[Thomas Dai]

The Aberdyfi, whoops, Aberdovey, thread had me wondering about other golf courses that have railways stations within a short walk of the Clubhouse.

Just a few examples -

Wales - as above
England - Formby
Scotland - Prestwick
N Ireland - Castlerock

I'm sure there are many, many more.

atb

[Kyle Casella]

Brae Burn near Boston has T stops (Boston subway system) adjacent to the 9th/10th and 12th holes. I am not sure if this is actually true, but one of the members told me that back in the day members used to take the train in from Boston and could access the course from one of the stops. The one near the 9th green is also adjacent to Woodland Country Club.

EDIT- apparently I don't read well. It is not really near the clubhouse of Brae Burn, but very close to the Woodland clubhouse.

[Jud_T]

Ravisloe Country Club in Chicago is accessible by train.  As is Olympia Fields CC, I believe.  Also Lake Shore Country Club is right by a train stop as well.

[Mark Chaplin]

Denham just west of London has it's own railway station, Denham Golf Club.

Gleneagles has it's own station. Royal Lytham has a station by the 9th. Doesn't Flossmoor have a station close by?

Rye used to have a shuttle train from the station in Rye to the golf club. It had two carriages one 1st class the other 3rd class. Basically golfers wouldn't travel 2nd class and the caddies couldn't afford 2nd class!

[J Cabarcos]

In the Greater New York Area, the Tillinghast design at the old Scarsdale Golf Club is brief walk away from the Metro North Railroad stop.  A convienent 25 minute commute from the Grand Central Terminal in NYC.

[BCrosby]

Darwin recounts a story about running (with John Low) from the Woking train station to the first tee.

Bob

[D_Malley]

Philly area: Merion and Gulph Mills are two that come to mind right away.
I am sure that there are several more.

The two clubs tended to draw some high quality caddies via the easy transportation.

[Tony_Muldoon]

Darwin recounts a story about running (with John Low) from the Woking train station to the first tee.

Bob

About 2.5miles following the tracks, more today on the roads.
I have always had a problem hoping for hard facts in his writings. In fact his lack of precision is either frustrating or charming depending on one's point of view. I don't think he was being literal here and he was using 'running' as in getting there as hastily as possible?  Hard to imagine two Edwardian gentlemen in tie, collar and tweeds, running with their clubs to the course!



Moor Park station was originally built for members of Sandy Lodge GC.

[Bill Seitz]

Doesn't Flossmoor have a station close by?

Define "close".  It's about a mile walk.  Perfectly acceptable if you were taking the train down there for a PGA tour event or something, but not exactly adjacent.

[Sean_A]

Harlech has a stop, no station. 

Formby has a small station just outside its gates.

Ciao

[Mark Chaplin]

Sunningdale isn't far maybe a good par 4 from the station.

Boat of Garten, Tain, Golspie and Brora.

Bill I stand corrected, I must be confusing it with OFCC, it's 0.9 mile or 18 minutes walk to FCC.

[Greg Gilson]

Hirono in japan is a ripper

[Colin Macqueen]

Bob,
The vignette you are thinking of may well be "Nailed shoes over Waterloo Bridge".   I wonder if your John Low was the "…eminent golfer on (his) first visit who claimed "It is beneath the dignity of a Scottish gentleman to run."!

Ach now Tony!
"Hard to imagine two Edwardian gentlemen in tie, collar and tweeds, running with their clubs to the course!"

I'm not sure they were running with their clubs to the course but were running, after disembarking from the train, to ensure they got one of the "brakes" which were on offer to transfer them closer to the playing field. Now good old Darwin described them as "brakes" but they were most probably just drays given Darwin's "lack of precision". Chuckling here! After being deposited closer to the club they then had to "scramble" up a slope, across a railway bridge and through a "little wood of hollies"!

Now I can easily imagine Edwardian gentlemen making a discreet dash to a hansom cab followed by a wee "scramble" …..All very decorous!

Cheers Colin

[John McCarthy]

I took the Metra to the Ryder Cup at Medinah.  The stop is called Medinah as is the very small villiage that surrounds the club. 

The stop is several hundred yards from the actual clubhouse because the property is huge.

[Bill Seitz]

Bill I stand corrected, I must be confusing it with OFCC, it's 0.9 mile or 18 minutes walk to FCC.

The Flossmoor station DOES have a really good brewery adjacent to it, however (coincidentally called "Flossmoor Station Brewery").

[Mark Chaplin]

Now that's what I call imaginative naming! I'll check it out next time I'm there.

