Leasowe Golf Club

Having an Open Champion and a Submariner holder of the VC on your membership is an honour afforded to few.  Appropriately Leasowe’s best holes are played under the seawall.  It was cold, grey and the overall impression with a churned up Irish Sea was of one appearing at the top of the conning tower ladder and being met with a bow wave of wind and salt.

The first hole looks innocent enough with a green narrowly perceived through two mounds below the castellated walls.  This looks, at less than 300 yards, underwhelming but into the wind it served as a good hole to concentrate the mind.  More so when my son broke the head off my pitching wedge with his first iron of the day, on day one of three.  The second tee is through the castle walls and we enjoyed this loop 1 through to 6 the best.

The argument as to whether this is a true links continues.  Like Felixstowe the holes along the shore are genuine links but the remainder are open, flat and richly soiled.  Few linger in the memory.  During our tour of The Wirral I detected a certain snobbishness about the place which was unfortunate given the generally high standard of preparations.  The bunkers were well constructed and the greens firm and true after their own furlough.  The Greens were not complex but with a good breeze that turned a 380 yard hole into two three woods a little generosity here was not out of place.

It is not Hoylake and nor is it as dramatic as Wallasey but it must not be forgotten, nor the heroes who chose to play here.

Seagull’s view 18

Greens & bunkers 10 

Links appeal 6

Total 34