The members who went on.

Rotherham’s membership rolls include some of the most accomplished players in modern English amateur and professional golf. The list below covers only the most-known names; the club has produced a much wider lineage of county and regional champions.

Danny Willett · 2016 Masters Champion

Joined Rotherham as a teenager in 2005. Within two years: Club Champion, Yorkshire Amateur Champion, English Amateur Champion (2007). Made the 2007 Walker Cup squad at Royal County Down. World No. 1 amateur. Turned professional and won eight times on the European Tour. On Sunday 10 April 2016 he won the Masters at Augusta National after Jordan Spieth’s collapse at the twelfth — the first English Masters champion since Nick Faldo. The club granted Life Membership. His Walker Cup bag is on display in the clubhouse. Full story: Willett vs Walker.

Ben Schmidt · Youngest-ever Brabazon winner

Ben Schmidt won the English Men’s Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship (the Brabazon Trophy) at age sixteen — the youngest winner in the championship’s history. In the same calendar year he also won the Carris Trophy, making him only the fourth player ever to claim both in a single year, after Hine (1949), Lyle (1975), and Baker (1985).

The supporting cast

Matt Evans, Sam Haywood, Neil Walker, James Mason and a wider group of county-level competitors continue to fly the Rotherham flag in Yorkshire and English amateur events. The Junior Section, which produced both Willett and Schmidt, remains the engine room.