Huddersfield Golf Club

[Dean Stokes]

Start off with a shot of the clubhouse from the 1st fairway. I played here in June when the course was in great shape.

[Dean Stokes]

I will get back with the rest when I've worked out how to enlarge the photos!!!!!

[JWinick]

Is this is in England?  This was my only round of golf ever in Europe.  Good times. 

[Andrew Mitchell]

Dean

I played Huddersfield GC (also known as Fixby) last month.  A very good challenge.

I look forward to seeing the rest of your photos.

[Jon Wiggett]

I played Fixby a lot during my junior years and it was always a real treat to play. The 16th is one of the most complete par 4s that I have ever encountered and the course might be worth playing just for this single hole. Fixby does have many other excellent holes though and has cross bunkering on several holes notably the par 5 5th and par 4 6th.

[Dean Stokes]

Jon, I probably played there with you 25 years ago!!!!!
Still working on my technical skills with photographs. Apparently I am completely useless my brother just said. Cheers.

[Jon Wiggett]

Dean,

yes I think we probably did. I will have to get across there to play it again some day soon.

[Tom MacWood]

Who does the club recognize as the designer or designers of Fixby?

[Jon Wiggett]

Tom,

here is some of the club's history from the website http://www.huddersfield-golf.co.uk/index.asp


The club was founded in 1891 and the original courses, 18 holes for the men and 9 for the ladies were laid out by Tom Dunn, one of the leading golf course architects of the day. The first professional at Huddersfield, appointed at the age of 23 was Alex Herd who won the Open Championship in 1902.
One of the earliest captains, Dr F L Mackenzie was the originator of the concept of County Unions and he became the first President of the Yorkshire Union when it was formed in 1893/4. Fixby is known as ‘the Home of Yorkshire Golf’ and all the Yorkshire Union of Golf Club’s honours boards are displayed in the Centenary Hall.

The course has been changed several times in the last 100 years, with modifications by Alex Herd, W Herbert Fowler, Dr Alastair Mackenzie, Hawtree and Donald Steel. In 1969 the present 12th & 13th holes were opened, following the sale, for housing, of holes adjacent to the present 17th. An exhibition match involving Peter Oosterhuis, Gary Player, Joe Carr and Rodney Foster took place to celebrate the opening.

A £0.5m project to relay all the greens to USGA standards, which ensures they are playable throughout the winter, has recently been completed, to the design of architect Cameron Sinclair. To celebrate the reopening of the greens, a further exhibition match took place in September 2004 with representatives from the four Cups - Neil Coles (Ryder), Alison Nicholas (Solheim), Gary Wolstenholme (Walker) & Emma Duggleby (Curtis).