Following a poor winter in 1906 the seeding on the 'Castleton Field' failed and by the spring of 1907 only 9 holes were open for play. To assist the Town Council the farmer at Wamphray offered turf for the greens and George Dalziel, captain of the Glen Golf Club laid a water pipe to the centre of the course at his own expense. He was also responsible for the design of the first hole, lowering the hill to the north and widening the approach. The original course yardage card (980 yards) and hole names can be accessed here. In September 1907 the Town Council had incurred £10,850 of expenditure which included the purchase of the land. In October that year a site visit was organised with Hugh Hamilton (position of greens), Ben Sayers (bunkers), Robert Maxwell(advice) and the Council purchased a Pennsylvania 19" Mower from John Wightman, Ironmonger 23 High Street costing £5-6s.

In 1906, the golf magazines and newspapers carried a report that North Berwick Town Council was the first local authority in the world to build and manage a public golf course. Following the success of the venture by Provost Macintyre and the North Berwick Town Council other communities were encouraged to layout a golf course in their public parks. In a speech by William Howard Taft recognised as America's first golfing President he encouraged all State Authorities to build municipal courses just like Scotland for those who could not pay for costly club facilities.

In the winter of 1908 James Braid travelled from London to inspect the progress. He returned in July 1909 to consult on the new bunkering, with the advice of Peter Lees, the greenkeeper at Royal Burgess Golf Club. Lees apprenticed as a green keeper at Archerfield before making his reputation at Mid-Surrey Golf Club, Richmond. In 1914 he emigrated to America and worked with the leading course architects Charles Blair Macdonald, Albert Tillinghast and Seth Rayner. He wrote a book and several articles on the maintenance of golf courses on different soils.

he new course stretched inland over the Rhodes and Castleton farms, with the first six holes skirting the Rhodes steading and Wanton W'as cottages, passing the disused lime kilns and out towards the shooting range of the Volunteer Rifle Corps. The green then took an angular direction towards the eleventh and eighth holes. A turn was made from this point and the inward play was along the cliff top back to the Glen burn, where the eighteenth hole was situated, embracing the ground of the original nine-hole Rhodes Links. In April 1909, Duncan Fleming resigned and Fred Smith from Combe Bank, Seven Oaks in Kent was appointed green keeper and the 18 holes measuring 980 yards came into play. Mr Cockburn farmer at Castleton paid £40 per annum to graze his sheep on the Burgh course.

The course was officially opened on 4th June 1908 when a professional tournament was played which included J.H. Taylor, Alex Herd, Andrew Kirkcaldy and Ben Sayers. J. G. Sherlock of Richmond scored 78 and 79 for a winning total of 157.

The North Berwick Corporation Links Club was founded on 9th June 1906 when George Dalziel was elected captain and Andrew D. Wallace appointed secretary and treasurer. The entry fee was 17/6d and the club had 233 members including 10 ladies. The original Rhodes Golf Club continued with 50 members and the former Amateur Champion Robert Maxwell was their Honorary President.

In 1947 the majority voted against golf on Sunday. Golf was first played on a Sunday over the Glen Golf Course on 11th March 1958.

In July 1909 the Town Council invited the first sixty professionals in the recent Open Championship to take part in the competition for big-money prizes. The invited professionals included five Open Champions; J.H. Taylor, Arnaud Massy, Sandy Herd, Harry Vardon, Willie Auchterlonie and two future champions in Ted Ray and George Duncan. Among the local professionals were Ben Sayers, Willie Watt, David and Andrew Grant, James Souter, Ben Sayers Jnr. and Robert Thomson.

A huge crowd watched the tournament including many spectators who arrived on special trains from Edinburgh. Harry Vardon alone took over a 1,000 people with him off the first tee. The local hoteliers and publicans erected a row of tents near the eighteenth green to supply Lunches and Refreshments. The press had a separate tent while the marquee owned by the Rifle Volunteers was used by the golf professionals. George Duncan, the pro at Timperley GC on the outskirts of Manchester won the tournament with a four round total of 290, including a brilliant 70 in the third round, setting a new course record. Duncan was a former carpenter who turned down the chance to play football for Aberdeen FC. He was later the pro at Wentworth and won the Open in 1920.

Duncan received a gold medal and £125, the largest sum ever offered for a first prize in a professional tournament. This record was beaten four months later when Willie Anderson from North Berwick won the Portola tournament at the San Francisco Golf and Country Club with the first prize of £150. The mid-iron and putter Duncan used to win the event on the Burgh Course are on display in the British Golf Museum. Sandy Herd was runner-up with Vardon third, while local favourite Robert Thomson finished tied for sixth place. During the tournament,W.H.Horne the six-foot tall pro from Chertsey Golf Club had the longest drive ever recorded in a competition. From the 13th tee, Horne drove the ball to the edge of the green which measured 388 yards. This drive was recognised as the official world record for over 20 years.

