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About 500bc - Bronze Age Burial Barrow For full account click here
1921 Horses level one of the greens.
Designer Arthur Croome.  
1923 The 18 hole course is opened; the clubhouse was then housed at the Wheatsheaf Hotel (now the Links). Charles Ambrose plays off the 1st (now the 10th) tee - the course is the reverse of its present design.  
World War II. Liphook is a hub of military depots; the course is photographed by the Luftwaffe.  
1949. The old course design is changed to its present layout.  
1961. The new clubhouse is opened.  
1963. Angela Bonallack beats Elizabeth Chadwick in the final of the English Ladies Close Championship.  

1973. The first Admirals Cup and their pennants are piped up the flagpole.

 

1983. Prisoners en route to the Isle of Wight escape from their warders and disturb Liphook ladies playing their monthly medal.