12/07/2026
Every golf club has one.
A weekend where names are added to honour boards, old stories are retold, and… for a brief moment… handicaps become a topic of unusually detailed discussion.
The Club Championship is one of golf’s oldest traditions, yet few stop to think where it came from. Long before Stableford points, WHS and GPS watches, clubs gathered once a year to answer a much simpler question:
Who is the best golfer in the club?
Here’s a brief history of one of the game’s great annual rituals.
And to everyone teeing it up this weekend… may your handicap emerge entirely unchanged.