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Buckland Golf Club, Oxfordshire. (1920s - 1950s)

First appeared in the 1920s.

Result of a match played at Faringdon in December 1924.

 

Buckland Golf Club, Oxfordshire. Result of a match played at Faringdon in December 1924.

North Wilts Herald Friday 12 December 1924. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.

 

Result of a match against Faringdon Golf Club played in February 1925.

 

Buckland Golf Club, Oxfordshire. Result of a match against Faringdon played in February 1925.

North Wilts Herald Friday 27 February 1925. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.

 

In the 1930s the secretary was A C Vinen and the green-keeper G Batson. A 9-hole course with a membership of 100. Visitors, fees 2/- a day and 12/6 a week Sunday play was allowed. The railway station at Faringdon was 4 miles away and Oxford to Faringdon buses passed the course. 

By 1935 membership was 110. Fees were; 7/6 a week, 12/6 a month and 21/- for three months. Local hotel was the Lamb Inn. 

Below is the result of a match played at Goring and Streatley Golf Club in June 1936.

Goring and Streatley Golf Club   Buckland Golf Club  
J H Cooling (1up) 1 G Turner 0
E Jacson 0 G Baston (4&3) 1
J Herman (1up) 1 B J Cutteridge 0
N E Padwick (8&6) 1 C Povey 0
P C A Slade (halved) 0 A C B Dodd (halved) 0
R L Keightley (4&3) 1 J Dean 0
J A Clarke (4&3) 1 H I Taylor 0
F C Newberry (halved) 0 A C Vinen (halved) 0
Cooling and Jackson (6&5) 1 Turner and Baston 0
Herman and Padwick (6&4) 1 Cutteridge and Povey 0
Slade and Keightley (5&4) 1 Dodd and Dean 0
Clarke and Newberry (5&4) 1 Taylor and Vinen 0
  9   1

In 1940 and 1947 the secretary was E W Fry, 10 High Street, Bampton, Oxon and the green-keeper W J Rhodes.  The nine-holes had a SSS of 66, club membership of 150. 

Buckland Golf Club had disappeared by 1951. 

The golf course is shown on the Ordnance Survey Map below.

 

Buckland Golf Club, Oxfordshire. O.S. Map showing the golf course.

O.S. Map Revised; ca.1928 to 1938; © Crown Copyright {year of publication 1938}.