Next meeting Driffield Golf Club

The day comprises a morning business meeting, with three speakers all from different aspects of golf club management, they will without doubt provide us with interesting and insightful information.

After lunch we will play an individual full handicap Stableford for the Fairway Credit Qualifier. The 2019 Yorkshire Region Captain Geoff Drewery will lead us off on his home course.

Driffield Golf Club was founded in 1923, initially being sited on the east side of the town at Meadow Road. A move to the current site on the Sunderlandwick estate took place in 1934. The estate was owned by the late Sir Thomas Ferens and provided for an 18 hole, parkland course. During the Second World War the club gave up 9 holes for agriculture in support of the war effort. There after it remained as a 9 hole course until the early 1980’s when an extension programme was under taken to return the course to it’s present 18 holes which was officially opened on the 2nd of September 1990 by the President of the Yorkshire Union of Golf Clubs.

The golf course itself is set in a beautiful parkland estate with many native trees, ponds and the trout stream. Water Hazards impact on holes seven to eleven, fifteen and sixteen. The feature hole is the par 5 eleventh, with its three ponds and assorted streams running across and along the fairway which, unless accuracy is to the fore, impact at varying stages of the 487 yard hole before you reach the narrow, heavily protected green.

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