In the early 1920's three brothers, Bertram, Henry and Sidney Hill, were approached by a Mr Fox, a professional golfer, with a proposition to open a new golf club. Mr Fox had been offered an area of land in Potters Bar on very favourable terms. He had walked the land and believed that a very beautiful eighteen hole golf course could be built there. Although Potters Bar was some 15 miles from central London the land was within walking distance of the railway station and therefore accessible to members from London and the suburbs.

A corporation was formed and the first meeting of the Board took place on 6th February 1923, the Directors being the three brothers Hill and two bankers Mr Jack Watson and Mr Arthur Withers and a Mr Maurice Rottersman. Incorporated into the charter of the Company were the words: -

NO PERSON, EITHER MAN OR WOMAN, SHALL BE DENIED MEMBERSHIP BECAUSE OF RACE, CREED OR COLOUR.

At a meeting of the Directors on 5th March 1923 it was resolved that the Company should enter into a contract with Bovis Ltd to construct the golf club. Bovis were delighted to undertake the task and, most importantly, agreed that payment for the work should be made at the Club's convenience.

In June 1923 further Directors were appointed and, most unusually for the time, one of them was a woman, Mrs A. Austin.

There is evidence that the great golfer and course designer James Braid prepared the designs and plans for the course for the sum of £250. The actual building of the course was done by a group of gardeners employed by the Club using a "gang mower" comprising five small mowers linked together by a piece of timber and pulled by a horse purchased from the local butcher for £20.

On the 27th September 1924 the course was officially opened with exhibition matches played by J. H. Taylor, F. Ray, J. Braid and A. Herd all ex British Open champions.

The Club went through a difficult period during the second world war as members were in the army and those that weren't found it difficult to travel. Parts of the course were requisitioned by the army, a concrete "pill-box" still exists between the 11th green and 12th tee. Other parts were ploughed up for farming. What was left was maintained by a small but dedicated group of members.

In 1948 the Company owning the Club was dissolved and a new one created in which every golfing member has a share and equal voting rights. A Board of Directors was elected to run the Club on behalf of the members, and that is how the Club exists today.