The anonymous donor was Colonel John Weir who resided at Ingleholm in Clifford Road, North Berwick and was conferred Honorary Life Member in 1909. Colonel Weir, although a United States citizen and of Mexico, was born in Scotland in 1852. He made his fortune in America and was president of the Nevada-Utah Mines & Smelters Corporation. On 14th April 1912, Weir perished in the Titanic disaster and his body was never recovered. The former coachman from Innerleithen is remembered annually when the Glen Ladies compete for the Colonel Weir Rosebowl.

George Duncan who won the professional tournament was Open Champion in 1920. He was hired by Edward Esmond, a wealthy financier and race horse trainer who owned Marly Knowe in North Berwick, to travel to Paris for a month each autumn and coach his daughters to play golf. In 1925 Esmond presented a trophy to be competed among the artisan golfers in East Lothian. The Esmond Trophy was first played over the Glen golf course (1925-1945) before being moved to the West Links until the present day.

D & W Auchterlonie, from the famous St Andrews club making family opened a workshop on the Glen course in July 1907. David was the clubmaker while Willie Auchterlonie, the 1893 Open Champion gave lessons. Clubs stamped with Auchterlonie - North Berwick are highly collectable. An iron putter made by Willie Auchterlonie at North Berwick circa 1910 is on display in the British Golf Museum. At the 1909 Open at Deal a golf exhibition tent was introduced for the first time, where the leading manufacturers and retailers displayed their wares. D & W. Auchterlonie won first prize in three categories, for their drivers, brassies and wooden putters. The judges were Willie Park, Charles Gibson and Peter Fernie.

In 1907, Tommy Hume was also a pro golfer at the Glen, working on his own account while living with his family in the Rhodes Farm Cottages. In 1909, Robert Kirkpatrick proprietor of the Canty Bay Inn was granted permission to erect a timber building at the east end of the course known as The Refreshment Rooms. Alex Marshall, the clubmaker at 27 Station Hill took over Auchterlonie's workshop in 1911 where he repaired clubs until 1919. Alex Marshall lived in May View on Tantallon Road, overlooking the Glen golf course. George Burnside was appointed Starter and Robert Thomson was Burgh golf professional from 1923-1938.

Robert 'Bob' Thomson a club maker to trade had an outstanding playing career. He represented Scotland in the Home Internationals from 1903-1912. In the Open Championship he finished in the top six in 1903 and 1905 and was Scottish Professional Champion in 1909 after defeating Willie Watt from Dirleton in the final. He replaced James Braid at Romford Golf Club in 1904 and three years later returned to North Berwick. He regularily played in the prestigious News Of The World tournament at Sunningdale and was among the prize winners in 1912. Robert Thomson remained single and died in 1954 aged 78 years.

In June 1911, the Town Council entertained a deputation from St Andrews and another from Troon to shown them how the Town Council laid out and operate a municipal golf course. The North Berwick Town Council were one of the first towns in the world to operate a golfing facility on behalf of the community. This evoked much press coverage from New Zealand, Australia and America, encouraging other towns to layout a public golf course.

In March 1912 the Scottish qualifying for the 'News of The World' and Dunlop Cup tournaments was played over the Glen golf course. In June 1914 the Scottish Professional Championship was also played over the Glen, when David Watt from Dirleton scored 71 in the fourth round to oust his brother Willie Watt from the leadership which he held from the start. David won by a couple of strokes and became the first left-handed player to win a professional tournament. David Watt apprenticed as a clubmaker with Andrew Bissett at North Berwick before being appointed golf professional at Mortonhall. In the 1920s the Glen was a popular venue for various tournaments including the Scottish Professional Golfers Association championship (1924), Scottish Ladies Open Championship (1925) Scottish Ladies Amateur Championship in 1926.

When greenkeeper Fred Smith left for Langley Park in September 1910, Peter G. McKenzie, the assistant at Gullane was appointed head greenkeeper at the Glen golf course. Peter resided with his parents in Stanley Road, Gullane, before moving to 2 Law Road, North Berwick. He was a member of Dirleton Castle Golf Club and played in the wining Wemyss Country Cup team in 1899, 1904, 1906 and the first winner of the Watson Cup in 1902 and winner of the Haldane Cup in 1906. At the start of WW1 he enlisted with the Royal Scots rising to the rank of Corporal. He fought at the Battle of Arras and was killed in action on 10 April 1918 and is buried in Cabaret-Rouge, Souchez, France. His name is engraved on the War Memorial beside the Old St Andrews Kirk in Gullane.