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Kirkby Golf Club, Liverpool. (1929 - WW2)
First appeared in the late 1920s and continued until WW2.
Opening of the course in June 1929.
Liverpool Daily Post Thursday 27 June 1929. Image © Reach PLC. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
Liverpool Daily Post Monday 19 May 1930. Image © Reach PLC. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
From the 1933 to 1937 Golfer's Handbook; Secretary - F Trantom, 43 Condover Avenue, Orrell's Park, Liverpool. 18-hole and 9-hole; Visitors’ fees were 1/- a round of 18-holes, Sunday play was not permitted; The station at Fazakerley (LMS) was 1 ½ miles away.
Result of a bogey competition played in March 1935; W G Marsden (16), all square; J A Quane (21), 3down; H W Hilton (10), 5down; J Williams (12), 7down.
Below, the professional eventually appointed was W Hill in 1934.
From the Liverpool Echo Tuesday 24 April 1934. With thanks to Trinity Mirror. Digitised by Findmypast Newspaper Archive Limited. All rights reserved.
Liverpool Daily Post Friday 8 April 1938. Image © Reach PLC.
Below the course is ploughed up for food production in 1941.
From the Liverpool Echo Thursday 13 February 1941. Image © Trinity Mirror. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
Thanks to M C O'Brien for the following information and images.
The original courses closed at the time of WW2. The western side of the River Alt was used for farming and the east was used for the manufacturing of munitions.
In 1967 following reclamation and a redesign, the course reopened and thrived as there were few golf courses in that area of Liverpool.
The Kirkby Golf Club closed in 2016 and the lease of the land was taken over by a private company. The course is still there and the club has been renamed "Kirkby Valley Golf Club."
The nine-hole par 39 course is adjacent and overgrown. Features of this course can still be seen some 39 years since the nine-hole course closed.
The scorecard below is from the early 1990s. The course was slightly changed in the early 2000s due to the proximity of the M57.
Notification of the change of name for Kirkby GC members.
Scorecard from about 1992.
The golf course is marked on the above map. Reproduced from the {1937} Ordnance Survey Map. This course disappeared at the time of WW2.
"The ordnance survey map shows the club house on Wango Lane (left of picture). This is now a private residence but their garage was the original pro shop! The current 8th hole was the old first and what is now the 4th was the 9th as it made two loops that finished by the club house. This changed in approximately 1970 when a larger car park was required." Thanks to M C O'Brien.