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Ask any American to choose the British course which comes first to mind and he is as likely to name Sunningdale as St. Andrews, this is because Sunningdale's Old and New courses are very much in keeping with what Americans believe a golf course should be and because the Club conforms to the fashionable pattern which they are inclined to take for granted. Yet what a transformation eighty years have brought. |
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| It is hard now to visualise what Sunningdale was like before the railway, the busy main road, a constant flow of air traffic in and out of Heathrow, and the Golf Club which really put it on the map. When T.A. Roberts, the founding father of Sunningdale golf built himself a house on what later became Ridgemount Road, the only link with the village was by means of a bridle path and a good horse... | |||||||||||||
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| .... The other remarkable part of the Sunningdale story, perhaps unique if there was a means of checking, is the loyal service which a number of men have given to the Club. Until Keith Maxwell took over as professional in 1984 there had only been six professionals in 83 years... | |||||||||||||
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Excerpts of text by Donald
Steel.
Taken from the distance guides available in the shop. |
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