Minchinhampton Golf Club was founded in 1889 and now comprises three golf courses, each of quite different character. The clubhouse at the “New Course” was extended during the nineties and was originally an old barn.

      
                                             The clubhouse was originally an old barn



The Old Course on Minchinhampton Common was the original “links" set out in 1889 needing a "high” degree of skill, strength, judgement and patience; the people of Gloucestershire are fortunate in having a lovely and extensive common for their golf". Words that have been taken from an article in "The Illustrated London News" dated August 23rd 1890, but remain as relevant today. Set on a hillocky high plateau, donated to the populace by merchants who had made a fortune out of wool, with wonderful views across the "Stroud valleys", there are some marvellous holes that are a real test of golf.

The Club prospered here, to such an extent that in the early seventies the need came to expand to new premises. Farmland was bought and a new course, later to be known as the "Avening", was constructed some three miles to the east, between Minchinhampton and Avening, and was opened in 1975. An old barn was converted to a clubhouse and again the Club prospered and grew. The clubhouse was extended in the early nineties and as the demand for membership increased more land was purchased and another course was constructed and opened in 1995. The "Cherington", as it was christened, is quite different in character to the Avening, and has developed to such an extent that in 2002 the R&A chose it as their venue for the South West Regional Qualifying Event for the Open, an honour confirmed again for the near future.

For the Cherington course to achieve such recognition within 7 years of opening is praise indeed, and the Club has complemented these two fine courses by expanding the clubhouse once again to establish facilities which are surely the equal of any in the area.

Visit the rest of the site, and then resolve to visit the Club to see (and play) these fine courses for yourself.