about 171 yards between our plotted tee and green
The 6th hole
Red square: the tee. Green dot with a flag: the green. Positions are good to about 30 to 50 metres. On a phone, tap the map once to move it.
The 6th in 1920
The first of the three short holes on the c.1920 card, played west-south-west with bunkers short of the green. In the morning round of the 1921 News of the World final, Bert Seymour and Jack Gaudin both took three here. In the afternoon Gaudin pushed his tee shot into the rough and went over the green into a bunker, and Seymour's three against his five put Seymour one hole ahead. The Sphere of June 1922 pictured the 6th green with sandy bunkers in front and the clubhouse behind. A photograph from the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News of 4 November 1922 showed Ted Ray putting on it at a county championship, though Golf's Missing Links, which reproduces the photograph, dates that championship to November 1920. John Swain's notes on a 1928 aerial photo point out the bunkers guarding the sixth green. As Darwin's 18th it was a short home hole with plenty of trouble round the green.1,2,5,6,7
After 1936
Became the 18th, the new home hole (178 yards on the later card). Writing in 2012, John Swain said the first green of the Oxhey Park nine-hole course, laid out in 1991, was on the site of the old 6th. That course has since closed.
There today
The tee was in the rough grass about 75 metres west of Prestwick Road. The green lay just south of where the Green Lane track ends, at the east edge of today's football pitches.
Out on the fields? See how far you are from this tee and green.
Today's woods, water and buildings, with the hole drawn over them. North is up.