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If you have played Hexham you will need no persuasion about the merits of the course. If you haven't, you have a treat in store! A traditional parkland course on fast draining land on the south side of the River Tyne, Hexham Golf Club is a tough enough test of golf to regularly host County events, yet at 6,301 from the medal tees it is enjoyable for club golfers of all standards. The greens are regularly amongst the best in the County, and the views over the confluence of the North and South Tyne and surrounding countryside are stunning.
Services
Hexham Squash Club is the only squash centre in Tynedale and has two excellent courts situated behind the main building at Hexham Golf Club. The Golf Clubhouse is open to both golf and squash members. See the website www.hexhamsquash.org for more details.
History
Built on the site of the old medieval hospice of St Giles founded in 1114 under the care of the priors of Hexham Abbey, the "elegant Palladian house of finely dressed stone", as Pevsner describes the present home of Hexham Golf Club, belies its modest beginnings in 1892. Until 1906, the nine-hole course running alongside the river Tyne and leased from the Local Board, was the town's only golfing facility. The Tyne Green site was grazed by cattle, used by the people of Hexham for riverside walks, and the clubhouse consisted of a hut-come-changing-room!
Moving Home
The new Hexham Golf Club Ltd moved up from the river to its present location in 1907; Harry Vardon, co-designer of the new course, thought it "as fine an inland course as you can find". Its 5470 yard eighteen holes were fully open in early 1908, with a new West Point clubhouse.
Where we are now
This old West Course was sited on 80 acres of leased land to the west of the Spital House entrance road, and it served the club well until 1951 when it bought outright the whole of the Spital estate which included the house, now a Grade 1 listed building and 70 acres of parkland to the east of the entrance road. The course as we now know it is essentially the creation of the noted golf architect G K Cotton who laid out seven holes to the east and 11 to the west of the entrance road. By 1954 Spital House had been renovated as the new clubhouse and together with its magnificent parkland is now the backcloth for what Ryder Cup player Harry Weetman called one of the most beautiful settings for golf he had discovered in his career.
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