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Cheshire

Around 100 golf clubs are members of the Cheshire Union of Golf Clubs, which itself is affiliated to the Northern Counties Group, a body comprising the six most northerly golf unions in England, along with the Isle of Man. The Cheshire Union does a fine job organizing annual competitions for boys, men and senior men within the county and its representative men’s team has won the Northern Counties league on four occasions since 1990. The Cheshire County Ladies’ Golf Association came into being in 1949, some twenty-nine years after male golfers in the county formed their golf union. There are many fine inland courses to be found in Cheshire – including Delamere Forest and Sandiway – but the Royal Liverpool links at Hoylake on The Wirral is far and away the top track in the county. One of only nine courses currently on the Open rota, it first hosted the famed championship back in 1897. Following a 39-year absence, the event returned to Hoylake for the 11th time in 2006 and it was held over the links again in 2014 and 2023. Our Cheshire Best in County rankings were updated in August 2023.

  1. Royal Liverpool Golf Club

    Cheshire, United Kingdom

    Without doubt, Royal Liverpool Golf Club is a tough links. Only six holes are in the dunes – otherwise there is little protection from the ever-changing Hoylake wind.

  2. Delamere Forest Golf Club

    Cheshire, United Kingdom

    Delamere Forest Golf Club is a classical Herbert Fowler designed course where the architect made full use of the natural, undulating heathland.

  3. Wallasey Golf Club

    Cheshire, United Kingdom

    Wallasey Golf Club, world famous as the "Home of Stableford". An undiluted links course with its undulating fairways framed with spectacular dunes.

  4. Sandiway Golf Club

    Cheshire, United Kingdom

    Sandiway Golf Club holds your interest right from the off with the opening seven holes having a different par to the last.

  5. Prestbury Golf Club

    Cheshire, England

    Founded in 1920, Prestbury Golf Club has matured and developed into a fine parkland course - it's a real Cheshire jewel.

  6. Stockport Golf Club

    Cheshire, United Kingdom

    Stockport Golf Club's course layout today measures less than 6,400 yards from the back tees, but it represents a fine golfing test just as Harry Colt may have envisioned more than a century ago.

  7. Wilmslow

    Cheshire, United Kingdom

    The opening hole at Wilmslow Golf Club is a simple, but strategic par four that nicely sets the tone for the round as it’s one of many subtly doglegged holes to be faced.

  8. Caldy Golf Club

    Cheshire, United Kingdom

    Caldy Golf Club has a delightful mix of seaside and inland holes. It provides a good test for the low handicapper and is enjoyable for the average golfer.

  9. Heswall

    Cheshire, United Kingdom

    Formed on the Wirral in 1902, Heswall Golf Club overlooks the Dee Estuary and the Welsh hills. Jack Morris (nephew of Old Tom) laid out the course and a number of designers have altered the layout down the years.

  10. Reddish Vale

    Cheshire, United Kingdom

    An Alister MacKenzie course that was designed in 1912, Reddish Vale Golf Club is a very pleasant moorland track laid out on the banks of the River Tame...

  11. Dunham Forest Golf & Country Club

    Cheshire, United Kingdom

    Situated close to the old market town of Altrincham, the 18-hole course at Dunham Forest Golf & Country Club enjoys a woodland setting that was once part of the Earl of Stamford’s estate.

  12. The Mere Golf Resort & Spa

    Cheshire, United Kingdom

    The Mere Golf Resort & Spa is an underrated layout. Home to the annual Howard Keel Celebrity-Am and sometimes described as the "Wentworth of the north".

  13. Vale Royal Abbey

    Cheshire, United Kingdom

    Designed by Simon Gidman, the contemporary parkland course at Vale Royal Abbey Golf Club was constructed with USGA specification greens as standard and it first opened for play in 1998.

  14. Wychwood Park Golf Course

    Cheshire, United Kingdom

    The golf course at Wychwood Park opened for play in 2002 and it measures a huge 7,191 yards from the tips. Expect a serious challenge.

  15. Ringway

    Cheshire, United Kingdom

    Situated in Hale Barns, close to Manchester airport, Harry Colt extended the undulating parkland course at Ringway Golf Club from a twelve to an 18-hole layout in 1912. James Braid suggested further changes and his son, a club member, implemented these before the end of 1960.

  16. Carden Park (Cheshire)

    Cheshire, United Kingdom

    Many golfers prefer the Alan Higgins-designed Cheshire course to the Nicklaus layout at the impressive Carden Park Hotel & Golf Resort as it offers greater variety and technical challenge than its sibling.

  17. Warrington

    Cheshire

    A 9-hole layout was established at Warrington Golf Club in 1903 then another nine holes were added four years later, with fourteen holes laid out to the west of the A49 road and four holes on the east side.

  18. Bramall Park

    Cheshire, United Kingdom

    Bramhall Park Golf Club was founded in 1894 and the course was extended shortly after World War I when additional land was acquired. Alister MacKenzie was then called in to improve the layout in 1921.

  19. Astbury

    Cheshire, England

    Founded in 1922, Astbury Golf Club had a 9-hole layout in use until the 1960s, when the purchase of additional land eventually brought nine new holes into operation. Fred Hawtree then remodelled the layout in the mid-1970s to fashion the course that’s in play today.

  20. Carden Park (Nicklaus)

    Cheshire, United Kingdom

    The historic 17th century Carden Park Estate occupies some 750 acres of prime Cheshire countryside and has become a golfing Mecca in the northwest of England with the Nicklaus course the jewel in the crown.

  21. There's plenty of golf to be played at the leafy Portal Golf and Country Club in the North West of England, 45 holes to be precise, but the best is certainly the Championship layout.

  22. Bromborough Golf Club

    Cheshire, England

    Set on what was once the Earl of Shrewsbury’s estate, the original 9-hole layout at Bromborough Golf Club debuted in 1903. The course was extended in 1922 then four replacement holes were introduced due to the impact of local road works fifty years later.

  23. Bounded to the west by the Shropshire Union Canal, the course at Eaton Golf Club is an early 1990s design from Donald Steel, with holes routed through woodland and around a couple of streams that run through the property.

  24. Mottram Hall Golf Course

    Cheshire, United Kingdom

    Stretching out beyond 7,000 yards from the tips, the Dave Thomas-designed course at Mottram Hall is a serious test for golfers of all abilities.

  25. Bramhall

    Cheshire, United Kingdom

    Founded in 1905, Bramhall Golf Club started out with a 9-hole course which was set on local farmland, complete with a farmhouse that doubled up as a clubhouse. Before the onset of World War I, Alexander “Sandy” Herd, the professional at Huddersfield, was engaged to design an 18-hole layout for the club.