The North Foreland Golf Club started out as just a wealthy man's playground filled with gothic "ruins" and castles, but after the land was passed to several different landowners it started its magnificent transformation into the golf club we all know and love today.

Lord Avebury and William Capel Slaughter were responsible for the founding of North Foreland Golf Club in 1903 and, with Sir Luke Fildes and Clifford Brookes, sat on the first committee of the new club.

Within a few years thoughts turned to enlarging the course to 18 holes and it was then that the committee turned to another member, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, later Lord Northcliffe. Harmsworth was the owner of the large estate on the other side of convent road.