Club History
Serving Squash in the Deep South Since 1972
Organiser of the prestigious pre-season Tuna Marine squash tournament Tony Deneys, middle, drawing names out of a hat with Fish Hoek resident and former director of Tuna Marine Brian Cohen, left, and former chairman of the Fish Hoek Squash Club Frank Guthrie, right.
The club was the brainchild of Howard Wood and Geoff Jones, who roped in Frank Guthrie and Tim Clampett, and a meeting was held in September 1970, with about 100 interested parties, at the old library in Beach Road.
According to a March 1969 newspaper clipping from the archives of the Fish Hoek Valley Museum, a man at the meeting said the club would be a “white elephant” when Mr Wood said: “We’ll be playing squash by the end of this year.”
Mr Wood became the club’s president, Mr Guthrie the chairman, and Mr Clampett the secretary. Terry Allen was treasurer and there were four additional committee members, Peter Von Maltitz, Clive Duffell, Bill Radloff and Geoff Jones.
By May 1971, the club had 70 interested members and the committee conducted an extensive study into the viability of squash courts.
The committee’s findings were submitted, together with a letter of motivation and projected budget, to the Fish Hoek council, which agreed to lend the club R16 000 for the first two courts, which are now courts three and four.
The courts were opened to members for play on December 22, 1971, but the club was officially opened on January 21, 1972, by councillor Morthland Cronwright.