Walmley Golf Club was formed
at a meeting in Erdington,
Birmingham on 22nd September 1902 and a nine-hole
course was opened on 20th December of the same year
with about fifty members taking part.
The course was extended to eighteen holes in May 1908.
During the next two years more land was acquired, together
with the purchase of a large Victorian house to act as
the Clubhouse.
The course was improved and developed steadily until
World War II came when, amongst other difficulties, half
the course was ploughed up.
In 1962 the Club bought the freehold of nearly all the land
in use and sold the land to the north east of Brooks Road
that the Clubhouse stood on.
The sale of this land enabled the Club to buy the freehold
of all the remaining land and to build the modern Clubhouse
now in use to a design that allows wonderful panoramic
views of the course.
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