1858

Queen Victoria famously visited the site that was to become Puttenham Golf Club when she stood on Frowsbury Hill (now the 2nd Tee) on a warm summer’s day on July 7th, 1858 to take the salute of 20,000 members of the British Army during a Royal Field Day. The Queen and Prince Albert can be seen on the top left of the painting above.

2008

On 8th July 2008, the Club commemorated this event in style when Queen Victoria’s great, great, great grandson, His Royal Highness Prince Edward the Earl of Wessex (pictured above), attended a day of celebration and unveiled a plaque on the very spot where his ancestor had stood 150 years earlier. Puttenham Golf Club can therefore make some small claim to Royal connections.