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Strawberry Hill Golf Club
Wellesley Road, Strawberry Hill,
Twickenham TW2 5SD, T: 020 8894 1246
Nine hole golf course
established by six Strawberry Hill residents in 1902
after the closure of Chiswick golf club. They also
have a professional shop which claims to be the biggest
stockist of Callaway and TaylorMade equipment in the
South East.
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Palewell Pitch & Putt
Palewell Common, East Sheen, SW14 8RE, T:
020 8876 3357
An enclosed
nine-hole golf course at Palewell Common, which is an
extension of Richmond Park - and the course is divided
in two by the Beverley Brook.
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Richmond Park Golf
(two 18 hole golf courses)
Richmond Park,
Roehampton Gate, Priory Lane, SW15 5JR, T: 020 8876 1795
Richmond Park Golf Course is a pay-and-play public golf
facility with two 18-hole golf courses and other regular
golf facilities - located as you would expect in
Richmond Park. It is operated by a private management
company under contract to the Royal Parks Agency.
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Royal Mid-Surrey Golf Club
(two 18 hole golf courses)
Old Deer Park,
Richmond, TW9 2SB, T: 020 8940 1894
The Royal Mid-Surrey Golf Club has two fine 18 hole
courses designed by the J H Taylor, five times Open
Champion and Club Professional for 47 years. The new
clubhouse was opened by the Duke of York in November
2003.
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Lensbury Club
Broom Road, Teddington,
Middlesex, TW11 9NU, T: 020 8614 6400
The Lensbury Club's golf
court is a full golf course in microcosm, constructed to
USGA standards with a full complement of hazards. All
the challenges of a full course bookable as a 9 hole,
although it has 13 different tees with four greens.
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Fulwell Golf Club
Wellington Road, Hampton Hill, TW12 1JY, T: 020
8977 2733
Founded in 1904, Fulwell Golf Club actually had two 18
hole courses in the 1920s, until the war effort demanded
one be taken over for agricultural purposes. Visitors
welcome, with a discount for locals with evidence of
residence!
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Twickenham Golf Club
Staines Road, Twickenham,
TW2 5JD, T: 020 8783 1698
A nine hole Twickenham
golf course
operated by Amida, offering pay-and-play golf and a 27
bay driving range.

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The origin of golf is unclear and open to debate however the most
accepted golf history theory is that golf (as practised today)
originated from Scotland in the 12th century, with shepherds knocking
stones into rabbit holes in the place where the famous Royal and Ancient
Golf Club of St. Andrews now sits. However, scholars have claimed
references to a form of golf from hieroglyphs found on stone tablets
dating to ancient Egyptian Pharaohs. |
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In 2005, Golf Digest calculated that the countries with
most golf courses per capita were: Scotland, New
Zealand, Australia, Republic of Ireland, Northern
Ireland, Canada, Wales, United States, Sweden, and
England (countries with fewer than 500,000 people were
excluded). Most of these countries have English as the
majority language, but the number of courses in new
territories is increasing rapidly. For example, the
first golf course in the People's Republic of China
opened in 1984, but by 2008 there were 376 |