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Linn Park Golf Course, Glasgow. (1925 – 2020)

The course first appeared in 1925.

Glasgow City Council decided to close the course at the start of public health measures in March 2020.

In the Glasgow District Professional Championship at Littlehill in 1927 H Cameron of Linn Park scored 87 and 98.

From the Golfer’s Handbook 1928 – 1947; 18-holes; SSS 68; Fees, 8d a round.

Competition result from August 1931.

Daily Record Tuesday 1 September 1931. Image © Reach plc. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.

Ordnance Survey Map showing the course and clubhouse at the time of WW2.

O.S. Map Revised 1940; © Crown Copyright {year of publication 1949}.

From the Golfer’s Handbook 1951 – 1957; 18-holes; Fees 1s a round.

From the Golfer’s Handbook 1961 – 1964; 18-holes; Fees 2s a round (1961), 3s aound (1964).

Golfer’s Handbook 1972; 18-holes, 4,616 yards; Amateur course record, 63; Fees, 15p.

Golfe’s Handbook 1975; Professional, W Lyle; Fees, 22p (33p weekend).

Golfer’s Handbook 1982; Membership 132; Secretary, G Flowerday; 18-holes, 4,814 yards, SSS 64; Amateur course record – J McCann, 61; Fees, 85p (£1.15).

Competition results from 1987.

Rutherglen Reformer Friday 6 November 1987. Image © Reach plc. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.

Golfer’s Handbook 1988; Membership 132; Secretary, J McLean; 18-holes, 4,728 yards, SSS 63; Fees, £1.80 (£3).

Course improvements in April 1990.

Rutherglen Reformer Friday 13 April 1990. Image © Reach plc. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.

Competition played in August 1990.

Rutherglen Reformer Friday 17 August 1990. Image © Reach plc. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.

Golfer’s Handbook 1991 – 1998; Membership 90; Secretary, R Flanagan; 18-holes, 4,592 yards, SSS 65; Amateur course record – J Cassidy, 62 (1989). Fees, £2.70 (£3).

Golfer’s Handbook 2002 - 2004; 18-holes, 4,592 yards, SSS 65; Fees, £7.30.

The course continued to be listed in the Golfer’s Handbook until it ceased publication in 2015.

Course scorecards.

Pictures of the course prior to closure.

Thanks to Dr Douglas Lockhart who visited the site in May 2023 and provided the pictures below. A limited amount of grass cutting on fairways and some tees continues and local golfers are still attempting to practice.

The former clubhouse.

View from the second tee.

Golfers leaving the tee on the fourth.

The fourth fairway with the old fourth green in the middle of the fairway - the hole then continuing up to the new double green shared with the first.

Fifth fairway.

Looking back from the sixth green – note the “hole flag.”

Approaching the eighth green.

Approaching the ninth green.

Tenth fairway with narrowing gap and a ditch to negotiate.

Surviving distance marker on the tenth.

Twelfth hole – green in the distance.

Behind the green on the thirteenth.

Short sixteenth.

Looking back from the eighteenth green.