A golf club is celebrating its centenary with a Titanic Ball.

Woodcote Park Golf Club was opened in the same year the ill-fated liner sank on its maiden voyage.

But the club has survived two World Wars and is still going strong.

Their centenary ball is already a sell-out and has been moved to Selsdon Park Hotel for greater capacity.

And there are plenty more celebrations in store for its 500 members.

The original layout for the club was imprinted on the 137-acre site by the club's first professional Tom Winton under the expert guidance of Harry Vardon.

He was joined by fellow multiple Open winner James Braid to open the course with a special exhibition match. The course was at the forefront of equality, allowing female members since its opening day, some seven years before women were given the vote.

Like many other Surrey courses, Woodcote Park also had to survive the traumas of the First and Second World Wars, during which many members were killed or wounded.

In 1943 three holes were commandeered for agricultural production, while 2,186 high explosive bombs and 160 flying bombs fell within just a four mile radius of the club.

But remarkably the course itself escaped a direct hit.

The club was again threatened in 1966 when the proposed routing of the M23 took the super highway across the corner of the course around the 12th and 13th holes.

But underfunding meant the motorway eventually finished at Hooley, some miles to the south.

A major landmark in the club's history, and one that helped its survival, came in 1950 when the members were given the chance to buy the freehold for £15,000 – a snip at the time, but equivalent to more than £1million at today's values.

In his book Centenary Celebration book, club member Michael Breen said: "The transaction, so uncertain at the time, has put the club on a sound footing ever since.

“It is perhaps the chief reason for the club's survival and given a keen and committed membership the future for Woodcote Park seems firmly assured."