{"id":713658,"date":"2026-07-27T13:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713658\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T13:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:56:12","slug":"13-nostalgic-old-pictures-of-golf-and-golfers-in-oxfordshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713658\/","title":{"rendered":"13 nostalgic old pictures of golf and golfers in Oxfordshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Oxfordshire is full of golf courses, as these old photos show, with greens stretching from Thame to Kidlington, Waterstock to Burford, and beyond.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In fact, the county has more than 30 golf courses where keen players get together at various events throughout the year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"Andrew Fenwick of Swindon Marriott Hotel and Jean-Paul Wyburn of Broome Manor golf course organised a golf day to raise funds for a charity ball, 2013\"\/>Andrew Fenwick of Swindon Marriott Hotel and Jean-Paul Wyburn of Broome Manor golf course organised a golf day to raise funds for a charity ball, 2013 (Image: Stuart Harrison)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/26404921.crazy-golf-say-goodbye-westgate-oxford-next-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Crazy golf &#8216;say goodbye&#8217; to Westgate Oxford next week<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This picture gallery shows some of the photo opportunities from the county&#8217;s courses over the past two decades.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  There are images of golfers raising funds for charity, winning competitions or protecting their beloved green spaces from development.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It even includes one picture of a golf course turned sled run, when snow covered the fairway.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Take a look back through this Oxford Mail archive gallery to see nostalgic old pictures of golf and golfers in Oxfordshire over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oxfordshire is full of golf courses, as these old photos show, with greens stretching from Thame to Kidlington,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-713658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}