The Ooty Club is recognised as the site of the snooker origin.

All Over the Place: Fifty Thousand Miles by Sea, Air, Road and Rail. By Compton Mackenzie. 1948

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I was gratified to hear that my article about the origin of Snooker was framed in the Ooty Club. When I was asked to hand the Cup to Joe Davis at Thurston’s in 1938 I seized the opportunity to tell how on a rainy afternoon in 1886 a Gunner subaltern took out the pool balls at the Ooty Club and invented Snooker. Freshmen at Woolwich used to be called snookers. This subaltern was afterwards General Sir Neville Chamberlain. I wrote an article for the Billiard Player and had a letter from the General to say that my account was exactly accurate and how glad he was that the many false claims for the origin of snooker were now finally contradicted.