The proverbial 19th hole at Forest Hills Golf Club could be drunk completely dry on Saturday.

That’s because the go-ahead club are celebrating their 25th anniversary with a family evening – which will include a hog roast and live music – at which 170 people are expected to attend.

Before that there will be an 18-hole tournament in which 130 people will take part so it’s going to be a full-on day at the club.

Ed Breton, who has owned and run the club with his wife Alison for almost eight years, will be among those teeing off on Saturday and he could be one of the players to watch as he plays off five.

“It should be a good day,” said Alison, who moved to the Forest of Dean from Kingston-on-Thames with her family in 2009.

“It’s a lovely course set in the heart of the Forest of Dean. It’s a long course and one of the big advantages we’ve got is that it drains really well so it’s open pretty much all the year round.”

Alison won’t be playing on Saturday – “I hardly ever play,” she admitted – but a considerable number of the club’s 530 or so members will be out on the fairways.

Alison is really pleased with the size of the club’s membership: “We’ve increased it substantially since we’ve been here and it’s one of our big successes.

“This month is ‘women into golf’ and our professional Sue Bamford has been holding taster sessions for groups like the WI and they have gone down very well.”

While Alison says she rarely gets out on the course these days, she will be digging out the plus fours next month for a charity tournament that she organises at the club.

“It’s to raise money for the Pancreatic Cancer Charity in memory of my dad John Winkler,” she said. “It’s the second year I’ve organised it and I can play in it because you don’t need a handicap to take part.”

It will take place on Saturday 8th July but Alison is unlikely to bump into her two sons, Charlie, 18, or Louis, 12, on any of the greens that day.

“They don’t play golf,” she laughed. “When we lived in Surrey we ran a facility for a hockey club and now they both play for Gloucester City Hockey Club.”