Leasowe Golf Club, Cheshire. (1891 - 1893)
The club was founded in 1891.
For two years the club played on a course near Moreton lighthouse.
Below is a report on the opening of the course.
Entry from the Golfing Annual Vol. V 1891-92 - Leasowe Golf Club, Instituted May 1891; Entrance Fee, £1/1s and Subs £1/1s; number of members, nearly 70; President; W Otho N Shaw, J.P; Vice-Presidents, J E Periin and Thomas Webster; Captain, John Ball, jun; Committee - J Morris, A T Salvidge, John Smith, D Ball, F A Cooper, J Cromarty, M Bonmphray, R Leek; Treasurer, C H Smith, Secretary - C Nigel Stewart, Stand Farm, Hoylake; Green, Leasowe Common; Green-keeper, T Doyle.
The green is one of nine-holes, perfectly dry in both summer and winter. It is full of real golfing hazards, with natural well turfed greens. The hazards consist of ditches, rushes, furze, water dykes and cops. There is plenty of room for an extension to 18-holes. The clubhouse is about ten minutes walk from Moreton Station on the Wirrall Railway. There are no conveyances to be had unless specially ordered.
Competition result from May 1893
The Leasowe club moved to a new nine-hole course in August 1893 and they are still at this location. Many of the Leasowe clubs records were lost in a fire in 1963.
When the Leasowe club abandoned its original course the Moreton Ladies’ Golf Club moved in (see separate entry for Moreton Ladies).