Hesketh Golf Club

Founded in 1885, Southport's oldest club (whose members went on to found Royal Birkdale) blends links and parkland at the northern end of the Merseyside dune system, laid out by J.O.F. Morris and later refined by George Lowe and James Braid. A designated Site of Special Scientific Interest, it borders the Ribble Estuary and regularly hosts Open Championship regional qualifying, with the par-3 16th once rated the best short hole in the area by Henry Cotton.