Wallasey Golf Club

The links that gave golf its points.

Wallasey is where Dr Frank Stableford ran the first points competition, on 16 May 1932, after the Wirral wind made the old bogey format unworkable. Members from Hoylake founded the club in 1891 and Old Tom Morris laid out the links, in big dunes on the north-east corner of the Wirral looking out over Liverpool Bay. Bobby Jones came through qualifying here and at Hoylake for the 1930 Open, which he went on to win. Today the club sells visitor tee times online, and it is ten minutes from the Mersey tunnels.

Wallasey Golf Club green fees and tee times.

Visitor tee times are sold through the club’s Intelligent Golf online tee sheet, and online bookings must be paid in full when made. Bookings through the office need a 50% non-refundable deposit; the club holds a provisional enquiry for 14 days, and the balance is due by the day of play. Cancelling forfeits the deposit, and the club does not refund for cancelled flights or illness. Up to 14 days before play you can move the date to another day within a year. The club’s midweek rate covers Monday, Tuesday and Thursday; its weekend rate covers Friday to Sunday. No Wednesday rate is listed. Society and group enquiries go to the office on +44 151 691 1024 or office@wallaseygolfclub.com.

The round, in perspective.

Four greens from Old Tom’s course survive, on the 2nd, 7th, 8th and 12th holes. In the 1930s a new lease cut the acreage, and Hawtree and J. H. Taylor reworked the layout with advice from James Braid; the full 18 returned in 1952. In 2022 the club brought in Clayton, DeVries & Pont to plan the course’s future. The holes carry names: the 1st, Estuary, is 362 yards from the whites, with a tee shot that discourages a driver and a partly hidden green; the 2nd is Stableford; the 9th, a 142-yard par three, is Bobby Jones; and the 17th, Gully, is a 452-yard hole played as a par four or five. The course is par 72, 6,552 yards from the whites and 6,708 from the blues.

Know before you go.

Online bookings

Paid in full at booking

Office bookings

50% non-refundable deposit within 14 days

Date changes

Up to 14 days before play, to a date within a year

Mobile phones

Silent on the premises; no calls on the course except emergencies

Make the trip work.

The main lounge holds a portrait of Bobby Jones by J. A. A. Berrie that Jones signed, which the club says is the only time he did so, and he became an honorary life member in 1931. Ask to see it. The short game area sits in the dunes beside the links, with its own green and bunkers sunk into the sand, and is the place to get used to the firm turf before you tee off. The clubhouse is open from 9am until 10pm midweek and until 9pm at weekends. The club’s terms point out that you may be playing among four-balls.

Liverpool John Lennon Airport is about 18 miles away, roughly 35 to 40 minutes by car through the Kingsway tunnel. Manchester Airport is about an hour by road. By rail, Merseyrail’s West Kirby line runs from Liverpool city centre to Wallasey Grove Road and Wallasey Village, the closest stations to the clubhouse on Bayswater Road; a taxi covers the last part if you are carrying clubs.

Where it is.

Nearby: 1. West Lancashire Golf Club (8 km) · 2. Royal Liverpool Golf Club (9 km) · 3. Formby Golf Club (15 km) · 4. Southport & Ainsdale Golf Club (20 km) · 5. Hillside Golf Club (21 km) · 6. Royal Birkdale Golf Club (22 km) · Compare all England’s Golf Coast tee times

Somewhere to settle in.

Wallasey works well with a Liverpool city base, since the tunnels put the clubhouse 15 to 20 minutes from the waterfront hotels. On the Wirral side, New Brighton’s seafront has hotels and guest houses a short drive east, and Hoylake and West Kirby, about 20 minutes west, suit golfers who also want Royal Liverpool. Hoylake’s Market Street has pubs and restaurants within walking distance of the Royal Liverpool clubhouse.

Make a trip of it.

Royal Liverpool at Hoylake is the obvious partner, about 20 minutes west along the north Wirral coast, and the two clubs co-hosted the 100th English Men’s Amateur Championship in 2025. West Lancashire and Formby are across the Mersey. Off the course, the New Brighton promenade runs past Fort Perch Rock and its lighthouse, and the Mersey Ferry from Seacombe gives a short river crossing with views of the Liverpool skyline.

Find your season.

Summer rates run until the end of September, with October as a shoulder month. The club lists winter rates only for November and February, so ask the office whether visitors are taken in December and January. The club warns that maintenance in the winter and shoulder seasons can affect parts of the course. It is an England Golf championship venue and has hosted Open qualifying four times.