Templeton Golf Club
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The Club Facilities Course Details History Sponsors Reciprocal Clubs Juniors. Thirteen years later a number of people begun coming to the area to play golf on the Domain Board ground and they formed their own holes and used sunken jam tins as cups. Fearing that these people would take over the lease a meeting was held to discuss the possibility of forming a golf club. In the first few months the club developed beyond expectations and Mr Van Asch made an approach to the club for them to take over the full lease of the whole Domain area.
Much of the manual work was carried out by people on the Depression Relief Scheme with the only tools provided were a horse drawn mower, a huge roller, and an old draught horse with a truck provided later. The shed was the centre of social activities with additions in the form of lean tos built to cater for the increasing membership. In the early days liquid refreshment in the form of 5 gallon kegs were bought to the clubhouse by members on the luggage racks of cars. Just before the outbreak of war in 1939 the club was flourishing and it was necessary to close the membership and establish a waiting list.
However the war and subsequent departure of many members to the Armed Services and rationing of petrol forced the club into recess from 1942 until the end of hostilities in 1945. At a meeting in 1946 a meeting was held and it was decided to reopen the golf club for play on 26th March 1946. In October 1952 a decision was made to extend the clubhouse and the Domain Board kindly donated 3 trees from the Acheron area. Somehow 5 trees were knocked down and milled to supply 500 super feet of timber for the 60 x 20 extensions with the clubhouse opened in June 1952.
In March 1958 the building of the green keepers house was completed and additional funds were raised from sale of life memberships to undertake further extensions to the clubhouse which were completed and opened in June 1959. The course received a number of alterations throughout these formative years, the first of these was in 1957. The formation of the lakes on No 3 and No 4 are the only other changes to the layout of the course that we enjoy today
Much of the manual work was carried out by people on the Depression Relief Scheme with the only tools provided were a horse drawn mower, a huge roller, and an old draught horse with a truck provided later. The shed was the centre of social activities with additions in the form of lean tos built to cater for the increasing membership. In the early days liquid refreshment in the form of 5 gallon kegs were bought to the clubhouse by members on the luggage racks of cars. Just before the outbreak of war in 1939 the club was flourishing and it was necessary to close the membership and establish a waiting list.
However the war and subsequent departure of many members to the Armed Services and rationing of petrol forced the club into recess from 1942 until the end of hostilities in 1945. At a meeting in 1946 a meeting was held and it was decided to reopen the golf club for play on 26th March 1946. In October 1952 a decision was made to extend the clubhouse and the Domain Board kindly donated 3 trees from the Acheron area. Somehow 5 trees were knocked down and milled to supply 500 super feet of timber for the 60 x 20 extensions with the clubhouse opened in June 1952.
In March 1958 the building of the green keepers house was completed and additional funds were raised from sale of life memberships to undertake further extensions to the clubhouse which were completed and opened in June 1959. The course received a number of alterations throughout these formative years, the first of these was in 1957. The formation of the lakes on No 3 and No 4 are the only other changes to the layout of the course that we enjoy today
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