Ogbourne Down Golf Club celebrates its centenary
North Wiltshire club survives three name changes and two ‘homes’ to reach milestone
OGBOURNE Downs Golf Club has just celebrated its centenary. It could be unique among British clubs in that, during the 100 years of its existence, it has had two homes and three names. The club began life when a group of about twenty golfers met to establish a club in the Swindon area in October 1907.
A first committee meeting agreed to form The North Wilts Golf Club. The club employed - at a cost of £1 -
greenkeeper and professional, a Mr Foord of Burnham, who laid out the course and gave lessons, but persistent problems with the site meant that, on October 3, 1927, it was agreed to abandon the site and build an 18-hole
course at Ogbourne St George. Less than two years later, the new course was opened and the name changed to Swindon Golf Club. The course, laid out on the big rolling slopes of the downs and commanding lovely views of the surrounding Wiltshire countryside, was designed by legendary five-times Open champion, J H Taylor, and Fred Hawtree.
Some modifications have been made to the course in recent years, but the bulk of Taylor and Hawtree’s handiwork is still being enjoyed by members and visitors alike.
In 1995 the club again changed its name, this time to Ogbourne Down Golf Club (a name it had come to be known
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by anyway) to avoid confusion with the new Broome Manor Golf Complex in Swindon.
During its lifetime the club has played
a prominent part in Wiltshire golf. It has staged many county events and provided numerous county officers. The club has also produced some fine players. Its most illustrious ‘product’ is Claire
Waite, the granddaughter of former long-serving Ogbourne steward John Waite. During the 1980s she won everything the British women’s amateur golf had to offer, including a place in the Curtis Cup team, and was, in 1984, voted the World’s Number One female amateur by American golf magazine Golf Digest.
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