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Faringdon Golf Club, Oxfordshire. (1921 - 1939)
This first club and course appeared in 1921 at Haremore.
The club then moved to Wicklesham. The club and course closed in 1939.
In the 1990s a par three course opened at Great Croxwell. This course closed in 2015, the location of this course can be seen at the foot of this page.
In December 1921, with a view to holding competition in the near future, the club members were requested to apply either to the hon. secretary, W Charlton, or the hon. treasurer, E W Belcher, for handicap cards. These were to be returned completed and signed as soon as possible.
Below the first course at Haremore is ready for play.
From the Faringdon Advertiser Saturday 16 September 1922.
Result of the first match played on the Haremore course in November 1922.
Faringdon Advertiser and Vale of the White Horse Gazette Saturday 4 November 1922. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
Meeting held in September 1923.
Faringdon Advertiser and Vale of the White Horse Gazette Saturday 22 September 1923. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
Report on the annual meeting and a proposed new course in March 1924.
Faringdon Advertiser and Vale of the White Horse Gazette Saturday 22 March 1924. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
Report on the opening of the new course at Wicklesham in October 1924.
Faringdon Advertiser and Vale of the White Horse Gazette Saturday 25 October 1924. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
Result of a match played at Buckland in February 1925.
North Wilts Herald Friday 27 February 1925. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
Result of a match played at Crookham in July 1928.
North Wilts Herald Friday 20 July 1928.
Result of a match against Southfield in June 1929.
North Wilts Herald Friday 14 June 1929. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
Below is the result of a match played at Streatley against Goring and Streatley Golf Club in September 1934.
| Goring and Streatley Golf Club | Faringdon Golf Club | ||
| D G Leadley (4&2) | 1 | H R Bartlett | 0 |
| W C C Cox (4&2) | 1 | S M Cadel | 0 |
| J Herman (5&4) | 1 | H Allway | 0 |
| F Fullbrook (5&4) | 1 | W Tucker | 0 |
| J P Ross Ormiston (4&3) | 1 | F Lane | 0 |
| W Sutton (5&3) | 1 | F Freeman | 0 |
| J L Pasquill (6&5) | 1 | W S Green | 0 |
| J Fullbrook (2&1) | 1 | R B Strangeways | 0 |
| J G Bowen | 0 | D Maundrell | 0 |
| 8 | 0 |
In May 1935 Faringdon again travelled to Streatley and suffered another heavy defeat.
| Goring and Streatley Golf Club | Faringdon Golf Club | ||
| Capt. D G Headley | 0 | R Bartlett (2&1) | 1 |
| J H Cooling (4&3) | 1 | H Allway | 0 |
| J Herman (2&1) | 1 | S M Cadel | 0 |
| R C S Booty (4&2) | 1 | W Tucker | 0 |
| J P Ross Ormiston (4&3) | 1 | B Haines | 0 |
| G L Geckie (2&1) | 1 | R B Strangeways | 0 |
| J Fullbrook (6&5) | 1 | W Green | 0 |
| W H Flett (7&6) | 1 | N Grainger | 0 |
| 7 | 1 |
Match against Abingdon played in July 1935.
Faringdon Advertiser and Vale of the White Horse Gazette Friday 12 July 1935. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
Faringdon Advertiser and Vale of the White Horse Gazette Friday 11 October 1935. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
Match against Abingdon in June 1936.
Faringdon Advertiser and Vale of the White Horse Gazette Friday 26 June 1936. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
Faringdon Advertiser and Vale of the White Horse Gazette Friday 17 July 1936. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
Faringdon Advertiser and Vale of the White Horse Gazette Friday 2 October 1936. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
Matches played in May 1937.
Faringdon Advertiser and Vale of the White Horse Gazette Friday 14 May 1937. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
Faringdon Advertiser and Vale of the White Horse Gazette Friday 28 May 1937. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
By 1939 the Faringdon Golf Club had become defunct.
Faringdon Advertiser and Vale of the White Horse Gazette Friday 9 June 1939. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
Location of the Faringdon course.
In the 1990s a par three course was opened at Great Coxwell. This course closed in 2015. In May 2021 we received the following recollections of the course – “In the 1990s a par 3 golf course located in the village of Great Coxwell (famous for its National Trust tithe barn) opened. This later Faringdon Golf Course closed in the autumn of 2015 with the promise of re-opening for summer the following year. The fantastic course never reopened and a planning application for a holiday park with log cabins was submitted and approved.
It’s amazing how quickly an established golf course of 20 years which has been enjoyed by golfers of all abilities can deteriorate to nothing more than wasteland in such a short period of time. The positions of the greens, tees and bunkers are practically unrecognisable. The club house and shop is empty and the machinery (what’s left) has been left to rot.”
The Google Map below shows the location of the Great Coxwell golf course.