Q Golf - Official online magazine for Golf Queensland Spring 2012 | Page 22

The Toowoomba Golf Club was the next
Club formed in Queensland in August of
1896. A month later, play commenced
on a nine hole layout on Draytons Road.
The Club moved on one or two more
occasions including to a layout in the
grounds of the Clifford Park Race Course
before a period of consolidation between
1909 and 1926.
During that 17 year period the Club
utilised a layout created in the north of
Toowoomba in 1909, much of it with
inmate labour at the Willowburn Asylum
on which grounds the facility was created.
In the early 1900’s the arrival in
Toowoomba in 1903 of Ernie Gill, a
credentialed amateur from Melbourne,
gave the game a boost in the region
and his knowledge of the gam H[