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A brief history of Yelverton Golf Club

1904	Club formed, playing on a 9-hole course extending south-west from the present club-house.
1910/11	A further 9 holes are constructed, the ‘Higher Down Course’, still to the west of Golf Links Road. An inaugural match was played between J H Taylor and Harry Vardon, with local Professionals Braund and Bickle. See below for the golf balls used.
1915	Half of the course reverts to agricultural use, in aid of the War effort.
1919	Agreement signed with The Maristowe Estate and the Roborough Commoners Association for a course on Roborough Down. Herbert Fowler, designer of Walton Heath and many other courses, is commissioned to design the course – essentially the course in play now.
1925	New clubhouse opened, the one currently in use.
1939 – 1945	World War II; half of course closed for duration.
1949	Fowler’s 8th, 9th and 10th holes are abandoned, and the present 16th, 17th and 18th holes are introduced.
1994	Major refurbishment of clubhouse undertaken.
2001	Foot and Mouth epidemic closes the course for 10 weeks.
2004	Club celebrates its Centenary with competitions in June, and Dinner and Dance on 4th December.
2006	Club hosts the English Golf Union Seniors Amateur Championships.

These are the golf balls used by JH Taylor and Harry Vardon at the official opening of the course in 1911. They played an exhibition match with the two local professionals Braund and Bickle. Taylor and Vardon were half of the dominant force in world golf at the time known as the Triumvirate, winning ten major championships between them. Today's equivalent of Tiger Woods and Padraig Harrington coming for a game! JH Taylor was born in Northam and started his career as a caddie at Royal North Devon.