When Tanks Took Over the Fairways
The War Department requisitioned Pyecombe Golf Club in Sussex in April 1942 for tank training. The ground that had been laid out for golf was subjected to the demands of wartime vehicles, and restoring the course after the war required substantial work. The club's history records a restoration estimate of £8,650 in 1948. Decades later, an unexploded wartime bomb was found in the 15th bunker in 2011 — an extraordinary reminder of the landscape's other life.
More than a golf course
The War Department requisitioned Pyecombe Golf Club in Sussex in April 1942 for tank training. The ground that had been laid out for golf was subjected to the demands of wartime vehicles, and restoring the course after the war required substantial work. The club's history records a restoration estimate of £8,650 in 1948. Decades later, an unexploded wartime bomb was found in the 15th bunker in 2011 — an extraordinary reminder of the landscape's other life.