Redditch

Redditch Golf Club was founded in 1913, though a couple of local clubs existed before it was formed; namely Ipsley Golf Club (1891-1908) and Redditch and Walkwood Golf Club (1905-1913).

The original 9-hole layout was designed by W.P. Lewis, the Kings Norton professional, and the Coventry Evening Telegraph reported on 29th October 1913 that it had been officially opened with an exhibition match between J.H. Taylor (Mid Surrey) and George Duncan (Hanger Hill).

The course was later extended to eighteen holes but the building of a new road in the early 1970s prompted the club to move to its current location a short distance away, leaving behind a 9-hole layout that became the municipal Pitcheroak Golf Course.

Laid out on a rolling landscape by Frank Pennink, the tree-lined Callow Hill course is configured with two returning nines, each playing to a par of 36. The signature hole is regarded as the 372-yard 12th (“Rushley Bottom”), where a creek and a small pond eat into the fairway on the left as it turns in that direction towards the green.