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Weybridge Golf Club, New Haw, Surrey. (1909 - 1920s)
Founded in 1909.
The secretary at the outset was Mr Evelyn P Uniacke.
From the Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News Saturday 6th February 1909. Image © Illustrated London News Group.
From the London Evening Standard Monday 12th July 1909. Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
The course was officially opened on Saturday 16th October 1909 with two professional matches in which J H Taylor and W H Horne, of Chertsey, were the two principal players. In the morning game Taylor played the better golf eventually winning by 3&2. In the afternoon Taylor and L Biles (Weybridge) opposed Horne and A Thomson, of Hampstead, in a four-ball match, won by the latter couple by 3&2.
It was reported in April 1912 that the course of the Weybridge Golf Club had been remodelled by Harry Vardon. J H Taylor and Vardon were to take part in two matches to celebrate the opening of the “new” course. Ten new holes had been made, and the course, with its charming clubhouse and grounds, had been “bought up to date” with the alterations.
No report was found on the Vardon Taylor matches, but, as can be seen below Harry Vardon took on Ted Ray on the Weybridge course in June 1913.
From the Aberdeen Press & Journal Monday 9th June 1913. Image © D.C.Thomson & Co. Ltd. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
An extract from a report on the above match from The Scotsman; “Edward Ray, Oxhey, Open Champion, and Harry Vardon, ex-Champion, played an exhibition match. In the morning a medal round was contested, Ray, who was at his best, winning by five strokes. Curiously it was Vardon who laid out the course. The short game and putting of the Champion was very good and his long game was well worthy of his place as Champion. He was nearly always on the greens, even the longest, in two, and was rarely off the fairway. A notable exception was the tenth, where the Champion pushed his tee shot into a wood, but, using his niblick, reached the course cleverly, and being on the green in four, holed an eight yard putt for a half in five, good play on the hole of 571 yards. Ray certainly dropped a stroke on the last green, where a faulty approach put him into a ditch. The course of 5,977 yards, with a bogey of 80, (40 each way) was in excellent condition. The only fault being the somewhat cramped character of the approach to the greens.”
In 1914 the secretary was Percy White. Telegrams to Golf Addestone and telephone number 166. The professional was W Vardon. An 18-holes course on sandy soil with gravel subsoil with land drains and ditches enabling it to be free of casual water in winter. Holes were a good length and there was no crossing of holes, the course was well bunkered. Subs for gents were £5/5/0 and ladies £3/3/0. Visitors’ fees were 2/- a day, weekends 3/6, if playing with a member 1/6 and 2/6. Ladies were only allowed to play at weekends if accompanied by a gent. There was a footpath from the station at Weybridge which was one mile away. The stations at Addestone and Byfleet were both 2 miles away.
Location of the Weybridge course at New Haw. Grid reference TQ06050,63270, co-ordinates 506050,163270.
Weybridge Golf Club disappeared in the 1920s.