[1] Peak Practice golf driving range at Barms Farm is located next to the course.

The club rented the land from the Borough Council, which had agreed to buy the grazing rights on Fairfield Common from the local farmers.

Jack Simpson (winner of the 1884 Open Championship) was recruited as the club's first golf professional.

[4][5] The 9th par 5 hole is called Standside, which refers to where the grandstand of Buxton Racecourse once stood.

[6] In 1899 the Ladies Golf Club's nine hole course was set out on Temple Meads (which was developed as a housing estate in the 1960s).