Heritage

The RSGC

The Royal Selangor Golf Club or The RSGC as it is popularly known by its renowned acronym, has a long and illustrious history that is associated with the birth and dawn of golf in Malaysia. It was founded in 1893 at a time when the game was just beginning to be popularised by the privileged few among Kuala Lumpur’s society.

The Club’s establishment has indeed been a long road traveled and offers a wealth of clubbing hospitality of camaraderie, pleasant social interaction and excellent amenities to its Members and Guests. A Club unsurpassed, the RSGC’s stature as the premier golf club in the country since its early founding years is unrivalled and its long existence  is a testament and celebration of  the strong foundation of this Club.

The notice aptly read :-
“A meeting will be held at the Selangor Club on Saturday, the 21st inst., at 6.00 pm to consider the advisability of forming a Golf Club in Kuala Lumpur. All interested are invited to attend”

This brief notice constituted, for all practical purposes, the birth notice of the Selangor Golf Club. The proposed meeting was duly held, and a provisional committee appointed “to drawn up a scheme for the formation of a golf club”.

The founder Members were among them the Glassford brothers, Clem and John and the Meikle brothers Kit and Robert. It is a common place that wherever the English people have gone they have taken with them their cricket bats and footballs. No less true is it that the Scots, in whom the spirit of adventure is no less ardent and who are at least equally always something of a missionary zeal in the propagation of their own national pastime, golf. The Glassfords who hailed from Grantown-on-Spey in Moraishire, had been bred in the tradition of golf. Of the Meikle brothers, they shared the same high enthusiasm for the game as the Glassfords.

On the shores of Malaya, Clem and John Glassford were coffee planters on the Mount Estate on Bentong Road. Kit and Robert Meikle who were responsible for the original opening of Wardieburn Estate, were also in the same trade.