The 7th hole

The 7th in 1920

The longest hole on the card, played due west along the north side of the orchard, with bunkers near the tee and halfway and mounds by the green. In May 1919 the club reported serious waterlogging here and at the 8th, 17th and 18th, which would need work during the year. From 1936 it was the opening hole, which Darwin describes as a shoulder-opening hole of some 460 yards, well bunkered on both sides.^{1,5,6,11,12,13}

After 1936

Became the 1st. Darwin says so directly, and the later card gives the new 1st as 458 yards.

There today

The tee was on the rough grass by the old track line, south of the end of Green Lane. The fairway ran west across today's football pitches to a green near the southern edge of the fields, north of the Fulford Grove houses, which now cover the old orchard.

Look for

Don't expect old bumps across the pitches. The council describes the east of the site as flat, and John Swain says this eastern end was levelled in the 1950s for football, cricket and rugby.