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Greenford Golf Club, Greater London. (1912 - WW1)

The club was founded in 1912.

Below the proposed 18-hole golf course.

Greenford Golf Club, London. The proposed 18-hole golf course February 1912.

From the Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser Friday 2 February 1912. Image © Trinity Mirror. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.

 

Advert for the new Greenford Golf Course in October 1912.

 

Greenford Golf Club, London. Advert for the new Greenford Golf Course in October 1912.

Ealing Gazette and West Middlesex Observer Saturday 12 October 1912.

 

Below a report on the first annual meeting in October 1912.

 

Greenford Golf Club, London. A report on the first annual meeting October 1912.

 

Greenford Golf Club, London. A report on the first annual meeting October 1912.

From the Uxbridge & W. Drayton Gazette Saturday 2 November 1912. Image © Trinity Mirror Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.

 

The final of the President's Cup was played in September 1913; A N Harper (3) beat E E Lintott (11) by 7 and 6.  

In 1914 the secretary was L M P Sulivan at the Golf Club. Club Telephone number Wembley 145. The professional was William Cheape. An 18-hole course on good loamy subsoil on high undulating ground with natural hazards. The  club had a membership of 350. There was no entry fee. Subs were £5/5/0. Visitors’ fees on introduction were 1/6 a day, weekends 2/6 a day. Sunday play allowed with caddies. There were stations at Greenford adjoining and  Sudbury Hill DR 15 minutes away.

It was reported in October 1914 that over thirty members of the Greenford Golf Club had joined the Army, several were thought to be in the fighting line.

 

Greenford Golf Club, London. Postcard showing the Greenford Clubhouse.

The Golf Clubhouse, Greenford. Image courtesy of David Heath.

 

Greenford Golf Club, London. The golf course.

 

Greenford Golf Club, London. The clubhouse and course.

Greenford Golf Club and Course. 

 

Greenford Golf Club, London. The course on the 1914 O.S map.

The Greenford Golf Course. Reproduced from the {1914} Ordnance Survey Map. Station (adjoined course) and Oldfield Lane are to the east.

 

Greenford Golf Club disappeared after WW1.

The Britain from Above link below (from 1926) shows the location of Greenford Station which adjoined the golf course. 

http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw016598?search=greenford&ref=4

The Google Map below pinpoints the location of the former Greenford Golf Course.