Hillsborough

Hillsborough Golf Club was founded in 1920, with holes laid out across and old ganister quarry owned by farmer Charles Bramall at the side of Wadsley Common. The local vicar, Reverend George Cherry Weaver, became the first president of the club but he later resigned over the issue of playing on a Sunday.

Conditions at the outset were pretty basic, with players having to work their way around walls, ditches and old quarry workings and a wooden clubhouse, lit by oil lamps, was finally brought into use two years after the club’s formation.

A decade later, the club purchased the land it was leasing and in 1936 a new clubhouse was opened, which merited a visit from one of the three Whitcombe brothers, Charles, who was at that time the Great Britain Ryder Cup Captain.

During World War Two, crops were grown on part of the course and the local Wharncliffe Hospital used the clubhouse for storage. Golf still continued, with Home Guards even given honorary membership of the club.

Today, the course extends to 6,254 yards from the back tees, with par set at 71; out in 35 and back in 36. Highlight holes include risk-reward short par fours at the 7th and 17th, along with the 630-yard 18th, an epic downhill par five finisher.