Mrs Marshall said she took over as managing director of the business in 2008 before her father died in 2013.

She said: “So there has only been three of us running Beeston Fields in the 101 years it has been in existence.

“I think that is quite extraordinary really, and I think I am quite unique in being a female managing director of a golf club.

“I don’t think there are many because golf is quite male centric so it’s something I am quite proud of.”

She said during her tenure, she firstly refurbished the clubhouse.

“As time went on, we built up a really nice Sunday lunch venue. We would do 80 to 100 lunches each Sunday.

“Having updated the clubhouse, we moved onto to the Walled Garden. Having been beautiful in the 1940s and 50s, it had become derelict.”

She said her and her partner – Alastair Wright – created it together.

“It is the thing I’m most proud of because we created something that is really beautiful and very successful.

“The rest of the golf club was there before but The Walled Garden feel like it’s ours.”

She said it had been the venue for more than 1000 weddings since it opened in 2012.