Golf was first played at Ganton in the summer of 1891 on a course laid
out by Tom Chisholm of St Andrews who had assistance from Robert Bird,
the Club's first professional and head greenkeeper.
One of the great pleasures of Ganton is that it is a challenging Championship Course andplayers are required tohave acurrent handicap certificate.
In staging the Amateur Championship again in 1977 (Peter McEvoy, the
1999 and 2001 Walker Cup Captain, was the winner) and 1991 (the winner
was Gary Wolstenholme) Ganton remains the only inland course to have
held the competition. Indeed Gary Player once said of Ganton that it is
the only inland course worthy of holding the Open Championship.
Ganton is proud to have been so closely linked with the story of British
golf. Deep and prolific bunkers, savage rough and impenetrable gorse
have made for a searching examination of the game's best players.
