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The '''Royal Perth Golfing Society''', or its full name of '''The Royal Perth Golfing Society & County and City Club''', is a golfing and private members club in [[Perth, Scotland|Perth]], [[Scotland]], with premises overlooking the [[North Inch]].

== History ==
The Perth Golfing Society was formed in 1824.

In 1833 [[King William IV]] granted the Society his Royal Patronage. This was the very first grant of royal patronage to a Golfing Society, notably a year ''before'' [[The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews]], which is often wrongly presumed to be the first and whose members sadly do nothing to dispel the falsehood. 
There  are now over 70 clubs throughout the world [[List of golf clubs granted Royal status|entitled to use the name 'Royal']] and Perth is  proud to be the oldest.

==See also==
*[[List of golf clubs granted Royal status]]

==Further reading==
*{{cite book|author=Thomas Duncan Miller|title=The History of the Royal Perth Golfing Society; a Century of Golf in Scotland: With a Selection of the Golf Verses (hitherto Unpublished) by the Late Neil Fergusson Blair : Compiled at the Request of the Council of the Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0SkPAQAAMAAJ|year=1935|publisher=Munro Press}}

==External links==
{{Official website|rpgsociety.co.uk}}

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[[Category:1824 establishments in Scotland]]
[[Category:Sports clubs and teams established in the 1820s]]
[[Category:Golf clubs and courses in Perth and Kinross]]
[[Category:Organisations based in Scotland with royal patronage|Perth Golfing Society]]
[[Category:Sport in Perth, Scotland]]
[[Category:Gentlemen's clubs in Scotland]]
[[Category:Organizations established in 1824]]
[[Category:Royal golf clubs]]

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