The NRA wasinaugurated by Queen Victoria in 1860. The Club was adopted into theLondon Scottish Rifle Volunteers, as shown by a Regimental Order tothat effect dated 2nd May 1866.

The London Scottish Golf Club's first headquarters were situated at Mrs Doggett's cottage under the shadow of the Windmill. Lord Elcho was our first President of whom Edward Scudamore in his Royal Wimbledon Centenary booklet said: "If Lord Elcho entered the Clubhouse I should deem it wise to stand to attention".

In 1871 it threw open its arms to all comers, up to that date being restricted to members of Scottish and other Volunteer Corps, the Militia, and residents within a certain distance of the Common.

A great increase in its membership ensued which necessitated increased accommodation, and in 1871 the Club moved its headquarters to the Iron House. By 1874, the civilians, numbers had increased to 250 as opposed to 50 Corps members. This led to a great deal of friction with Lord Elcho, whose word was law, and after many compromises Elcho insisted that has CO he must always have the right of veto. This matter of the veto, continued to rumble on and was discussed at every committee meeting from November 1880 until February1881, finally agreeing to a peaceful separation and friendly co-existence.

The civilians set up on the Wimbledon Village side of the Common. The two clubs co-exsisted playing from their respective club houses until 1907, when the Royal Wimbledon Club constructed its own new course on Warren Farm adjoining the Common. In 1908 the Wimbledon Town Golf Club was formed later to be renamed Wimbledon Common Golf Club in 1928.

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''There is an old-fashioned air about golf at Wimbledon - it has at least one supreme virtue that of naturalness; those clumps of gorse and the deep ravines where the birches grow were put there by the hand of nature herself, who if she be not so cunning, is at any rate infinitely more artistic than any golfing architect''. Bernard Darwin CBE,  Historic Golf Courses of the British Isles.

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Address: Clubhouse, Windmill Enclosure. Wimbledon Common, SW19 5NQ

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