East of Scotland Dental Golfing Society. The Society, founded in 1920 within the framework of The British Dental Association (BDA), was established to “cement together” dental golfers in “a relaxed and convivial atmosphere” thereby helping to “keep some sanity in their hum-drum, stressful, professional lives”. The Society “broke away” from the BDA to allow dentists who were not members of the BDA to become members. Early meetings of the Society were held at Kilspindie, Gullane, which hosted the first competitions for the Society’s first trophy – The Brunton Putter. This putter belonged to the first Secretary to the Society, Arthur Brunton, who doubled as Treasurer. The Society, which has had some notable “wooden spoonists”, has been continuously active, except during World War II, remains well supported to this day. The Society tie was introduced in 1966. The original version of the tie had a plain green background. Subsequently, ties of the same design but with navy and maroon backgrounds were introduced