Youngstown Vindicator April 18th 1926
“London's first golf club for women exclusively has proved such a success that a movement has been started to organise others of its kind.
The club, tucked away at Mitcham Junction, where the country has shaken off the suburbs, was launched in 1893 and (is now) conducted by Mrs William Deane, formerly an international player, and Miss Betty Hayes. They play special attention to the needs of the working woman who finds it difficult to get a game of golf at the ordinary course because of the influx of men players.
Now and then, by special arrangement, men are allowed to play at Mitcham, but no mere man may become a full member of the club.
As a side line the women members grow all there own flowers and vegetables and in the summer gay supper parties are held in the open air. Alcoholic drinks are barred in the club.”
Mitcham Golf Club was established in 1924 and took over the men's course and club house from Prince's Golf Club but the Prince's Ladies Golf Club continued for another 6 years until its licence expired at the end of 1930. So for a few years there were two clubs sharing the Common – Mitcham Golf Club playing on the old Prince's Course and Princes's Ladies Golf Club playing on their old Ladies course (7 holes between the two railway lines and 11 on land used by our present 10th to 17thholes).
Mrs Deane, her husband, and Miss Hayes (actual names were Robert Heward Deane, Aletta Felicia Deane and Annie Harriet Hayes)also took over the licence to run Seaford Head Golf Club in 1929 when it became clear that no extension of the license on Mitcham Common would be possible.
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