Bibliography
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TITLE
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PUBLICATION DETAILS
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Grant, Peter
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100 Years on the Cliff
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Pennard Golf Club, 1995)
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further details of the Course as it now is, can be read about at any of the above
links; the one on the left being of and for Pennard Golf Club itself, the one in the
middle being a sharing of the personal view of Sean Arkle (a member of PGC) -
and is not only a great read, but also is full of historical snippets, mentions of
James Braid and his visits and suggestions to the Club for its course, as well
perhaps a more 'friendly' viewpoint for each hole and its attributes (and problems!) whilst the one on the right is from the GolfClubAtlas website.
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Although I have lived opposite Pennard Golf Clubhouse since 1969 (and have links with the area prior to then), I have to now hold up my hands and say that I've never been a golfer during my lifetime (well, at least I haven't up til now)!
Having said that, being a Local Historian is just as fun, and at least one keeps dry on those wet old days which Pennard encounters only too frequently. But I'm digressing, so it's back to the history of Pennard Golf Club.
As will have been noted from the homepage of this website, the area we know today as Pennard, Southgate, and Kittle, as well as to a certain extent, Parkmill, Ilston and Kilvrough, were up to 1920, mostly in the ownership of the Kilvrough Estate.
Details of what happened to the Kilvrough Estate in and before 1920 can be viewed here, and it is true to say that Pennard Golf Club came into existence long before that year, but whereas where the course had been laid out had always been leased, the opportunity arose in 1920 for the Golf Club to actually purchase the land itself, and not only purchase it, but after a bit of 'subtle negotiating', it was purchased for what really was a 'knock-down' price!
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