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The club's membership experienced periodic shifts with the changing prosperity of British farmers over the years - there were 700 members in 1876, 275 in 1892, but the club has grown in the 20th century, claiming 1,500 members in the 1920s, and just under 6,000 today. [citation needed] The club frequently moved premises in its first 60 years.
The local golf course – mostly played at night with glowing balls, to avoid daytime heat – is completely free of grass, and golfers take a small piece of "turf" around to use for teeing off. As a result of correspondence between the two clubs, the Coober Pedy Opal Fields Golf Club is the only club in the world to enjoy reciprocal rights at ...
The club has reciprocal arrangements with more than 100 clubs throughout the world. Members can use the facilities of overseas reciprocal clubs with a card or letter of introduction issued by the Calcutta Rowing Club. [8] Madras Boat Club, Chennai, India [9] The Durban Club, Durban, South Africa [10] National Liberal Club, London, UK [11]
Golf clubs and courses on the National Register of Historic Places (35 P) Pages in category "Golf clubs and courses in the United States" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
The company was founded by the late Robert H. Dedman, Sr. (1926-2002) as Country Club, Inc., later renamed ClubCorp. [3] [4] His son, Robert H. Dedman, Jr., became president in 1989 and CEO in 1998. [5] His daughter, Patty Dedman Dietz, was previously on its board of directors. [5] In 2002, its CEO was John A. Beckert. [6]
The National Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs was formed in March 1932, with its head office in London. New clubs sprang up in Scotland, Northern Ireland and as far afield as Australia and New Zealand, and by the outbreak of the Second World War the federation included 412 clubs and 22 county federations with a membership of 15,000 people.
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There are currently about 70 farmers golf locations in the Netherlands, and over 110 Europe-wide. In 2005, over 10,000 people played the game on Weenink's course alone. Farmersgolf is played with a special wooden golf club, with a club head in the shape of a wooden shoe, or clog (in Dutch: klomp). A farmers golf ball is, with its 20 centimeter ...