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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.
From the Cheshire Observer Saturday 27 June 1891. Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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
From "Golf" Friday 19 May 1893.
From "Golf" Friday 26 May 1893.
From "Golf" Friday 18 May 1894 - "At the opening of the new links at Leasowe, on Saturday the 5th, the captain of the club, Mr John Ball, jun., appeared on the links in a Red Coat."
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).
Above is the location of the original Leasowe golf course.