Lancs and Cheshire Best Golf Courses
Best golf courses in Lancashire and Cheshire
The Lancashire coast: Here on the dune-filled seashore of the “Red Rose” county, sometimes referred to as “England’s Golf Coast", you’ll find a links golf paradise. One of the world’s greatest stretches of “sand hills golf” awaits as you journey south from Royal Lytham & St Annes. You’ll need to skirt round the Ribble Estuary and then head down to Liverpool, stopping in at Royal Birkdale along the way.
If you overshoot the “Home of The Beatles” and end up crossing the Mersey to the Wirral peninsula, then no problem. You can add Royal Liverpool to your itinerary. If three Open Championship venues don’t satisfy your golfing appetite, then try any of the other excellent links golf courses that sit either side of the “Royal” triumvirate. Courses like Caldy, Fairhaven, Formby, Hesketh, Heswall, Hillside, Southport & Ainsdale, Wallasey and West Lancs will not disappoint.
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To make the most out of
your golf trip, look up the location of the courses on the Lancs and Cheshire golf map. It will help you with your planning to play the best courses during your holidays. On the maps we have indicated golf hotels and Stay & Play resorts with the following symbol  Where2Golf has applied a rating to each golf course visited. The rating scale, 5 (highest) to 1 (lowest), attempts to provide an indication of the golfing experience you can expect at each rated course. |
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Bolton
|  | Visitors welcome | Manchester | Crook & Colt |
Bolton Old Links
|  | Visitors welcome | Manchester | MacKenzie, Dr Alister |
Caldy
|  | Wkends restrictd | Liverpool | Braid, James |
Carden Park (Cheshire)
|  | Visitors welcome | Chester | Higgins, Alan |
Carden Park (Nicklaus)
|  | Visitors welcome | Chester | Nicklaus, Jack & Steve |
Clitheroe
|  | Visitors welcome | Manchester | Braid, James |
Delamere Forest
|  | Visitors welcome | Chester | Fowler, Herbert |
Fairhaven
|  | Wkends restrictd | Blackpool | Braid & Steer |
Formby
|  | Wkends restrictd | Liverpool | Park Jr, Willie |
Formby Hall
|  | Visitors welcome | Liverpool | Higgins, Alex |
Herons' Reach
|  | Visitors welcome | Blackpool | Alliss & Clark |
Hesketh
|  | Visitors welcome | Liverpool | Morris, J.F. |
Heswall
|  | Visitors welcome | Liverpool | Unknown |
Hillside
|  | Visitors welcome | Liverpool | Hawtree, Fred |
Lytham Green Drive
|  | Wkends restrictd | Blackpool | Steer, Jim |
Manchester
|  | Not Saturdays | Manchester | Colt, Harry |
Mottram Hall
|  | Visitors welcome | Manchester | Thomas, Dave |
Pleasington
|  | Visitors welcome | Manchester | Lowe & Herd |
Portal (Ch'ship)
|  | Wkends restrictd | Chester | Steel, Donald |
Portal (Premier)
|  | Wkends restrictd | Chester | Rouse, T. |
Prestbury
|  | Weekdays only | Manchester | Colt, Harry |
Reddish Vale
|  | Visitors welcome | Manchester | MacKenzie, Dr Alister |
Royal Birkdale
|  | Wkends restrictd | Liverpool | Hawtree & Taylor |
Royal Liverpool
|  | Wkends restrictd | Liverpool | Chambers & Morris |
Royal Lytham & St Annes
|  | Wkends restrictd | Blackpool | Lowe, George |
Sandiway
|  | Visitors welcome | Chester | Ray, Ted |
Southport & Ainsdale
|  | Visitors welcome | Liverpool | Braid, James |
St Annes Old Links
|  | Wkends restrictd | Blackpool | Lowe & Herd |
Stockport
|  | Visitors welcome | Manchester | Herd, Sandy |
Tytherington, The
|  | Visitors welcome | Manchester | Dawson & Thomas |
Wallasey
|  | Wkends restrictd | Liverpool | Morris, Old Tom |
West Derby
|  | Visitors welcome | Liverpool | Unknown |
West Lancashire
|  | Visitors welcome | Liverpool | Cotton, Ken |
Wilmslow
|  | Visitors welcome | Manchester | Herd, Braid et al |
Worsley Park
|  | Visitors welcome | Manchester | McMurray & King |
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Koksijde Golf ter Hille Golf Club: on what was previously open farmland, an enjoyable and challenging links-style layout has been crafted. Perhaps the inspiration for Koksijde's new course came from a renowned Harry Colt layout that existed in the 1920s just a couple of kilometres to the west. Read more... |
The Duke Golf Club: represents the latest in a trio of private courses to arrive on the Dutch golfing scene. All prefixed by the definite article, The Dutch (2010, designer Colin Montgomerie) and The International (2012, Ian Woosnam) have now been joined by The Duke, which firmly targets a business clientele and the corporate golf market. Read more... |
Drentse Golfclub De Gelpenberg: as the oldest golf course in the Dutch province of Drenthe, De Gelpenberg offers a partly-wooded and partly-open heathland layout, guaranteed to test all facets of your game. It is arguably the best of the country's more northerly layouts, together with Lauswolt (50 km away to the north-west). Read more... |
Golfbaan Stippelberg: located 25 kilometres north-east of Eindhoven, this relatively new addition to championship golf in the Netherlands has fast become one of the country's "must play" courses. |
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