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unusual facts about Royal St George's Golf Club


London Scottish Golf Club

The London Scottish course hosted the first ever Oxford v Cambridge University golf match in 1878, and the annual fixture was played there until 1896, after which it moved to Royal St Georges in Sandwich.


Prince's Golf Club, Sandwich

There is even a commemorative plaque by the 4th tee on the Himalayas course which marks the spot where he used his local knowledge of the course to make an emergency landing after his Spitfire was crippled over northern France during WWII.

World War II was very hard on Prince's, but Australian entrepreneur Sir Aynsley Bridgland intervened, engaging Sir Guy Campbell and John Morrison to re-design and restore the course.

Ladies European Tour player Helen Wadsworth is a former member and played at Prince's as a junior.


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