Hi Neil,

Thanks for the post and welcome to the forum. Hope you dont mind, but I've moved the posts to the original Whaley Bridge Golf Club thread to keep it all together.

Very interesting to hear another voice saying that there were 11 holes. I was also told this, but i wasn't sure where it was, so your input is very useful.

Regarding the uploading, you have successfully loaded a picture, so i suspect that when you made your post, you selected the tick box to attach files at the bottom, but then selected the wrong file when you subsequently were taken to the screen which allows you to select a file and upload it.   Dont worry - If you still have your 'edited' file on your computer, then you can just go to your original post in this thread, select the 'ATTACH' option at the top right of your post, and try selecting and 'uploading' the new picture again. You can delete the original picture at the same if you want.

Cheers

Jon.

Edited by user 19 January 2011 09:24:57(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

I see that Derbyshire Record Office holds the minutes of the Golf Club from 1918 to 1926 ( http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/accessions/2004/04returns/04ac26.htm ). I wonder if Braid's plans for expansion would be amongst them.

Hi RSS,

With a deft little chip I think I may have escaped from the bunker !

I have been passed the following scan of a booklet associated with the course. This refers to John Ashworth A later photo of John(Jack) Ashworth, who used to be the professional referred to in the booklet  has been posted previously on this thread. The booklet  does suggest that  there were 11 holes in play, and provides some convenient yardages.It looks like an extra hole was added some time after 1925 and obviously before 1960, when the land was sold. I'm trying to find out if the booklet is dated.

Cheers

Jon.

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CllrJonG attached the following image(s):

One of the great pleasures of being on the green's committee of a Golf course is to muck around with the course layout. With the simplicity of the old Whaley course, essentially an open field with no major obstructions, I would not be suprised if several changes in layout were made over the years. I am also sure that on quiet days many of the members would invent their own holes - playing from the tee of one hole to the green of another to add variety and challenge. 

Hi RSS,

Yes I know who you mean, and I dont understand it either, unless the 11 holes were there for a period and then taken back to 10 when it was all sold.. I've been passed the rest of the pages from the booklet now, but unfortunately there is no date. I include the scans below. These are all the pages available.

Cheers

Jon.

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There are what look like several tees here 

http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=53.33703093118844~-2.0063914348652334&lvl=19&dir=0&sty=h

Which do not seem to fit in with the holes as previously described.

Building a small and simple tee would only be a couple of days work at the most, so I can imagine that over the years that it is possible that tees were built and then fell out of use as the course evolved. Greens of course would be a different matter.  

Neil,

I stopped in the layby yesterday and took a few snaps. I was going to take the footpath across the field, but time was pressing and it was getting chilly. Another day maybe. I have marked up on the aerial photographs the holes I could definitely identify. I will post a clubhouse side aerial view later.

Regards

RB

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7th Fairway - Green Beyob Fence.JPG (1,249kb) downloaded 31 time(s).

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9th Green (a).JPG (1,301kb) downloaded 37 time(s).

My family moved to Whaley in the summer of 1980, but I seem to remember  the locals referring to it as the "Old Course" and the "Old Clubhouse"

I recall the Daily Mirror publishing a story of an old bloke who continued to play the course throughout the 80s. Occasionally I used to see him, presumably on the second hole from your picture, whilst driving home from work.

At the risk of being called an ignoramus when and why was the course closed?