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There once were two golf clubs in Wembley. Wembley Golf Club, founded in 1896, was situated north of the Metropolitan Railway line in what is now the [[Fryent Country Park]]. The club closed in the late 1920s.<ref>[http://www.golfsmissinglinks.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=794 "Wembley Golf Club"], "Golf's Missing Links".</ref> Wembley Park Golf Club was founded in 1912 in [[Sir Edward Watkin]]'s [[Wembley Park]] pleasure gardens, improving on the 9-hole course that had opened, along with Watkin's Wembley Park, in 1896. The course itself became the site of the British Empire Exhibition.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.golfsmissinglinks.co.uk/index.php/england/south-east/london/795-gl-wembley-park-golf-club|title=Wembley Park Golf Club, Greater London.|last=Llewellyn|first=John|website=www.golfsmissinglinks.co.uk|access-date=2016-07-03}}</ref>

 

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