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The Golf Course
Golf began at Fulwell in 1904,
after an inaugural meeting called by Mr.H.O.Stutchbury and held at the
Archdeacon Cambridge School, Twickenham Green. At this meeting his idea of
forming a club and building a course in the Hampton Hill area was
enthusiastically agreed upon. A lease of the land was arranged, J.H.Taylor was
invited over from neighbouring Mid-Surrey to lay out the course, and play
started that November. Sir Frederick Dixon-Hartland, Bart., became the club’s
first President, and Mr.H.Tomlinson the first Captain.
The club prospered so well
that by the twenties it had two eighteen hole golf courses, with an inner and
outer layout similar to Mid-Surrey. During the Second World War the inner course
was given over for agricultural purposes. In the mid 1950’s, the Middlesex
County Council decided to take over a sizeable portion of the far side of the
course, comprising all or part of the seventh to the sixteenth holes. At that
stage the old inner territory was brought back into play in a new course (the
present one) designed by Mr.J.S.F.Morrison where play commenced on 30 August
1958.
Fulwell is a championship
length parkland course with tree-lined fairways and provides an enjoyable and
challenging test for golfers of all standards.
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