Radcliffe-on-Trent Golf Club was founded in 1909 when Tom Williamson laid out a 9-hole course which Frank Pennink expanded to 18 holes in 1972. A Junior Open started life here in 1982, later becoming known as the English Boys Under 16 Open Championship.
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Radcliffe-on-Trent Golf Club was founded in 1909 when Tom Williamson laid out a 9-hole course which Frank Pennink expanded to 18 holes in 1972. A Junior Open started life here in 1982, later becoming known as the English Boys Under 16 Open Championship.
Radcliffe-on-Trent
Tom Williamson laid out the original 9-hole course for Radcliffe-on-Trent Golf Club then he and Tom Vardon played an exhibition match on 9th October 1909 to officially inaugurate the layout. Further land was acquired after the Great War then Williamson and Vardon returned sixteen years later to participate in another exhibition match to mark the opening of a newly expanded 18-hole course.
Following the loss of land due to the re-routing of the A52 highway in the early 1970s, the club purchased additional property then called in Frank Pennink to redesign the course, bringing new holes (#1, #2 and #3) into play with modifications made to others (at #10, #11 and #12). Today, the course extends to 6,495 yards and plays to a par of 70 (35 out then 35 in).
Highlight holes include the only par fives on the card at the 540-yard 7th and 533-yard 12th (rated stroke index 1 and 2, respectively), along with the shortest of the four par threes at the 174-yard 17th, where a long, hourglass-shaped green lies beyond a large pond, with bunkers closely guarding the right and left sides of the offset putting surface.