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1890..... |
A
meeting was held on March 1st 1890, at the Westminster Hotel to
discuss establishing a golf club for Rhyl. Chaired by Colonel
Mainwaring it was agreed that the club should be created. At the
meeting, a Mr Keatinge and a Mr Kent offered to provide the land
plus a temporary wooden building free of charge to accommodate the
members. A £1.1s entrance fee and one guinea per annum for playing
members was agreed. Captain Rowley-Conwy was elected as the first
captain of the golf club. |
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1893..... |
Rhyl
golf club becomes a founder member of the Welsh Golfing Union. |
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1896..... |
The
Welsh Amatuer Championship was help at Rhyl for the first time. John
Hunter (Glamorganshire GC) beat Rhyl's P Plunkett by one hole.
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1908..... |
Vardon opens the the new 18 hole course (that runs along the back of
the Marina Hotel). Membership is at 300. |
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1921..... |
Flintshire County Council make a compulsory purchase order to take
some of Rhyl golf course land to build an arterial road from Rhyl to
Gronant. |
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1930..... |
The
starting point for the course had now been moved (due to the new
coast road) further east. The club house (due to it being now being
half a mile from the start of the course) was to be sold.
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1931..... |
Due
to the nature of the leases on the course the club was going through
a period of instability. Redevelopment of the golf course site was
proposed (as a holiday camp). Three options were given to the club:
wind up the club, reduce the course to nine holes and continue or
ask the council to step in and take over the course to keep it as 18
holes. |
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1937..... |
Rhyl
is now a 9 hole course. The club house is now a mile and a half from
the town centre. The grounds of Salem bungalow cut the golf course
in two and a passge between the bungalow grounds and the vegetable
garden alowed golfers to proceed to the next green. The remains of
the bungalow can be seen near to the eighth tee. |
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1945..... |
The
golf course was originally protected by large natural sand dunes.
These were gradually eroded by the sea and the wind. Between 1911
and 1945 some 57 acres of land were lost to the sea, the high water
mark had pushed inshore some 550 feet. |
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1951..... |
The
new sea defence scheme and promenade was opened but during the year
the Prestatyn end of the course became unsuitable for golf owing to
the large accumulation of sand. |
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1962..... |
A
new threat to the golf club. A private company (Welsh Wonderland
Ltd) wanted to set up the equivalent of 'Disneyland' on the course
site. The Council turned down the plans |
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1968..... |
Rhyl
Council decide that the golf course land (which now had a
considerable value) would not be used for residential development.
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