1921 – the club seeks new land

 
Even before the ink was dry on the 1921 Admiralty lease, the quarry workings were clearly a threat to the northern part of the course, and in April 1921 the club made enquiries about leasing new land to the west of the 6th Green and the south of the 17th Green.

This initial search for new land was not fruitful; the land was owned by the Admiralty who refused negotiate its lease.

The search continued, and by September 1921, outline agreement had been reached with Lord Elgin about two separate parcels of land.

One, of 20 acres, consisted of Young’s Neuk, Gallow Bank, and a field adjoining Jamestown Village. The second, of 8 acres, lay south of the seventeenth green, and extended to the shore near Port Laing.

Course layout in 1921, showing the two “Elgin extensions.”

In June 1921, while surveying the present course and the two new parcels, the committee discovered that “the ground at the fourth green was outside the Lease of the course, that it belonged to Lord Elgin and that the Club at present had apparently no right to occupy it.

After considering the matter it was resolved not to raise the question.”

[This land was leased by the course in 1923.]

The two new parcels of land were leased not a moment too soon, as the first quarry encroachment arrived in July 1921.