History of Widnes Golf Club

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 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.