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Stansted Mountfitchet Golf Club, Essex. (1902 - WW1)
The club was founded in 1902.
The Stansted club had a 9-hole course that opened in early 1903. There was a two storey clubhouse and there were great hopes for the clubs future.
The course was laid out near Castle Hills by W Aveston from Cromer. The railway station was 200 yards from the course.
In the 1905 Nisbet’s Golf Yearbook it was listed as Stansted Golf Club. The secretary was C Gold, The Cottage, Stansted, and the captain, Sir T Jackson, Bart. Membership at this time was 150. Entrance fee was £1/1s and subs £3/3s – ladies £2/2s. Visitors’ fees were 2/6 a day and 10/- a week.
East Anglian Daily Times Friday 2 November 1906 - "A silver challenge cup, presented to the Stansted Golf Club by the Stansted Polo Club, for a ladies' competition, has been won by Miss D Jackson, daughter of Sir Thomas Jackson, Stansted House, who beat Miss Lucy Spencer in the final.
Above is a view from the Stansted course in the 1900s (showing the two-storey clubhouse?).
The professionals were G Harvey to 1906 and F Woodcock in 1908/9.
With the opening of Bishop's Stortford Golf Club in 1910 many members moved to join the new club. Unfortunately the hopes of the club Stansted Club never materialised and the club closed prior to WW1.
Report on the history of Bishop's Stortford Golf in 1996. It includes a mention of the Stansted Golf Club.
Dunmow Observer Thursday 4 July 1996. Image © Reach plc. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
Ordnance Survey Map Showing Castle Hill and the Railway Station.
O.S. Map Revised 1896;© Crown Copyright (year of publication1898).
The Google Map below pinpoints The Thatch. In a 1914 newspaper report The Thatch was stated to be “at the top of the Stansted Golf Links”.