Poloc Cricket Club
Poloc Cricket Club is a cricket club based at Pollok Country Park in south Glasgow, Scotland.
The club has approximately 115 members who participating in cricket, tennis and winter golf. The club's Shawholm ground encompasses the cricket oval, three all-weather tennis courts, and the world's only six-hole golf course approved by The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews. The clubhouse also hosts pool, table tennis, darts and poker tournaments in the winter months.
Poloc Cricket Club's two principal senior cricket teams play under the names "Poloc" and "Shawholm". Poloc play in the Cricket Scotland organised Cricket Scotland League whilst Shawholm play in the Western District Cricket Union's ("WDCU") West Cricket Scotland Reserve League. Another XI - the Poloc Panthers - plays in the WDCU Evening League and in the WDCU Sunday League.
Founded in 1878, Poloc Cricket Club spent its first season on the site of the old Pollokshaws Race Course and in 1880 moved to its current location at Shawholm.
A pavilion was acquired by the club from the now-defunct Pollokshields Athletic Club, also located on Pollok Estates, and the building was moved to Shawholm on rollers. In the same year, the main avenue from Pollokshaws Road to Pollok House was opened, running past the north side of the ground in what is now Pollok Park. This avenue still provides the approach to Shawholm with the River Cart to the left.
The club's winter golf section was formed in 1889, with bowls, putting and archery being added in the years following.
Full tenancy of the current 6-acre (24,000 m2) site was granted to the club in 1888 by Sir John Stirling-Maxwell, 10th Baronet who continued to be involved in Poloc's affairs until his death in 1956.
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