Golf tees off to a wobbly start in Walcha

By Bob Walsh
Updated June 14 2017 - 12:23pm, first published 11:05am
Original style: The clubhouse built in the 1930s for the Walcha Golf Club at its old links. This photo was taken after the building had been re-erected at The Lake.
Original style: The clubhouse built in the 1930s for the Walcha Golf Club at its old links. This photo was taken after the building had been re-erected at The Lake.

The first Walcha Golf Club was formed in 1907 with J. A. Nivison the president and Dr Stephens the secretary-treasurer. It played at nearby Ohio Station for a few months before opening a five-hole course on a portion of the Apsley River reserve then bounded by Hill, Middle and Pakington streets.

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