West Lancashire Golf Club

An 1873 links at the mouth of the Mersey.

West Lancashire, founded in 1873, is among the ten oldest golf clubs in England. Its links sit at Blundellsands, on the north side of the Mersey estuary just above Crosby, and the club hosted Final Qualifying for The Open from 2023 to 2026 and co-hosted the 2026 Amateur Championship with Royal Liverpool. It is only about 25 minutes from Liverpool city centre on the train, which makes it the easiest of the Merseyside championship links to reach without a car.

West Lancashire Golf Club green fees and tee times.

Visitors book online through the club’s BRS booking page, or by phone on +44 151 924 1076. The booking terms are strict, so read them before you commit. A provisional booking is held for 14 days, then released unless you pay a 50% non-refundable deposit. The balance is due 60 days before play; if you book within 60 days, you pay the full fee at once. Inside 60 days nothing is refundable, and the club will not refund for delayed flights or illness. You can move a date up to 60 days out, to another day within a year. No handicap rule is published on the visitor pages.

The round, in perspective.

The layout is credited to C. K. Cotton and covers about 200 acres in two loops of nine, with the 9th and 18th greens in front of the clubhouse. The architect Donald Steel has written of its humps and hollows and a sea of rough, and of ships slipping silently past on the Mersey on summer evenings. The 1st is a demanding dogleg par four that sets the tone. The club picks out the run from the 7th to the 9th as a strong stretch, and the 12th, a par three, leads to an elevated 13th tee with wide views. From the black tees it measures 7,016 yards, par 72; the white tees play to 6,706.

Know before you go.

Deposit

50%, non-refundable, to hold a booking beyond 14 days

Final payment

60 days before play

Buggies

Six, £45 a round, subject to availability

Day rate

£75 extra per person in summer 2026

Winter works

November–February, possibly including full green maintenance

Make the trip work.

Winter rates from November to March include tea or coffee and a bacon roll on arrival, and the fourball prices save £40 or more against four single fees. In summer you can add a second round for £75 a head. The club warns that winter maintenance from November to February may include full green work, so ask about the state of the greens before booking a cheap winter round. The club’s dress code is published as a PDF alongside the green fees.

Liverpool John Lennon Airport is about 17 miles south-east, roughly 35 to 40 minutes by car. Manchester Airport is about 45 miles away. Hall Road station, on Merseyrail’s Northern line between Liverpool Central and Southport, is about 50 yards from the club’s entrance on Hall Road West. Trains run about every 15 minutes, and the run from the city centre takes under half an hour.

Where it is.

Nearby: 1. Wallasey Golf Club (8 km) · 2. Formby Golf Club (8 km) · 3. Southport & Ainsdale Golf Club (12 km) · 4. Hillside Golf Club (14 km) · 5. Royal Birkdale Golf Club (14 km) · 6. Royal Liverpool Golf Club (15 km) · Compare all England’s Golf Coast tee times

Somewhere to settle in.

Most visitors stay in Liverpool, where the waterfront, the Albert Dock and hotels such as the Hard Days Night by the Cavern Quarter are a short train ride from Hall Road. Crosby and Blundellsands are mainly residential; the club lists the Royal Hotel on Marine Terrace, Waterloo, within three miles. If the trip is built around links golf rather than the city, Southport has more hotel choice and puts Formby, Hillside, Birkdale and Southport & Ainsdale within a few stops.

Make a trip of it.

Formby is about 15 minutes north, and the Southport courses another ten minutes beyond. Royal Liverpool at Hoylake and Wallasey are across the Mersey through the tunnels, about 40 minutes by road. Off the course, Crosby beach is about 300 yards from the club entrance, and Antony Gormley’s Another Place, 100 cast-iron figures facing out to sea, stands along three kilometres of it, and the Liverpool waterfront and its museums are 20 minutes away.

Find your season.

Summer rates run from May to September, with October and April as shoulder months and winter golf from November to March. Open Final Qualifying, held in the weeks before The Open, took the course for a day from 2023 to 2026, and the club co-hosted the 2026 Amateur Championship with Royal Liverpool. Check the club’s open competitions page for other closures.