasons, including to provide opportunities for members to play more than one course, or to avoid the associated overheads of managing a golf course.
They originally met at "various hostelries", before settling on the Golfers Tavern on the Bruntsfield links in Edinburgh.
As time went by they found themselves playing more frequently at Musselburgh Links.
By 1895 they had become a more traditional golf club, purchasing a course of their own at Barton where they continue to play to this day.
[4] Other golf societies have since cropped up in Scotland, and across the rest of the world.