This is the final batch of photocopies I made from:
British Golf Clubs by Road and Rail – Golf Clubs of the Empire, ed T.R. Clougher
6 volumes annually 1927- 1932
(Cambridge University Library)
Once again, I have to say that the photos were reproduced very poorly and have come out even worse after photocopying and scanning. I have photocopied the whole page, because in many instances courses which no longer exist are listed. Any comments are welcomed. The photos were reproduced between 1927 and 1932, but we can only guess at when they might have been taken.
Both these appear to have been photographed during events of some kind.
Quite a few fir trees even then.
Royal Blackheath amalgamated with Eltham in 1923.
Woolaombe Bay doesn’t appear to have survived. It looks quite spectacular (in a sea mist!). Wooler is listed as being founded in 1975 by R and A handbook. Was the club disbanded and later re-opened? On the same site?
Naze, Lockinge Mersey and Wednesbury all seem to have perished.
Shoeburyness, Shorncliffe, East Lincolnshire, Slaithwaite and District have disappeared, I think.
Look how few trees there were at Wentworth! I can’t identify which course or which hole.
Heath, West Cheshire and Monkhams have succumbed?
Wonderful bunker at Seaton Carew! Does it still exist? I take it that one of the Seaford clubs is the public one, the other the private club. Seaham appears to have lost ‘Harbour’ from its title.
Of these clubs I think Red Wharf Bay and Rhayader no longer exist.
Moor Park had not long been open. Quite a few NLEs here: Honor Oak, Merton Park, Molesey Hurst, Monkhams, Mote Mount, Nazeing, Neasden, New Hanger Hill, Norbury, Northaw, Northwick Park.
Greatstone, Little Warley, Fulwood Park and Liverpool Banking seem to have gone to the great teeing ground in the sky.
Otterburn NLE. Oxford University and Oxford City are constituent parts of Southfield. Oxhey went shortly after the Second World War. Padgate NLE.
Nice bunkering. Anyone recognise the hole?
I didn’t think to photocopy the previous page, to see if there were two clubs/courses in Ilfracombe. Sorry. Fort Anne seems to have gone. Is Port Erin now Rowany? Chale, Needles and R IOW have gone – see an earlier post for photo of Needles.
Higher Bebbington has gone, ditto Holy Island. Hooton, too. Has Horbury gone? Hough Green seems also to be a casualty.
I’m not sure the player on the right is actually ‘on the course’!
Hendredn Bala – is this now simply Bala? I take it that Teesdale is now simply Barnard Castle. Ardsley seems to have gone. I’ve never heard of Bladud GC. Strange name.
I think Helmsley has perished. Never heard of Peppard, either.
West Park and Hapton are no longer listed, nor Harlow.
Hawes and Hay (sounds like an animal and its food!) NLE.
Someone seems to be playing from the beach!
United Services, Belvoir Castle, Grassington, Guildford Town, Shalford Park and Hainault Forest seem to be the casualties here.
Presumably the photo is of the Felixstowe Ferry course before WW2. But is it? Could it be Eastward Ho?
Farningham, Eastward Ho! Lambton Collieries, Fishguard and Goodwick Bramshot and Flixton seem to be the losses here.
Anybody know anything about Barossa? – the golf club, not the wine growing region.
I think the casualties here are Bude Cliff, Burlescombe, Burnopfield, Burwash.
Broad Oak and Bruton don’t seem to have survived.
I’m not sure about Cannington Park – there is a Pay and Play listed as a 1993 foundation in R and A Handbook.
Enfield, Blundell (or do we know it as something else?), Alcester are fairly definite casualties. Is Aldershot Command now The Army? Alsager moved some years ago to a site alongside an ordnance factory!
Crook of Devon, Dalkeith, neither of the Dalrys, Denny, Doune, would appear to be moribund. I presume Douglas is now Douglas Water.
I like the suggestion that this is the 7th green. That might be the green beyond the bunkers, but this chap is not going to reach with his putter!
Fintry , Fochabers, Ford Valley and Fauldhouse (previous page) probably no longer exist.