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Brigg Golf Club, Bigby Road and St Helen’s Well Courses. (1897 – 1903)

There is evidence of an early course on Bibgy Road which was in existence from 1897 to 1900.

A second course was laid out in the vicinity of St Helen’s Well on Wrawby Road in 1900.

Members of the Brigg Golf Club join the newly formed Elsham Golf Club September 1903.

Thanks to Michael Morrison for his help with the history of Brigg Golf Club.

From the 1899 Golfer’s Guide Annual; “Hon. secretary – Stanley Norman, Brigg; office-bearers – J Russell, R Flowers, H W Hett, J Landers; green-keeper, Isaac Rowbottom; membership of 30; amateur record - S Landers, 43, December 1897; record score in a club competition – G Weebb, 47, April 1898; medalists and trophy holders for 1898 – Stanley Norman, Mrs Cartwright and Miss Holmes; subs £1, ladies 10 shillings. Visitors require to be introduced.

Brigg Golf Club, Lincolnshire; Instituted October 1897. A nine-hole course. This is a private club, and exists only subject to the tenants permission being obtained.”

Result of a match against Gainsborough in December 1899.

Hull Daily Mail Tuesday 12 December 1899. Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

From the Hull and Lincolnshire Times Saturday 20 October 1900 – “The regular golf season commenced last Saturday on the new links between Wrawby and Brigg, which are considered much better than the old ones on Bigby Road. At present the grass on the links is very long and consequently every player loses several balls in the course of a round but it is anticipated that the frost and the cattle in the fields will soon remedy this. Just now, the loss of so many balls justifies the description which a local humorist has used when he said that “the game consists of a player striking the ball as hard as he can and if he finds it again on the same day he wins the game.”

The Ordnance Survey Map from the 1900s shows St Helen’s Well.

O.S. Map Revised 1905 to 1906 - © Crown Copyright {year of publication 1908}.

 Result of a match played at Barton-upon-Humber on the East Acridge course in January 1902. 

Report on the annual meeting in September 1903.

Hull Daily Mail Friday 25 September 1903. Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

The Google Map below shows the area around St Helen’s Well.