Instituted 1895 affiliated 1910. The records of Dooks Golf Club are missing prior to 1910. However, it would appear that Dooks has used the following names, depending on who was running the course at the time. Caragh Lake, Caragh and Dooks, Dooks, and Glenbeigh.There is a tradition in the club that golf was played here by the military as far back as 1886. In an article in Irish Golf, of November, 1936, the Hon. Secretary Mrs. Hickson says "officially founded in 1895, it is really in existence for close on fifty years." Mrs. Hickson went on to say she had played there, with the late Lord Kitchener and Messrs David Roche and C. Downing.

The club was formed, under the auspices of the Director of the Great Southern Hotel, at Caragh and a few of the residents in the neighbourhood. There were fifty members in 1899 and had a small pavilion of its own, on competition days they had to use the Lodge. The Hon. Secretary at the time, was F. R. Bateman, of Glenbeigh.