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Garron Tower Golf Course, Antrim. (1899 – 1910)
Report from the Dundee Evening Telegraph Tuesday 8 August 1899 – “A new golf course was opened yesterday in the grounds adjoining Garron Tower, on the Antrim coast. It is a nine-hole course.”
The holes varied in length from 85 yards to 440 yards.
From the Irish Golfer 30 August 1899 – “The formal opening of the links was carried out by Col. McCalmont, M.P. It had been the former residence of the Marchioness of Londonderry but had been recently converted into a golfer’s hotel.”
Ballymena Weekly Telegraph Saturday 12 August 1899. Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Larne Times Saturday 28 July 1900. Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
The course was listed as Garron Point in the Golfing Annuals from 1902-1910.