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Panteg Golf Club, Pontypool Road Course, Torfaen. (1908 - WW1)
The club was founded in 1908.
New course ready for play in April 1908.
Pontypool Free Press Friday 24 April 1908. With thanks to the National Library of Wales. All rights reserved.
Pontypool Free Press Friday 31 July 1908. With thanks to the National Library of Wales. All rights reserved.
Pontypool Free Press Friday 7 August 1908. With thanks to the National Library of Wales. All rights reserved.
In October 1908 the semi-finals of the Butler Cup competition were played; A H Bailey beat O H Butler 2 and 1; S Evans beat A E John 1up.
South Wales Daily News Tuesday 1 December 1908. With thanks to the National Library of Wales. All rights reserved.
Pontypool Free Press Friday 1 January 1909. With thanks to the National Library of Wales. All rights reserved.
South Wales Daily News Monday 10 May 1909. With thanks to the National Library of Wales. All rights reserved.
South Wales Daily News Tuesday 28 September 1909. With thanks to the National Library of Wales. All rights reserved.
The final of the Godfrey Jones Cup was played in February 1910. It was won by Aubrey I R Butler who beat F E Lockyer by 7 and 6.
South Wales Daily News Friday 29 April 1910. With thanks to the National Library of Wales. All rights reserved.
South Wales Weekly Argus and Monmouthshire Advertiser Saturday 21 May 1910. Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Summer meeting results and report on the annual meeting in June 1912.
Western Mail Friday 7 June 1912. Image © Trinity Mirror. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
A visit by the Suffragettes in February 1913.
Western Daily Press Monday 17 February 1913. Image © Reach plc. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
In 1914 the joint secretaries were W T Wooley, Sunnybank House, Griffiths Town and E H Bennett, “Royston”, Pontypool, the was professional G Burton. A 9-hole course with a membership of 170. Entry fees were £1/1/0. Subs for gents were £1/1/0 and ladies 10/6d. Visitors’ fees were 1/- a day. There was no Sunday play. The station at Pontypool Road was 5 minutes away.
Western Mail Tuesday 28 October 1913 - "A definite move in connection with the laying out of an eighteen-hole course at Penyrheol for the Panteg Golf Club will be made during the course of the next week or two, when Mr H S Colt of Sunningdale, will come down for three days to plan out the course. It is understood the work of construction will be proceeded with immediately the necessary plans are prepared."
Report from the Western Mail Tuesday 2 June 1914. "A highly satisfactory state of affairs was revealed at the annual meeting of the Panteg Golf Club last week, and the progress which is being made at Panteg is also being made by other clubs in the Eastern Valley. Golf has "caught on" during the last four years in a most surprising manner, and after a little more than six years existence the Panteg club is now in a happy position of being able to declare itself out of debt, and, in consequence of this, the founders of the club, who guaranteed it financially, have now decided to tender their resignations as members of the committee. This decision was brought to the notice of the members at their annual meeting, and, as a token of their appreciation of the services rendered to the club by the founders, they decided to elect them all vice-presidents, and to hang a memento group photograph of them in the clubhouse. Unfortunately, however, for the club, they have now a very big obstacle to face in the shape of finding a new playing course for the members. A considerable amount of discussion has been going on locally as to the probability of an amalgamation between the Panteg and Pontypool clubs, and providing an eighteen-hole course for the enjoyment of the members. The desirability of the adoption of such a course is easily apparent, but, as there appears to be no desire on the part of the members of the Panteg Club to move far away from their present site, Pontypool members are not in the least likely to agree to go so far afield for their play."
Results from the Panteg Golf Club Summer Meeting played in July 1914. Bogey Competition - S Evans (9), 3up; W J Thomas (14), 1down; A James (8), 2down; Ll Hughes (8), 2down; E J Bailey (8), 2down; A J Burgoyne (12), 2down. Medal Competition - Rupert Bennett, 98-20-78; W B Evans, 92-14-78; W J Thomas, 97-18-79; E E Harris, 106-27-79. Foursomes Medal (nine-holes) - E Mills and F C Koertgen, 46-8-38; H O Gibson and J Williams, 44-5-39.
Result of a nine-hole competition played in August 1916; Gentlemen - C Davis, 41-9-32; Ladies - Miss Madge Joshua, 37net; Driving - E H Bennett and Miss E Hopton; Approaching and putting - F A Parkhouse and Miss Harding; Clock golf - Rhys Harry and Mrs F J Russell.
Report on the annual meeting in June 1919.
Western Mail Tuesday 10 June 1919. Image © Trinity Mirror. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
Ordnance Survey Map from the time of WW1 showing the Golf Course and Clubhouse.
O.S. Map Revised 1916 to 1917; © Crown Copyright {year of publication 1922}.
Panteg Golf Club eventually disappeared. Many of its members joined the Pontypool Golf Club when they opened their new 18-hole course at Trevethin in the early 1920s.