The Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh

[1] The club enjoys a parkland course located in Barnton, Edinburgh that was designed initially by Tom Morris and Willie Park Jnr, with subsequent revisions by James Braid.

A motion made in 1791 that would have decreed "no gentleman shall be admitted a member of the Club unless he first becomes a Burgess and a Freeman of Edinburgh" was in fact overwhelmingly rejected.

The links had been cleared of oak forest and gifted to the city, probably starting with David I, for the prescriptive use of the people of Edinburgh.

One proposed theory for the absence of early records is due to a probable foundational association with freemasonry, and the freemasons nature of secrecy.

Obtaining the seal of cause was largely down to the efforts of William Ranken, His Majesty's Tailor for Scotland and convener of the Incorporated Trades.

Though the golfers are no longer expected to play at competitions in the uniform, a version of it is still worn by members during the annual dinner and other formal events.