From a meeting in the Workmen’s Hall to eighteen holes reshaped around the M1, the club has been part of life in Chapeltown and High Green for well over a hundred years.
The inaugural meeting of Tankersley Park Golf Club was held in the Workmen’s Hall, Lane End, Chapeltown on Monday 11th November 1907. Within a month a committee with officers was formed and the club appeared in the 1907–08 edition of Golfing Annual with 60 members.
In March 1924, the 23 year old Arthur Storey, an assistant from Hallamshire Golf Club, was appointed as “pro come greenkeeper”, together with his wife as the first stewardess. This coincided with the opening of the 18-hole course on the 12th April 1924.
In May 1961, the first signs of the M1 came. The proposed line of the Motorway would seriously affect a number of holes, with three holes being impossible to play, and three others would have to be shortened. New holes and extended tees were introduced to give the course its current layout. The full Course was officially played for the first time on Captain’s Day, 3rd September 1967.
The original Tankersley shield is the centre-piece, with a couple of additions. In the top right of the shield is an oak tree, representing the Stafford Oak where local legend has it the first Earl of Strafford was found hiding prior to his execution; in the bottom left is Lady’s Folly, built by the 2nd Marquis of Rockingham for his Lady. Daniel Defoe visited the original deer park – hence the two stags, a helmet facing left symbolises a gentleman and reminds us of the Battle of Tankersley Moor. The motto needs no translation.