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G H Preen
Donington Park
Donington Park is better known for motor racing and the Monsters of Rock festivals of the 1980s and 90s but it once had a golf course. A nine hole course was laid out in 1935 by well-known Nottingham professional, Tom Williamson to cater for those staying at Donington Hall and for local visitors who could buy a season ticket for two guineas (30 shillings for ladies).

The first, and I suspect only, professional was G H Preen who served his apprenticeship as assistant with W Dean at Dore and Totley. He was complimented on the condition of the course when the club played its first competition in December 1935.

He was still representing the club in a Derbyshire professionals v amateurs competition in October 1938 but I presume the golf course was taken over by the War Office early in World War II. It had been a POW camp in the First World War and, as late as 1950 the War Office stated that the park would not be de-requisitioned before 1952.

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