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""Over 100 Years of Golfing History""
The club owes its existence to Lieutenant Colonel James Campbell who chaired the first meeting of the club on the 18th of October 1894 and became its first captain. Harper Campbell Perry became the first Hon Secretary and with the assistance of Author Jackson, these three are regarded as the founding fathers of the club. The proposed location of the links was Henry Middleton's land at Rosses Point, which had been immortalised in verse by Middleton's nephew W.B Yeats:
" My name is Henry Middleton, I have a small demesne, A small forgotten house that's set, On a storm bitten green."
James Campbell was familiar with this piece of ground because the Sligo militia, of which he was a Lt. Col, held their annual summer camps on the flat ground of Bomore. They also practised their artillery skills against the waves of the Atlantic from gun emplacements on Bomore Point. It is generally believed that the officers played golf over a few rudimentary holes laid out by army personnel long before the formal laying out of the course. Incidentally Bomore was also the venue for Sligo Races for many years as it was a natural amphitheatre for spectators who lined the high ground along the present fifth tee.
