A £100 overdraft from the bank was necessary to offset the accessories (furniture painting etc.)
However with the rapidly increasing popularity of golf at the end of the 1960’s, the club decided to purchase more land and extend the course to 18 holes.
In 1970, negotiations were completed for the purchase of Caia Farm, which adjoined the existing 9-hole course, at a cost of £20,250.
An 18-hole course was planned although it was intended, at first, to confine the work to nine holes and use the existing nine holes to make the 18. The farm buildings and yard were to be converted into a clubhouse and car park.
By this time, the membership consisted 250 men, 75 ladies and 15 juniors.
The Caia Farmhouse
The newly acquired land consisted of 85 acres of undulating farmland. Almost before the ink was dry on the contract, earth-moving machinery had started to contour the pastureland while volunteer club members turned out to handpick stones from the soil. Ditches were re-sited, ponds weeded and the enthusiasm which the committee and members exhibited was truly magnificent. Arthur Joseph, then aged 90, and living in a cottage by the original 7th green, must have seen this combined effort with the aid of powered machinery very differently from his one-man effort nearly 40 years earlier.
The 18-hole course opened in 1971 and the clubhouse was officially opened on 20th May 1972.