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| Coordinates | 52°9′54″N0°10′50″E / 52.16500°N 0.18056°E Coordinates: 52°9′54″N0°10′50″E / 52.16500°N 0.18056°E |
| Location | Shelford Bottom, Cambridgeshire, England |
| Established | October 1901 |
| Total holes | 36 |
Gog Magog Golf Club is a golf club, located in Shelford Bottom, Cambridgeshire, England. It is located about 4 miles south of Cambridge.
The Club was established in October 1901, founded by John Bascombe Lock. [1] [2] The course was designed by W. Duncan. Herbert Strong, the professional from Sandwich, would start his golf career here in 1902. [3] The Wright Cup was held at the Gog Magog Golf Club in the early 1970s. [4] Howard Florey was a player here while at Cambridge. [5] The golf course was historically "reserved for graduate members of the University of Cambridge". [5]
A second course was established in 1999, the Wandlebury, which is also voted the second best golf course in the county after the old course. In 2007, the Wandlebury course was used for the regional qualifiers to the Open Championship. On the hill above the course is an Iron Age plateau fort. [6]
The Gog Magog Club is also well known for holding the annual Lagonda Trophy, which has been won by many big golfing names such as Luke Donald and Lee Westwood.
Gog Magog Golf Course is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest. [7]
Cambridgeshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East of England government statistical region, and popularly known as one of the three counties of East Anglia. The largest city is Peterborough, followed by the county town of Cambridge. In 1974, modern Cambridgeshire was created through the amalgamation of Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely with Huntingdon and Peterborough, which including the historic counties of Huntingdonshire and the Soke of Peterborough. A majority of the county is locally governed by Cambridgeshire County Council in combination with the lower tier non-metropolitan district councils of Cambridge, East Cambridgeshire, Fenland, Huntingdonshire, and South Cambridgeshire. Peterborough however is governed as a unitary authority with one council, Peterborough City Council. It is bordered by Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the development of penicillin.
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