10
THE EARLY YEARS
General Committee was advised that there was good golfing land available to extend the course to 18 holes. If this recommendation was accepted, it would also be necessary to make two holes in a field rented by Mr Hunt, a Cliſton butcher, to properly connect the proposed extension with the present course (the field in question now contains the present 8th and 9th). Te bold or far-sighted decision to extend the course to 18 holes was taken at an
extraordinary general meeting of members of the Club on Saturday, March 18th 1905 and reported in Clevedon Mercury (our Minute book for this period is missing). Te following resolutions were unanimously adopted: 1. Tat the course be extended to 18 holes. 2. Tat the Committee be authorised to make such arrangements with the owners or occupiers of the land required for the purposes as they shall think fit.
3. Tat the rule which limits the present membership to 70 be rescinded. 4. Tat the Committee be empowered to expend the sum of £25 (the balance in hand from last year’s accounts) for the purposes of the extension, and also all the subscriptions and entrance fees received from members over and above the present limit of 70, in addition to the special voluntary fund.
5. Tat contributions to the special fund shall in the event of the extension proving to be a success be entitled to have the amounts subscribed returned to them at such times as the Committee thinks fit.
6. New members will be admitted during the present year at one guinea subscription and one guinea entrance fee. Next year the subscription and entrance fee will probably be raised.
A further entry in the Clevedon Mercury (September 16th 1905), noted that
progress is now being made with the extension of Long Ashton Golf Course and it is quite expected that the full course of 18 holes will be opened for play in the New Year. It seems incredible that the course was extended by nine new holes in less than a year.
Te Ordnance Survey numbers and names of the fields rented were recorded
as follows; Original
course New extension { {
pt 1199, 1200, 1202 Part of Mount Hill and Jerusalem pt 1199, 1203, 1204, 1205 West Hill
1209, 1210 Ashton Hill (present holes 8 and 9) 1212
pt 440 465
Iron Pit piece (present holes 1 and 10) Poor allotment (present holes 11 and part of 18)
Allotment on Ashton Hill (present holes 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17)
Total acreage is 139. (Te present 16th and 17th holes were added in 1938) {
present holes 3 to 7
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