Bedfordshire Golf Club was establised in 1891 and has been at our current location since 2000 when the club purchased the land and developed this magnificent facility for members and guests. 

Bedfordshire Golf Club offers members, guests and visitors alike, a wide range of golfing facilities including: an 18 hole championship course, a Par 3 Academy course, practice areas for putting and chipping including bunkers, a 24 bay covered/floodlit driving range and a magnificent clubhouse to relax, eat and drink afterwards. 

In addition to our excellent golfing facilities we are able to offer extensive function and conference arrangements for business, parties and weddings. 

Bedfordshire Golf Club is fully owned by it's membership. 

In 1891, Guy Pym and others founded the Club and golf was played on fields adjoining Brickhill farm about a mile from the centre of Bedford. The entrance fee was half a crown, the annual fee half a guinea and membership limited to 150. By the following year, the entrance fee had been increased to £1 and the annual subscription was also £1. 

 

The course at Brickhill was large enough for 9 holes, but it only had a short life since by 1895 an alternative site had been found on land at Biddenham, sufficient to lay out 18 holes. The layout of the course probably remained unaltered until 1924 or 1925. The old Bedfordshire course was flattish but full of features that gave variety and interest to the holes. The hazards consisted of hedges bounding the course, a cart road, a pond (a water hazard whether there is water in it or not), ditches and turf bunkers with sand or pot bunkers. Until quite recently, there were also other hazards. Many a ball was lost in cracks that opened up in dry weather. The years and deeper grass growth with improved maintenance softened these speleological hazards. There were no trees on the course as late as the 1920's, except possibly some poplars. At the turn of the century, the grass was kept low by sheep. 

 

By the 1930's, the club was sufficiently well established financially to consider the construction of a clubhouse. The same meeting which resolved to do this went on record to congratulate Mr Henry Longhurst, a member, on winning the Amateur Championship of Germany. 

 

Subscriptions were 5 guineas at that time. In the early years, it was felt that there was no call for a Professional, but in 1922 Bill Moore was appointed and remained for over 40 years. 

 

Bedford escaped virtually all the bombing in World War II, but holes 11, 12 and 13 were reclaimed for the "Dig for Victory" campaign. Even as late at the 1940's there were few trees, or rough, on the course, but the years of Kenneth Vane-Percy's captaincy changed that. In 1954 the clubhouse was destroyed by fire, together with the bulk of the club records. For two years the club resided in Nissan huts until the new building was opened by Henry Longhurst in 1956. 

 

 

This building was our clubhouse and golfing home until a decision was taken that the old course at Biddenham was to be developed by the Freeholder, and approximately 900 houses constructed, together with a major link road joining the A6 with the A428. Once this decision was known, the members of Bedfordshire Golf Club decided to identify a new home where they could be masters of their own destiny for the long term future. This search took some time, but eventually an ideal piece of land was identified just a couple of miles further west of Bedford at Stagsden and having secured the freehold of the land, work began in earnest to build a comprenhesive range of golfing facilities to match the very best in the area. 

In September 2000 Bedfordshire Golf Club finally moved into its new home at the completed golf complex on the A422 at Stagsden. The new Bedfordshire Golf Club was opened by Laura Davies C.B.E, Britain's favourite lady golfer, on Saturday September 30th 2000, and provides a facility that caters for everyone who is interested in the game plus the additional facilities of banqueting and conference rooms. 

 

If you would like to know more about Bedfordshire Golf Club, to visit us or become a member, or to enquire about our meeting and banqueting facilities, simply call us on 01234 822555 or click here to complete our short enquiry form.