Rochford Hundred Golf Club is definitely unique. Few golf clubs can claim to have their home in a building which as a Hall began life around 1480, no other can boast that Queen Anne of Henry VIII fame was accused of having incest within its precincts before she lost her head and there is no record of any other golfers finding a sack of primed World War Two Mills Bombs in their midst when 'recapturing' their premises from the RAF and Army at the end of hostilities.

The term 'hundred' was an area to raise 100 men in case of strife, but this is not the complete definition. In King Edgar's reign in 973, areas of land were divided into 'hundreds' consisting of possibly several villages controlled by 100 men. In Norman Conquest times, the description was regularised. Essex had several 'hundreds' with Rochford - listed in the Domesday Book - being the largest. And 'hundred' was used for centuries before being replaced by 'union' and later by 'council'.

In 1896 the club moved from Southchurch to the meadows of Rochford Hall. In 1924 James Braid and J.H.Taylor, together with the renowned golf course architect Frederick Hawtree were invited to redesign the course. Additional land was obtained raising the acreage to 98 and the result is largely the course we play today - 6,300 yards from the white tee's compared with the previous 4,010 yards.