The Royal Calcutta Golf Club is the oldest golf club outside the United Kingdom. The oldest club outside Scotland is the Royal Blackheath Golf Club in...
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Blackheath is an area in Southeast London, straddling the border of the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the London Borough of Lewisham. Historically within...
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Prince of Wales and his courtiers played golf at Blackheath, London, from which the Royal Blackheath Golf Club traces its origins. There is evidence that...
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This is a list of golf clubs that have been granted permission to bear the appellation of "Royal", having been bestowed by a reigning monarch, such as...
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"Royal Blackheath Golf Club". scottishgolfhistory.org. Retrieved 9 December 2008. "Golf at Blackheath through the centuries". Royal Blackheath Golf Club...
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club was based at Levenhall Links, Musselburgh. The first golf clubs were founded in the 18th century. The first was the Royal Blackheath Golf Club,...
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at the top of Blackheath Hill and on the edge of the heath. It was subsequently used as the headquarters of Royal Blackheath Golf Club. The first recorded...
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Calcutta Cup (section Calcutta Club)
historians. Royal Blackheath Golf Club members had close links with Blackheath Football Club (Rugby) which was one of the most prominent clubs in the early...
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the first 18-hole golf course and sets the standard for future courses. 1766 – The Blackheath Club in London becomes the first golf club formed outside Scotland...
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Captain General of the Royal Blackheath Golf Club, is one of the earliest portrayals of the game of golf. Reproductions hang in golf clubs the world over. It...
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as a reliable witness. Golf at Grose Farm was strongly influenced by Royal Blackheath Golf Club in England. The NSW Golf Club (no continuous connection...
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Eltham (category Districts of the Royal Borough of Greenwich)
22 March 2018. "Royal Blackheath Golf Club". Retrieved 23 March 2022. "Our History : Royal Blackheath Golf Club – The Oldest Golf Club in the world". Royalblackheath...
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Records. John Baker. ISBN 0-212-97022-4. "Heritage". Eltham: Royal Blackheath Golf Club. Retrieved 12 June 2016. McGourty, Christine (14 January 2009)...
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which recurs in the 2 following years. The foundation of the Royal Blackheath Golf Club is claimed. 1609 – The Lord Mayor's Show is revived. 1611 King...
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The Pau Golf Club is one of the oldest golf clubs in the world. It is a private members-only club based in Pau, France. Founded by a group of Lord Hamilton...
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The Open Championship (redirect from British Open (golf))
Robertson as the "Champion Golfer". Blackheath (England), Perth, Bruntsfield (Edinburgh), Musselburgh and St Andrews golf clubs were invited to send up to...
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Cousins G. (1975). Golf in Britain. London. Royal North Devon was founded in 1864, and while Royal Blackheath is indisputably the oldest club in England, it...
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Lancashire Amateur Championship, Royal St. George's Gold Cup 1933 German Open Amateur Championship 1934 Royal Blackheath Cup 1935 Prince of Wales Cup 1936...
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from the A2, Ringway 2 would have crossed Eltham Warren Golf Course and Royal Blackheath Golf Club to reach the A20 at Mottingham where its next junction...
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Morris's successor but also had a short stint at Royal Blackheath in the 1860s. Hunter apprenticed as a club maker under the direction of Old Tom Morris at...
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eleven golf clubs. George Glennie and J.C. Stewart win for Blackheath. 1858 The Royal Curragh Golf Club is founded at Kildare, the oldest golf club in Ireland...
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along with Royal Blackheath, was one of just a handful of courses in the London area at the time.[citation needed] Since then, the University Golf Match has...
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Greenwich (category Districts of the Royal Borough of Greenwich)
Museum in the former buildings of the Royal Hospital School in 1934. Historically an ancient parish in the Blackheath Hundred of Kent, the town formed part...
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between the other three golfing venues in the south of England, Westward Ho! (Royal North Devon), Blackheath, and Wimbledon. Club membership was mainly...
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Shooter's Hill (category Districts of the Royal Borough of Greenwich)
singer-songwriter Boy George (Culture Club) lived in Shooters Hill Road. Woolwich Eltham East Wickham Plumstead Welling Blackheath Kidbrooke Westcombe Park Falconwood...
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roundarm. Ireland played club cricket for Blackheath in Kent. He made his first-class cricket debut for Kent County Cricket Club against Hampshire in May...
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1986 New Year Honours (section Royal Victorian Order)
Security Officer III, HM Treasury. Patrick Connolly, Steward, Royal Blackheath Golf Club. James Cooper, Sergeant Major Instructor (Drum Major), Angus and...
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Prince Andrew, Duke of York (category Graduates of Britannia Royal Naval College)
for two golfing trips. Andrew resigned his honorary membership of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews when the Queen removed royal patronages...
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Alice Kennion (category People from Blackheath, London)
played in the 1896 championship at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club at Hoylake. Playing out of the Wimbledon club she won her early matches easily, Winning...
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Green in December that year. A match against Blackheath FC on 20 December went less happily. The Blackheath club played a rugby-style game, necessitating...
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