A History of Rutland County Golf Club

The course begins heading east along the site of the lost medievil village of Hardwicke and skirts the eastern boundary of the disused wartime airfield, RAF Woolfox Lodge, on which one of our founder members crash-landed in aLancaster Bomber during WW2.

The 16th hole plays directly through the Battle of Losecoat Field fought in 1470 between the army of Edward IV and the supporters of the House of Warwick. 10,000 men were said to have perished when the King's artillery routed the rebels and slaughtered them in the woods, now known as 'Bloody Oaks'.