[Niall C]

Bill I stand corrected, I must be confusing it with OFCC, it's 0.9 mile or 18 minutes walk to FCC.

The Flossmoor station DOES have a really good brewery adjacent to it, however (coincidentally called "Flossmoor Station Brewery").

so which came first ? 

[Niall C]

In Ayrshire alone you have the halt that was opened to serve the Gailes courses ie. Western, Glasgow and Dundonald. There was also the atation at Turnberry which was opened for the hotel/course (is it still open ?), Prestwick which was mentioned previously and then you also have Troon which is adjacent to the clubhouse for the 3 municipal courses.

There may even be a station close to Kilmarnock Barassie, I'm not sure. Golf and trains tended to go hand in hand back when these courses were built so perhaps not surprising how many there are.

Niall

[Giles Payne]

On the same line as Denham, you have Beaconsfield which is right next to Seer Green and Jordans station, both less than half an hour out of Marylebone station.

[Lou Cutolo]

Plandome on Long Island and although not adjacent to the clubhouse Nassau has a train station next to the 8th green.

[Jason Thurman]

The Greenbrier. It's a day trip from me by train, albeit a fairly aggressive one.

[Mark_Rowlinson]

Sadly, there are also a fair number of NLEs: Newcastle/Royal Co Down; St Andrews/TOC; Caldy; Heswall; Woodhall Spa, R Worlington;.

Don't forget West Lancs on the Lancashire coast, Sheringham (if you include preserved steam. A few London Courses: Mitcham Junction and the former Prince's clubhouse (now Mitcham Common GC), Hadley Wood (quite a short walk from station to clubhouse), Totteridge and Whetstone (short walk to South Herts), Mill Hill East/Finchley GC, West Ruislip/Ruislip GC, Sudbury Town/Sudbury and Horsenden Hill GCs, South Greenford/Perivale Park, Perival/Ealing GC, Richmond/Royal Mid-Surrey, Barnes/Roehampton, Mottingham/Royal Blackheath, Fulwell/Fulwell, Strawberry Hill/Strawberry Hill, Wimbledon Park/Wimbledon Park, Sydenham Hill/Dulwich and Sydenham Hill (steep climb!), New Malden/Malden.

I seem to recall that West Byfleet and New Zealand are close to stations. West Surrey is close to Milford Station, West Hill is adjacent to Brookwood. I suppose (as of this morning) you can now get the train to Dawlish and walk to the golf course. Is there still a railway to Llandrindod Wells? Bramhall/Bramhall, Hillside/Hillside, Ainsdale/Southport and Ainsdale,

[Bill Crane]

Springdale !! In Princeton, NJ – hard against the campuses of Princeton U, PU Graduate College, Princeton Theological Seminary and the Institute for Advanced Studies.

It is impossible to play a round at our club without hearing the venerable DINKY – the single car train that runs on a spur line from Princeton Junction Station on the Northeast Corridor train line – the line that NJ Transit shares with Amtrak.  Yes, that’s right , it is a dinky little train – at 2.7 miles it is supposedly America’s shortest regularly scheduled commuter rail line.

Our old clubhouse was about 300 yards to the Dinky station, but we built a new clubhouse at the back of the course further away from the station.  The University, in one of the most controversial moves of the last 25 years, has moved the station 460 feet, shortening the line with the station closer to our new clubhouse.  Despite better parking closer to the station, Princeton Residents and Students have to walk 153.33 yards further to get the Dinky, not quite a full 8 iron for me at the course across the street. Oh horror of horrors !  Change in Princeton – all for an Arts Community and Center.  Most of the walkers are students who have the energy to walk the extra 153.3 yards.

We have about 20+ members from New York City, a few who commute to the club by NJ Transit and take the Northeast Corridor train to Princeton Jct, and the dinky into town.   Sometimes they get a cart ride from the fence near the Dinky – about two holes from the clubhouse – now a Par 3 closer.

Ironically, there was a narrow gauge rail line that ran along the periphery of the course, and the trestle over the brook is still visible despite the tracks being long gone.  The train came from Trenton, NJ and ran closer into town than the old Dinky station.  The tracks are clearly delineated on William Flynn’s 1926 renovation plan.

Wm Flynnfan

[Mark McKeever]

North Berwick has a train station within walking distance.  Perfect convenience for anyone coming out from Edinburgh.


Mark

[Anders Rytter]

Rungsted Gk in Denmark more or less shares parkinglot with Rungsted Kyst train Station

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