Frederick Guthrie Tait (11 January 1870 – 7 February 1900) was a Scottish soldier and amateur golfer.

Born in Edinburgh, the third son of eminent physicist and fanatical amateur golfer Peter Guthrie Tait, Frederick was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and Sedbergh School. He entered the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst at the second attempt and is credited with introducing golf there. Tait joined the 2nd battalion, the Leinster regiment (109th foot) and then the 2nd battalion, the Black Watch.

Tait was an extremely powerful and long hitter of the ball. At The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews on 11 January 1893, he hit the ball 250 yards, the ball then rolling on frozen ground and coming to rest 341 yards from the tee, thereby refuting his father's calculation that 190 yards was the maximum possible flight. Tait won The Amateur Championship twice (1896 and 1898), finished third in The Open Championship twice (1896 and 1897) and was leading amateur in the same competition on six occasions.

Tait was killed in action at Koesdoesberg Drift during the Second Boer War. - Wikipedia.org

He is also commemorated on the Black Watch Boer War memorial in Market Street, Edinburgh, Scotland (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/80146/); on a memorial plaque to his (and his father's) memory on the inner north wall of St Johns Episcopal Church on Princes Street in Edinburgh, on a granite Celtic cross in the adjacent churchyard on the Tait family plot (second burial terrace down from Princes Street), on a memorial plaque, originally in Dunalister Veterans Home, now rehoused in the Black Watch Museum in Perth and on 2 memorials in the Royal Memorial Chapel, RMA Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey Heath Borough, Surrey, England.

A fund was raised to erect a suitable memorial to Lieutenant Tait, and as a result a bed was endowed in the Scottish South African Hospital. A ward was also built and named after him at the Cottage Hospital, St Andrews, Scotland.