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It is a fascinating thought that people have now been playing golf in Welshpool for over 110 years. Golf is now thankfully played by people from all walks of life - a far cry from 1894 when only the gentry played. Doubtless they would envy us playing on the Golfa Hill, our paradise with idyllic views and golf holes that fill visitors with awe and members with the challenges and joys that are the game of golf.
Welshpool Golf Club started in 1894, with the links being in the Deer Park of Powys Castle. 14 years later finds the Royal and Ancient Game successfully established on the Red Bank with the Club House being an old infectious diseases hospital. It was during 1930 that a new pavilion was erected in the present location today - the Golfa Hills. It was then that the course was set out by James Braid and built by John Stutt. Mr Braid stated that he, "was more impressed than ever with the potentialities of the course and its prospects of becoming widely known."
However, just three years later, the Club House and its entire contents were destroyed by fire. Within the year, though, a new, handsome Club House was erected, this time, with residential quarters for the Club's staff.
1953 saw the Club celebrate the Coronation of H.R.H Princess Elizabeth. This was followed in 1962 with a reduction of holes to nine for economical reasons. Only four years later, the course was restored to 18 holes.
It was during the mid 1970's to the end of the decade that were the most turbulent in the Club's history as growing unease toward the way the club was being handled. Members felt that as it was a limited company, profits would go to the shareholders rather than the Club members at large. As a result, in 1978, the Club became what it is today - a "members club". | 
