The Haunted Major Golf Society based at the Glen Golf club North Berwick was established in 2002 exactly one hundred years after the publication of the classic golf novel The Haunted Major by Robert Marshall after which the Society is named. The novel, The Haunted Major, is the story of an epic golfing match between the self-important and pompous Major, the Honourable John William Wentworth Gore and the reigning Open Champion, Jim Lindsay on the Old Course at St Andrews, renamed St Magnus in the novel. The ghostly Cardinal appears to intervene in the match. The winner will get the chance to propose to the beautiful, captivating Mrs Gunter.
The Haunted Major Golf Society is a group of 14 golfers who meet every Sunday morning to play a match over The Glen Golf Course at North Berwick. The Society recently introduced a new modern method of making the matches on a Sunday morning. No longer the old fashioned throwing of the balls in the air but in its place a new modern digital method of drawing a cork with a number on it which determines the order of play. The stake for the match is one pound and the player with the best Stableford score takes the pot

 On the last Sunday of each month the Society plays for The Major’s Medal and at the same meeting of the Society the Floating Trophy is awarded to the golfer who has accumulated the best average score over two rounds in the preceding month.

The Society’s other main competitions are the Four Seasons Trophy which is played four times a year at a meeting when the Society visits another golf course and the Society’s Matchplay Knockout Competition which begins in May.

The Society holds an AGM in January of each year on or around Burns Night.

The Glen Golf Course, www.glengolfclub.co.uk is situated on the east links of North Berwick. It was established in 1906. The Glen sits up on the cliffs overlooking the town to the east and the Bass Rock to the west. The Bass Rock is home to the biggest breeding colony of gannets in the world. The course offers some of the most spectacular views in golf. The course has some fine holes but its signature hole is the spectacular 13th - a par three of some 150 yards. From the tee the green is obscured by a giant sand dune; to the right and behind the green is the machair, the beach and the sea; and between the tee and the green is trouble. Depending on the wind it can be a nonchalant 9 iron or a ferocious 3 wood. Many a round has foundered at this hole.

The Haunted Major Golf Society welcomes other members of the Glen and friends to join the match on a Sunday.