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