1924 – MacKenzie’s second re-arrangement

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A plan of the proposed new layout was displayed in the club house in January 1924.

In February 1924 it was agreed to lease the land and to spend up to £450 if necessary on the work of rearranging the course. Once again Alister MacKenzie designed the new layout. His brother’s firm created the tees and fairways, while the turfing and placing of top soil on the five new greens was be done by the club’s own men under the Head Greenkeeper.

Unfortunately we have no record of the new layout, but the Scotsman carried this article:

The Scotsman
8th September 1924
OPENING OF EXTENDED COURSE

Extensive alterations and improvements have been carried through on the Dunfermline Golf Club’s course at Ferry Hills, North Queensferry, by the British Golf Construction Company and the club’s own staff, under the supervision of BDR Mackenzie, the well-known golf course architect. Fields overlooking the Forth, adjacent to Port Laing, have been incorporated in the course, and this new ground, in the words of Dr Mackenzie, will “add very much to the attractiveness of an already very attractive course, giving holes of much interest and variety.” Features of the alterations are the elimination of “blind” holes, the inclusion of two holes each about 500 yards long, and the lengthening of the course to approximately 5570 yards.

 
The extended course opened on the 6th September 1924, with play restricted to club members only for the remainder of the year, to allow the new greens and fairways to settle in.

By 1925, membership had recovered to pre-war levels: 296 men, 145 ladies and boys and 22 temporary members, giving an annual subscription of £644. Other income from entrance fees, and bar sales amounted to £500. Total income was £1400.

Expenditure over the year was £1215 – upkeep of the course was £400, rent was £262, rates and insurance £132.

So despite the cost of the rearrangements the club was still thriving.

And so was the quarry business, which led to a third encroachment in 1926.

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