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Widnes Golf Club

 



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Golf was first played in Widnes during the early years of the twentieth century on the land bordered by Moorfield Road and Bowers Brook, known locally as the 'Bongs".Here the early enthusiasts cut holes and marked out teeing grounds.
 

The first Golf Club was formed and a nine-hole Course laid out in the grounds of Ditchfield Hall, Hough Green, in approximately 1902. It appears that the club ceased to function during the First World War, and attempts to revive it after the war soon failed.


"The Clubhouse 1926 "


 

The Clubhouse still exists and is put to good use by the Members of the Hough Green Mens Club. The ninth green also lives on, forming the garden of a house once owned by one of our former Members, Dr J Chestnutt. Another link with the original Golf Club is that with the proposal to form a Widnes Golf Club several Hough Green members gave their enthusiastic support to the idea, notably Dr.(later Sir) G C Clayton, at one time Chairman of the United Alkali Company and MP for Widnes, who became the first President.

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Widnes Golf Club, Highfield Road, Widnes, Cheshire, WA8 7DT, Tel: 0151 424 2995