The scene was the Fair Green in Athboy. It was a summer evening in 1951 and a number of local youths were hitting golf balls around the park with a variety of clubs from a set recently acquired by the McDonnell brothers, Jimmy and Benny.

A newcomer to the activity, Seamus Doyle, decided to have a go and his effort sent the battered golf ball in an arch over the boundary wall and there was a gently click the the ball glided into the sitting room of a nearby house - Pitch & Putt in Meath had started by accident.

There was an on the spot decision to organise a committee to supervise the activity and at a well attended open air general meeting, Green Park Golf Club came into being.

However, a County Louth man, nick (Yank) Rafferty, who was working in the area at the time knew that in Seapoint the game was called Pitch & Putt, and the name was quickly changed to "Athboy Pitch & Putt Club".

This news reached the ears of Jimmy Vaughan of the Irene Dublin Club and Athboy was soon affiliated ot the National Pitch & Putt Association.

First chairman of the club was Michael Coleman, one of the family in whose sitting room that historic Out of Bounds ended.

A club was started in Trim and when Ballivor came on stream the first Meath County Board was set up with the afforementioned Michael Coleman as Chairman with his club mate Frank Holland, as Secretary

The latter serving in that position for over ten yeard and is inviolved in the game since, currently as Vice Chairman of the Athboy Club.

Trim reps on that first County Board were Dan Mangan and John Kelly with Pierce Hiney as the Ballivor mainstay.

And began the first chapter in the history of Meath Pitch & Putt...