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==Sports clubs== Ruislip is represented by the [[Non-League football]] club [[Hillingdon Borough F.C.]], which plays at the Middlesex Stadium. The non-league club [[Wealdstone FC]] is based at the [[Grosvenor Vale]] Stadium, although the club is originally from [[Harrow, London|Harrow]] and have been based in Ruislip since 2008. Grosvenor Vale Stadium also played host to [[London Rangers F.C.|Ruislip Manor F.C.]] between 1938 and 2008, (when the ground was known by a different name){{citation needed|date=February 2020}} before the non-league club folded following a period of financial uncertainty during its latter two trading years.<ref name="hist">[http://tokyngtonfc.com/about-us/history/ History, Vision/Mission] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104112559/http://tokyngtonfc.com/about-us/history/ |date=4 November 2013 }} Tokyngton Manor F.C.</ref> Ruislip Rugby Club is based in West End Road and was formed in 1954, succeeding an earlier club from around 1950.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/ruislip/a/history-9684.html |title=History |year=2011 |publisher=Ruislip Rugby Club |access-date=19 October 2011}}</ref> The club's ground is at West End Road in Ruislip. Ruislip Golf Course, on Ickenham Road, was opened in 1922, and is operated by a private company on behalf of the London Borough of Hillingdon.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hillingdon.gov.uk/index.jsp?articleid=11141 |title=Ruislip Golf Course |date=12 January 2011 |publisher=London Borough of Hillingdon |access-date=24 June 2011 |archive-date=30 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120830033140/http://www.hillingdon.gov.uk/index.jsp?articleid=11141 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Ruislip is also the home of Eastcote Hockey Club, based at Kings College playing fields. The club was originally based in Eastcote, from where it took its name, but moved to the present location in 1964.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eastcotehockeyclub.com/history |title=The History |year=2011 |publisher=Eastcote Hockey Club |access-date=22 September 2011 |archive-date=25 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111025065923/http://www.eastcotehockeyclub.com/history |url-status=dead }}</ref> Ruislip is also home to [[McGovern Park]], which serves as the headquarters of [[London GAA]] as well as the main venue for all [[Gaelic games|Gaelic Games]] in London. The venue opened its doors in 2017 and its first match was a [[Connacht Senior Football Championship]] quarter-final clash between London and [[Leitrim county football team|Leitrim]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2017-05-28 |title=London gets new Gaelic games 'county stadium' |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-40076951 |access-date=2024-08-23 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref>
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