History
THE ORIGINS OF THE STEWART'S MELVILLE F.P. GOLF CLUB
The earliest records we have are of the establishment of the Edinburgh Institution Golf Club. The Edinburgh Institution later became Melville College.
At a meeting on 19 October 1887, held at 8 Queen Street, Edinburgh:
"... it was unanimously agreed to form a Former Pupils Golf Club to be called The Edinburgh Institution Golf Club".
The Captain elected at that meeting was W. Gibson Bloxsom, who was also the first Captain of Murrayfield Golf Club.
The Daniel Stewart's F.P. Golf Club was established around 1892, as the first minute book has a report of the Annual General Meeting of 1893.
This was at a time when the athletic cult of the late-nineteenth century had nurtured the formation of the Stewart's College Athletic Club in 1886. This omnibus club first organised cricket, football, tennis, and cycling for pupils and former pupils, and later it encouraged the formation of the Golf Club.
It was a small club of only twelve members at first but, despite the fact that the School did not wish to encourage an 'enemy of cricket' nor the individualism that golf was considered to promote, the Club grew very quickly. By 1906 it had ninety members, twenty of whom were scratch players. In 1907, J. Douglas Brown won the Irish Open, and in 1911 and 1912 the Club won the Evening Dispatch Trophy.
Bobby Cruickshank
2019 was the 125th anniversary of the birth of Daniel Stewart's College's most illustrious golfing former pupil, Robert (Bobby) Cruickshank.
Originally from Grantown-on-Spey, Bobby Cruickshank became a professional golfer in the United States in 1921. He had considerable success on the professional circuit in America, including being runner-up in the 1923 and 1932 US Opens to Bobby Jones and Gene Sarazen respectively.
Further details of Bobby Cruickshank's life and career can be found here:
