Description

Grant Books, Worcestershire, 1992. Hard cover, 110 pp. Published in a limited edition of 750 copies, this is Copy No. 728. Very good in very good dust jacket. Blue textured paper over boards with silver lettering and birds on front and spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few tiny nicks and light creasing along the edges. Light overall scuffing to jacket as well. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Black and white (and some color) photos throughout. Denham Golf Club was founded in 1910 when the course was constructed and existing farm buildings dating back to the 16th Century were converted into a clubhouse. A railway station called Denham Golf Club, opened in 1912, continues to serve the Club today and is only a 20 minute journey from London Marylebone. The parkland course, designed by Harry Colt, opened for play on the 29th of May 1911. Contents include: Foreword by Donald Steel; Recruitment; Expansion; War Footing; Progress Resumed; The 1920s; In Search of Members; Landlord in Waiting; War and Requisition; Post-War Problems; Freehold; Denham and the Arts; The Ladies; Sources; Alex Millar; An Illustrious Member; Denham and the M25; The Course by Bob Penning; The Sheridan Years by Bob Penning; Handing on; Appendix: Captains, Lady Captains, Secretaries, Professionals, Tarleton Cup, Roger Way Challenge Cup, Club Championship, The Max McDairmid Scratch Trophy, The Rudd Salvers