A HISTORY OF MIDDLESEX 



Club, in the Home Park at Hampton Court. 

 Here the turf is very fine, and the lies good, 

 and, though somewhat flat, the links, being on 

 gravel soil, are always dry. 



The Fulwell Golf Club was originally in- 

 stituted in 1 904 ; it has been recently ex- 

 tended on the instigation of the hon. secretary, 

 Mr. H. O. Stutchbury. It now has two 

 eighteen-hole courses, opened for play on 

 19 November 1907, the longer of which is 

 6,000 and the other 5,000 yds. The shortest 

 holes on each course are 125 yds., the length 

 of the longest on the principal and second 

 courses being respectively 514 and 437 yds. 

 Both courses are laid chiefly over old pasture 

 land on a light gravel soil, where the hazards 

 are principally artificial, with a pond, a stream, 

 and some gorse. They are playable all the 

 winter, but the best months are May and 

 June. Bogey for the principal course is 80, 

 the green records being 71 professional 

 (P. J. Gaudin), and 76 amateur (Mr. E. 

 Gawne). The chief prize is the Tomlinson 

 Challenge Cup, but there are also three monthly 

 medals, and several prizes at the spring and 

 autumn meetings, besides others given by 

 individual members. There are two separate 

 club-houses, for men and for ladies. 



The Ashford Manor Golf Club, which is 

 about three-quarters of a mile from Ashford, 

 was founded in 1898. It has an eighteen- 

 hole course of nearly 3^ miles round, which, 

 with the longer course of the same length 

 at Fulwell just mentioned, is the longest 

 in Middlesex ; the holes vary from 148 to 

 461 yds. It is laid over pasture land with 

 a gravel soil, with hedges, ditches, and arti- 

 ficial bunkers as hazards, and is playable 

 throughout the year, being an especially good 

 winter course. The club-house is the old 

 Manor House, which adjoins the links. Bogey 

 is 8 1 , and the record 70 (Mr. H. W. Beveridge). 

 There are spring, summer, and autumn 

 meetings, and prizes consisting of the Cap- 

 tain's, Artists', Wellroth, Hunter, and Mos- 

 sop cups. 7 



Within 3 miles of the Ashford links is the 

 Staines Golf Club, instituted in 1890. The 

 course, of nine holes, is on Shortwood Common. 



LADIES' CLUBS 



There are fourteen 8 ladies' golf clubs in 

 Middlesex, three of which the Enfield and 



7 Ashford Manor won the Middlesex Golf 

 Challenge Trophy on 8 July 1905 ; The Golfing 

 Tear Book, 1906, p. 67. 



8 The Neasden Golf Club permits the election 

 of a limited number of ladies as associates, who 



Stanmore Clubs, in the county, and the West 

 Middlesex, amongst London clubs were 

 founded in 1 893. Of the remainder two 

 the Ashford Manor Club and the Middlesex 

 County Ladies' Club, the latter of which has 

 no links of its own are county, and the 

 following nine are London clubs : the Mus- 

 well Hill Club, instituted in 1894 ; theEaling 

 and Hampstead Clubs, instituted in 1895; the 

 Acton and Wembley Clubs, instituted in 

 1896; the West Drayton and Hanger Hill 

 Clubs, instituted in 1 900 ; and the Fulwell and 

 Highgate Clubs, instituted in 1904. Of these 

 the Stanmore, West Middlesex, Hanger Hill, 9 

 and Fulwell Clubs have separate courses for 

 ladies, those of the first-named three clubs 

 being of nine holes, while that of the Ful- 

 well Club is an eighteen-hole one 5,000 yds. 

 in extent. The West Middlesex, Fulwell, 

 and Acton Clubs have also separate club- 

 houses for ladies. The other clubs play over 

 the same course as the men ; but on the 

 Ealing, Wembley, and West Drayton links the 

 ladies play with shortened tees, and on those 

 at Muswell Hill play only nine holes. The 

 Acton, Ashford Manor, Enfield, Fulwell, 

 Hampstead, Hanger Hill, and Highgate ladies' 

 clubs are all branches of the men's clubs. 



In addition to the various golf clubs above 

 noticed, there are two other organizations in 

 connexion with Middlesex golf which require 

 a brief notice. 



One of these is the Golfers' Club, White- 

 hall Court, established in 1893, which admits 

 foreign and colonial as well as town and 

 country members, and has a total member- 

 ship of 1,000. A challenge shield and other 

 prizes offered by the club are played for 

 annually. The secretary is Col. W. F. 

 Branston. 



The other is the Professional Golfers' Asso- 

 ciation, instituted in 1901, of which the 

 Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, M.P., is president, 

 and Mr. C. E. Melville honorary secretary. 

 A register is kept at the Association offices of 

 situations vacant, and of those in need of em- 

 ployment; and provision is also made, through 

 a benevolent fund, for relieving deserving 

 members by temporary or permanent grants ; 

 assistance in cases of sickness, accident, death, 

 and interments and foi preventing the lapse 

 of life, accident, or other policies ; and for 

 the grant of small annuities to the aged and 



may play every day except Saturday and Sunday, 

 and for whom separate rooms are assigned in the 

 club-house. 



3 The Hanger Hill Ladies' Club has, however, 

 also the right to play over the men's course on 

 every day except Saturday and Sunday. 



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