Royal Mid-Surrey Golf Club is winding back the clock with the Mothers and Daughters Open tomorrow, writes Jo Thesiger.

Mums and daughters from across the UK will contest this historic 27-hole foursomes event, which was first played in 1932.

In the increasingly commercial world of professional sport, the event has retained its traditional and quintessential amateur roots, which celebrates the passion for a sport passed down in families from generation to generation.

However, Mothers and Daughters day is not just a fun event and, for nearly 80 years, has attracted some of Britain’s leading women amateur golfers.

Many have found the added pressure and emotion of playing with a family member extremely challenging.

For examply, celebrated international Mollie Gourlay, after playing with her mother in 1932, admitted: “I have never been more nervous!”

The list of winners is covered with names of distinguished international golfers.

Legendary Pam Barton, a former member of Royal Mid Surrey, won the title with her mother in 1935, a year before she became British and US champion.

Others include Surrey’s Jill Thornhill and daughter Caroline Weeks, Liz Boatman and daughter Alex Howe, Lady Angela Bonnallack and daughter Glenna Beasley and, most notably, Angela Uzielli, who dominated the event from 1965, winning an astonishing 22 times with her mother Peggy Carrick and once with her daughter Caroline in 1996, before her death in 1999.

Looking to emulate these greats will be Surrey captain Sheila Stirling, who plays off an eight-handicap, partnering her 19-year-old daughter Heather. Both are members of Royal Mid Surrey.