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Stockport Golf Club. (1905 - 1910) 

Stockport Golf Club was founded in 1905 with a course at Woods Moor.

Below are reslts from the autumn meeting played in October 1909.

 

Stockport Golf Club. Results from the autumn meeting played in October 1909.

From the Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser Monday 4th October 1909. Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

 

Stockport Golf Club. Woods Moor course.

The location of the first Stockport course at Woods Moor is marked to the centre of the above OS map © Crown Copyright {1910}

 

It was reported in the Sheffield Daily Telegraph on Monday 9th May 1910 that “J H Taylor (Mid Surrey), James Braid (Walton Heath), Harry Vardon (South Herts) and Alec Herd (Huddersfield) were to take part in a match at the opening of the new Stockport course at Torkington today”  Result below.

 

Stockport Golf Club. Report on the opening of the current course in May 1910.

Gloucestershire Echo Tuesday 10th May 1910. Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

 

The Google Map below pinpoints the location of the course at Woods Moor.