Royal Mid-Surrey Golf Club is bordered by the River Thames in south-west London and the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew.

Golf has been played on this stretch of royal parkland since 1892, but it was the club’s professional, J H Taylor, five-time Open Champion, who set about transforming the landscape into two 18-hole golf courses. It gained royal status in 1926 when the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII, became captain.