The club was established in 1869 by undergraduates Andrew Graham Murray (Trinity College) and George Gosset (Trinity College). They played golf on Midsummer Common and in Royston. Having petered out by 1871, the club was revived in 1876 by another undergraduate, William T. Linskill (Jesus College). He negotiated the laying out of a course on Coldham's Common, got a Varsity Match going in 1878 and remained closely involved with the club until the mid-1890s. Although members also played on the Gogmagog Links and at the Royal Worlington and Newmarket golf course, in Mildenhall, Coldham's Common remained in use until 1902 when the club officially moved to Whitwell Hill, Coton, on land leased from King's College. The Coton course was closed in 1915 and after World War One, local play focused on the Mildenhall course. From the earliest days, the Club employed a golf professional for coaching purposes. The first female player to be part of the Varsity Match team was Fiona Macdonald (Trinity College) in 1986. The first Oxford and Cambridge Ladies Match occurred in 1998. It did not have Blue status. More information on the current activities of the club appears on its website at http://www.cugc.uk/. For further information on the early history of the club, see Michael B. Morrison The worst golf course ever: Coldham Common. A history of Cambridge University Golf Club 1869-1919 (2016).