Glendower Golf Club

In 1935 ten businessmen joined together, formed a company and purchased the farm “Glendower” with the purpose of creating a Country Club. The farm was 126 morgan in extent with much of it being taken up by plantations of trees. An English golf architect, Mr Charles Hugh Alison was employed to plan the course and a South African professional golfer, A.F.Tomsett, was assigned the task of the construction. It was also planned that the club should have a polo pitch but this was abandoned due to the high cost of levelling the ground. The club was eventually opened on the 7th March 1937. Such was the standard of the work and layout that after only two years the club played host to it's first major tournament. The Transvaal Open Championship. This was won by Mr A D 'Bobby' Locke in a World Record score of 265 shooting rounds of 66,69,66 and 64. In 1946 forty professionals from South Africa and Rodesia played in a tournament for 100 pounds, the largest purse ever for a South African tournament at the time. In 1973 the club was proclaimed a Nature Reserve. This proclamation was in order to preserve the excellent bird life that is to be found on the course.