The golf club was opened Thursday 26th May 1910. Season tickets for gentlemen was £2. 2. 0. Ladies £1. 11. 6. Weekly Tickets 7/6, Day tickets 2/6 and One round 1/6. Caddies Fees First class 1/0 a round, Second class 9d. Locker rents lower tier 4s per annum, upper tier 2/6 per annum. Golf season ticket holders had the privilege of playing bowls on the green in Bulwell Hall Gardens free of charge. The golf pavilion was erected at the entrance to Bulwell Hall Park, close to the station on the Great Central Railway, and the course was arranged so that the first tee and the 18th green were near the pavilion. The Great Central Railway Company agreed to issue return tickets between Victoria station and Bulwell Hall holt station at 4d each after 12 noon each day.
A committee meeting was held at the Exchange Nottingham on Thursday evening June 23.rd 1910. Present :- Councilor Mee in the chair, Messer's E Mellor, R. Harbridge, W. Ball, H. Davis, M. H.. Hogan, A. Ley, T. Plumb, J. H. Richards, and the Hon. Secretary.
Messer's A. Ley, T. Plumb, J. H. Richards and the Captain were elected to serve as a sub. committee to arrange the rules of the club. Messer's H. W. Davis, T. Plumb, Hon. treasurer and Captain were elected to the house committee. Mr. T. Plumb as secretary. Messer's P. S. Clay, M. H. Hogan, councilor C. J. Mee, Principal Ritchie and the Captain were elected for the Green's committee.
It was decided that the handicapping should be left in the hands of the whole committee for the present and members were to start on their present handicap at other clubs. The second Thursday and Saturday in each Month were appointed for the qualifying rounds for Medals. First and Second divisions and scratch competitions limit for handicap 24. First division 14, second division 15 upwards.
Two prizes for each 1st and 2nd Divisions players will be given for the best aggregates of two rounds, 18 holes, Stroke play, to be given on either of the following days:-
In addition Two Balls and One Ball respectively will be given in each division for the best and second best rounds played on each date. No winner can take more than Two Balls but will be eligible to take an aggregate prize. Draws as usual, last draw 3.30 p.m. Entrance Fee 2/6, which will cover the three rounds. all expenses will be paid by the club, and as the entire proceeds of the entrance fees will be given to a fund for Sufferers from the War, the committee hope as many members as possible will enter and help.
Many changes have taken place at the Nottingham City Golf Club both in and around the club-house but much more has happened to the course. Some of these can be blamed onto the ravages of two World Wars, but many more are the result of the members repeated calls for alterations and improvements that have been in some cases whim and fancy.
Captains over the years are noted for wishing to leave their mark on the club, all we hope with the best intension for the betterment of the club. looking at some of the changes on the course over the years we have to compare the holes then and now. the route around the course from the first official opening has changed so many times and yet no ways around have been written down to clarify the whys and wherefores. The following is an attempt to show some differences of the eighteen holes from the first layout to the 1999 layout.
The Tee was by the side of Bakers Wood approximately level to the Ladies Tee.
Both the Tee and Green have been re-laid over the years. During the 1914 to 1918 war, this area was used by military, as was the area's between Allcocks Wood and the railway line and each sides of the lakes.
Change of Tee position.
The Green for this hole was the present 16th . This was a right to left dog-leg, the ground of the now 12th fairway bore fruit trees, there are still two apple trees among those trees between the 12th and 16th fairways.
This is where the post-war (1939--46) re-construction had the greatest effect. The Green was positioned at Baker's, Wood's South-West corner just passed the bunker. The Tee the 14th can still be found beyond this spot close to the hedge. A stream ran down the length of this hole, fed by spring water from the Lodge on the main drive. this then flowed across the 16th. fairway onto the land where Bulwell Quarry was.
Played to the same Green as to-day but the fairway extended over the 15th.
This hole was played alongside the hedge, the Tee can still be found at the of the dividing hedge between the allotments and the super-store grounds. The Green was in the area covered by the 14th Tee.
Green brought forward from a back fence and a rear bank made.
Richard Kevin Martin
Nottingham City Club House
First Fairway Looking From First Tee
