Bolton Golf Club

Founded in 1891 with an original nine holes on Green Lane, the club moved to Smithills before a group of members split away in 1912 to lay out a new 18-hole course at Lostock Park, taking the Bolton Golf Club name with them (those remaining at Smithills became Bolton Old Links). Designed by R. Hermon Crook and later modified by Harry Colt, the tree-lined, undulating parkland course looks out over the South Lancashire and Cheshire plains.