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Kippford Golf Club, Dumfries & Galloway. (1905 - 1950s)
Founded in 1905 when the secretary was Robert Gibson of The Anchorage, Kippford, Dalbeattie.
Report on the opening of the course in July 1905.
Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer Monday 17 July 1905. Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
By 1914 Mr Gibson was the proprietor at The Pines Private Hotel as well as being the secretary at the Golf Club. In 1923 Mrs Robert Gibson had taken over as secretary at the club, a post she held until the late 1930s when J D Gibson of the Pines Hotel took over, a position he then held until the early 1950s. In 1956 the secretary was J Murray of The Pines Golf Hotel.
A 9-hole course of 2,003yds with a SSS of 35 and good natural greens and fine views. The clubhouse was not licensed and there were no caddies available.The station at Dalbeattie was 4 ¼ miles away; the return bus fare from the station cost 6d in the early years rising to 1/- by the 1920s.
In 1906 visitors’ fees were 1/- a day, 2/6d a week, 5/- a month and 7/6d for 6 months.
Result of a competition for a gold medal played on Saturday 24 August 1907; John Ritchie, 90-19-71; Dr Glover, 90-17-73; John Buchanan, 96-20-76.
In July 1908 Mr H D Fitzpatrick, Glasgow, reduced the record of the course, 75, which held jointly with I A Callan, Dalbeattie, to 74, as follows; 4,2,4,5,4,3,5,5,4 = 36; 3,3,4,5,3,4,5,5,6 = 38.
Ordnance Survey Map from the 1900s showing the golf course.
O.S. Map Revised 1907; © Crown Copyright {year of publication 1909}.
In 1913/4 entry fees were £1/1/0 and subs £1/1/0. Visitors’ fees were now 1/- half day, 2/- a day, gents 7/6d a week, ladies 6/6d. Visitors to the Pines Hotel played free. Sunday play was not allowed.
Newcastle Journal Thursday 23 March 1916. Image © Reach PLC. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
View over the Kippford Golf Course and Urr Estuary.
| Course records | Professional/greenkeeper | |
| 1906 | W Blair 38 | W Hastings (p) |
| 1911/14 | Alex Lawson (p) | |
| 1915/17 | J Hastings (p) | |
| 1919/21 | R Fletcher (p) | |
| 1923 | A McKinley (p) | |
| 1926/50s | N McKinley (p&g) | |
| 1956 | F Park (g) |
Competition result from August 1917.
Dumfries and Galloway Standard Saturday 18 August 1917. Image © Trinity Mirror. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
In 1923 there were special monthly terms available to visitors staying in Kippford, Roughfirth and Rockcliffe villages.
An early postcard of Kippford golf course.
The Pines Golf Hotel is in the centre of the picture.
The "Winding Urr"
Pines Hotel from the course.
Solway Firth showing the Kippford course.
Kippford Golf Club had disappeared by 1960.