1892 – first 18-hole course

 
The growth in membership increased the club’s revenues and in May 1892, eighteen months after opening the Ferryhills course, the Club leased a further stretch of land from Mr Will and expanded the course to eighteen holes.

This illustration is from the Dunfermline Press, May 21st 1892. You can read the full article HERE

and the following is from the Edinburgh Evening News of May 11th 1892.

Note that this illustration has NORTH at the bottom of the diagram.

HERE is the full article from the Edinburgh Evening News

The new course used part of the land from the original 9-hole course, but changed the layout, and added new fields to the south and north-east of Cruicks House.

Here is the location and layout of the 1892 18-hole course

You can compare it to the original nine hole course, and later 18-hole courses on the Golf Course Maps page.

One of the reasons for the success of the Ferryhills course was its proximity to North Queensferry Railway Station.

The North British Railway Company were persuaded to offer special Golfers Railway Concessions. This scheme in various forms ran until the 1920s.