Bredisholm (Baillieston) Golf Club, Glasgow. (1908 - 1923)

Founded 1908.

Eighteen-hole course five minutes from Baillieston railway station. Large clubhouse; entry fee, £1/1 shilling; subscription, £1/5s.

The club is underway in January 1908. The secretary was J Corbet Campbell.

 

Bredisholm (Baillieston) Golf Club, Glasgow. The club is underway in January 1908.

Coatbridge Express Wednesday 8 January 1908. Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

 

Result of the monthly medal for May 1910; first class – R K Munro, 78-6-72; F Pau, 79-7-72; second class – J Read, 82-11-71; J Cowan, 85-13-72.

Result of the Vice President’s Prize played in August 1910; J Thomson (15), 72; J Cowan (5), 73; R Cowan (21), 74; M Lightbody (18), 74; T S McKinnon (14), 75.

Result of a bogey competition played in August 1913; J B Woodburn (16), 3up; T G Brown (17), 2up; R (P) Dalrymple (11), 2up.

Monthly Medal Finals played in October 1913; first class winner, David Jenkins; second class, Jas McLellan; third class, Jas Paxton. Ladies’ Devlin Medal, winner Miss Jean T Clark.

 In 1914 the secretary was R D Rutherford, Helenslea, Baillieston, Glasgow. Club telephone number Baillieston 20. An 18 hole course with a membership of 280 gents and 140 ladies. The entry fee for gents was £1/1/0 and ladies 10/6d. Visitors’ fees were 1/- a day and 2/6d a week. Sunday play was not allowed. Ladies were only allowed to play on Tuesdays and Fridays, and after 4pm on Saturdays, unless accompanied by a gentleman. The station at Baillieston was 10 minutes away.

Result of a bogey competition played in August 1914; J Cowan (scratch) 5up; B H Grant (9) all square; J McLellan (5) 1down; R K Munro (plus 1) 1down; D Jenkins (3) 1down.

Wounded soldiers entertained in October 1916.

 

Bredisholm Golf Club, Ballieston. Wounded soldiers entertained in October 1916.

Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser Saturday 7 October 1916.Image © Reach plc. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.

 

Bredisholm (Ballieston) Golf Club, Glasgow. The clubhouse.

Bredisholm House, Baillieston was the clubhouse until 1919; the building was demolished in the 1980s.

 

Everything must go - sad report in April 1918.

 

Bredisholm Golf Club, Ballieston. Sad report in April 1918.

Coatbridge Leader Saturday 20 April 1918.

 

The club was finally wound up in January 1923.

 

Bredisholm Golf Club, Ballieston. The club is wound up in January 1923.

The Scotsman Saturday 27 January 1923. Image © Johnston Press plc

 

Bredisholm (Ballieston) Golf Club, Glasgow.Location of the former Bredisholm golf course.

Course location, Bredisholm Golf Club disappeared in 1923.