The 14th hole

The 14th in 1920

Stroke index 2, played due east from Hampermill Wood towards the foot of the old chalk pit. In the 1921 News of the World final Bert Seymour hit a drive of over 300 yards here, helped by the run of the ground. Jack Gaudin then missed a putt of a yard, and Seymour was back in the lead. Bernard Darwin, who knew it as the 8th, praised the iron second across a deep valley to a green set in a fold of the hillside, a favourite spot for spectators. From there, he adds, they could also watch balls dropping into the sand at the short hole that came next.^{1,5,6,9,12,15,16}

After 1936

Became the 8th. Darwin, writing in about 1937, still gives it 431 yards, but the later card has 409 yards and a bogey of 4, down from 5. A card from a round on the shortened public course in October 1949 also has a 409-yard hole, its 9th, so this hole was probably still in play then. The public course closed on 31 March 1952.

There today

The tee was in Hampermill Wood and the hole ran east along the northern part of the western meadow. Swain's plan draws no green, but it most likely sat at the north-west tip of today's Big Wood, just below the old chalk pit. In April 2025 Three Rivers District Council announced that Hampermill Wood was among the parts of the fields given village green status. The wood is also on Natural England's revised list of ancient woodland.