Panmure Golf Club was founded in 1845, predated on the North Bank of the Tay only by Carnoustie in 1839, but golf was played in the area for many years before this. The Registrum de Panmure describes Robert Maule (1497-1560), a keen footballer, but 'lykewakes he exerciset the gowf, and oftimes passed to Barry lynks, quhan the wadsie was for drink'. It further notes that in the event of him losing the 'wadsie' (wager) he sent one of his servants to buy the drinks. This may be because he was busy throwing his clubs in the sea as the Registrum notes he was 'colarique of nature and subject to sudden anger'.
Its first course was a 6 hole course at Monifieth where Lord Panmure had granted them a right to play. As was common with many clubs of the time, this right did not overrule the rights of tenant farmers and, in July 1845, James Maule of Monifieth farm claimed a right of pasturage and, when negotiation failed, an interdict was granted against the club in 1847. This caused the club many problems. Their plans to lay out a 9 hole course, designed by the great Allan Robertson and Alex Pirie had to be abandoned. Competitions were played over both Monifieth and Carnoustie links with its 10 holes and to which club members also contributed funds for upkeep. One imagines the committee inquiring after Mr Maule's health hoping to hear bad news as a map for the extension of the course had been drawn up in 1851 and, the following year, Mr Maule obligingly died. Application to remove the interdict was made successfully and a 10 hole course was laid out under the direction of Alex Pirie of St Andrews. This was 3131 yards long with the shortest hole being 139 yards and the longest 443.
The Monifieth links were extended to 18 holes in 1880 and had become very popular with the Monifieth, Advertiser, Broughty Ferry and Electric clubs playing over them also. Although the Earl of Dalhousie had made the Panmure club the sole custodian of the links in 1893, congestion prompted the club to acquire the present links at Barry in 1898.
(Sources include The Records of the Panmure Golf Club, Barry, J Lindsay Henderson, Dundee, 1926)
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