Golf & Race Tracks

[Simon Barrington]

2 more here from Jonathan Davison on X:


"2 courses within races tracks. Wien golf club, Austria and Racing Club Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic"


https://x.com/CreateGolf/status/1862408965008572513

[Thomas Dai]

There was once a horse race track at Kington. Located around the present 2nd and 16th holes.
As an aside terrain not used much for crop growing or settlements were occasionally used for activities that folks wanted to be less well known …. eg, what appear to be bunkers on the 16th fairway at Kington were apparently cockfighting pits and then there’s the Mass Hole at Waterville in Ireland.
For another golf course which used to have a horse racing track through it there’s Whittington Heath, where part of the clubhouse was once the race course grandstand.
Atb

[Niall C]

Don't know if it has been mentioned yet but a large part of the Penrith course in Cumbria was on a race-course and from memory the first clubhouse was underneath the grandstand.


Niall

[Mark Pearce]

There was once a horse race track at Kington. Located around the present 2nd and 16th holes.
As an aside terrain not used much for crop growing or settlements were occasionally used for activities that folks wanted to be less well known …. eg, what appear to be bunkers on the 16th fairway at Kington were apparently cockfighting pits and then there’s the Mass Hole at Waterville in Ireland.
For another golf course which used to have a horse racing track through it there’s Whittington Heath, where part of the clubhouse was once the race course grandstand.
Atb

That'll be the old clubhouse.  HS2 has brought them a brand spanking new clubhouse.

[Sven Nilsen]

More for the list or to look into -


Ascot Municipal GC - Los Angeles - 18 holes in the infield of the Ascot Speedway.
Tampa Bay Hotel GC - a small practice course existed within the racetrack while the new 18 hole course was being laid out.
American Jockey Club at Arlington Park
Lincolnshire CC aka Lincoln Oaks GC - built in connection with Lincoln Fields racetrack.
Kansas City Jockey Club aka Elmridge CC
St. Louis Jockey Club
New York Jockey Club - at the site of the Morris Park racecourse, which hosted both the Preakness and the Belmont
Allegheny CC in Pittsburgh started from a group that played out of the Homewood racetrack.
Vancouver GC (WA) - plans for a course to be laid out on the site of an old racetrack, no evidence course ever built.


The course in the infield of the Harlem racetrack in Chicago was also the location for Newspaper GC and Tecumseh GC.


In addition, there were a great number of golf and automobile clubs, many of which might have had some kind of racetrack.