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Being one of the most long lived organisations of any kind in Putaruru, the Putaruru Golf Club has seen many homes.
In 1920 a few holes were marked out on the property of the late Mr A Bent on Overdale Road. In 1921 a meeting was called to form a Golf Club and a subscription of £1-1-0 for men and 10/6d for ladies was proposed. This was subsequently amended to 5/- for men and 2/6d for ladies.
Three shifts to other 9 holes courses complete the history records. In 1923 and then in 1925 and eventually to this present site in 1938 when the Club’s leased enough land off MR G F Bayly on Back Lichfield Road to form a 9 hole golf course and build a Clubhouse. The greens were formed and fenced with 5 wires and the farms sub divisional fences had to be played over without relief.
In the course of time, the ladies section became the Ladies Club. The first recorded Annual General Meeting of the Putaruru Golf Club was held in April 1924. It is of interest to learn that at the AGM in May 1929 the ladies were given the right to be represented by two ladies who could
