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Carrbridge Golf Club, Highland. (1880s - WW2)
There is evidence that the club could have appeared as early as the 1880s.
Advert for the Hotel and golf course in August 1901.
Dundee Courier Tuesday 6 August 1901. Image © D.C.Thomson & Co. Ltd. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
Pre-WW1 postcard showing the Carrbridge Hotel.
Ordnance Survey Map from the 1900s showing the Hotel.
O.S. Map Revised 1900; © Crown Copyright {year of publication 1902}.
Report on the hotel and six-hole golf course from July 1903.
Dundee Courier Thursday 30 July 1903. Image © D.C.Thomson & Co. Ltd. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
In 1906 it was listed as a private course of 9-holes belonging to the Carrbridge Hotel. The course was open to visitors. The station at Carrbridge was ½ mile away.
In 1924, the secretary at Carrbridge Golf Club, Inverness-shire was D Ross, Mafeking, Carrbridge. The 9-hole course had a membership of 60. Visitors’ fees were £1 a season. Sunday play was not allowed.
In 1940 and 1947 visitors paid £1/5/0 a season. The rest of the information is as 1924.
Still advertising golf in 1939.
The Scotsman Saturday 25 March 1939. Image © Johnston Press plc. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
Throughout the 1950s the secretary was M Hay, Craigellachie, Carrbridge, telephone 207. Fees for the season were £2/2/0. Sunday play was still not allowed.
Postcard with a view across the course posted pre 1940. Postcard by Urquhart, Dingwall Series
The current Carrbridge Club was founded in 1980 and is in more or less the same location as the old club.