Golf Among the Ramparts Since 1891

Painswick Golf Club, founded in 1891, is one of Gloucestershire's oldest courses, laid out inside an Iron Age hillfort. In 1891, David Brown — winner of the 1886 Open Championship at Musselburgh, who later moved to the Malvern Club — was charged with an unusual commission: lay out a golf course inside a 2,500-year-old ...