Mungo Park (22 October 1836 – 19 June 1904) was a member of a famous family of Scottish golfers.

[1] He was born 22 October 1836 to farm labourer and occasional golfer[2] James Park (1797–1873) and his wife Euphemia (née Kerr; 1806–1860), at Quarry Houses in Musselburgh, which was to become one of the three towns that shared hosting responsibilities for The Open Championship through the 1870s and 1880s.

[citation needed] After his career as a seaman concluded he returned to his home town in the early 1870s and won the 1874 Open Championship on the Musselburgh Links.

[3] He spent his later life working as a teacher, golf course designer and clubmaker.

[6] Park died of pernicious anemia in the Inveresk poorhouse, aged 67.