Monmouth Golf Club Monmouth Golf Club Monmouth Golf Club is an 18-hole golf club based just outside Monmouth at Leasbrook Lane, near Dixton. The course is located on high ground to the east of the town with views of the Welsh hills, the Forest of Dean and the Wye Valley. The club claims to be "one of the prettiest golf courses in Wales". The club has a short game practice area and a nine-hole practice putting green. Other facilities include a clubhouse, bar and shop The hole names on the course are: Monmouth Golf Club was formed on 25 June 1896 at a
Battle of the Sink Hole Battle of the Sink Hole The Battle of the Sink Hole was fought on May 24, 1815, after the official end of the War of 1812, between Missouri Rangers and Sauk Indians led by Black Hawk. According to Robert McDouall, the British commander in the area, the Sauk had not received official word from the British that the Treaty of Ghent had ended the war with the U.S. The battle was fought in a low spot near the mouth of the Cuivre River in Missouri, site of the present-day city of Old Monroe in what is now Lincoln County near