Duddingston Golf Club was formed in 1895 by the members of the insurance and banking fraternity in Edinburgh, who decided that the park owned by the Duke of Abercorn at Duddingston on the south-east of Arthur's Seat was the most suitable for their own course. The course was first laid out by Willie Park and was subsequently altered in the 1960's and 1970's by John Shade and Bill Biggar.