‘The Rec Grounds’ “it was the 17th company to be registered in Jersey.”


St Clements Golf & Sports Centre


St Clements Golf and Sports Centre has been provided accessible sporting facilities for the people of Jersey for well over 100 years.


By Steve Davison, Manager


Originally known as ‘The Jersey Recreation Grounds Company Limited’, or by the locals as ‘The Rec Grounds’ it was the seventeenth company to be registered in Jersey.


The Jersey Recreation Grounds Company Limited was founded on 27th December 1913 by a group of businessmen, it being their forethought in providing accessible recreation to all the people of Jersey that has lead to the sports centre that we have today. This Limited Company, continues to be run by a board of five professional business people (the current chairman being the great grandson of one of the original founders) and are responsible to its ‘Shareholders’ with a small annual dividend being made, however, the ethos of the company


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remains to provide access to all and as such to keep costs reasonable and realistic.


In those halcyon days, the main sports being provided were grass tennis courts and a bowling green, however, within a very short period, and with the acquisition of additional land, a 9 hole, par three, ‘pitch and putt’ golf course was established.


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Over the past years, the sports centre has been


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