The idea was the brainchild of Alan Burke of Bolland and Burke chartered accountants in Bruntsfield Place.

He said: "We moved into our office and the first time we played there we were getting lost, not knowing where the next hole was. We figured out that it would help to have some markers.

"We spoke to the council and the people that organise the course and they were happy that we could come up with these markers and through the Tollcross Traders we got organised."

Traders' Association chairman John Saunderson added: "I think the Bruntsfield Links is very, very busy, because it must be one of the few golf courses in Scotland that you can get on for nothing, so I think it's a good advertising scheme for the businesses.

"After you've finished the hole, the markers will be at the back of the hole to show you where the next tee is. The club are wanting to encourage people to play in the right order rather than having balls flying everywhere."

The club's Vice Captain, Jimmy Robertson, said: "We're 100 per cent behind the initiative and the Tollcross Traders' involvement is greatly appreciated.

"It will be a big help to all the visitors on the course.

"There's a combination of getting lost and people who just decide not to play the course as it's laid out, which doesn't do anybody any good at all, so hopefully those direction markers will go a long way to pointing people in the right direction.

"For the visitors on their first time, it's particularly going to help them.

"We do try to provide maps of the course attached to the side of the hut door, but it's subject to demand.

"There's quite a public safety factor up there with the footpaths - they're out of bounds for playing over, so the golfers have got to think of the public, not just themselves."

The short hole course is more than 100 years old, and situated on the site of what could be the oldest golfing links in the world, where the game is thought to have been played as long ago as the 1400s.

The Links was home to a six-hole golf course until around 1890, when it changed to its current 36-hole length