Part of Lee Park Golf Club's history can be seen by clicking on this short Movie Trailer.

The full length one hour version of the DVD is currently on sale at £10 and available by contacting us.

Lee Park Golf Club was founded in the early 1950’s, as at that time it was extremely difficult for Jewish golfers to obtain admission to a private golf club. In view of this situation, the Merseyside Jewish Golfing Society made efforts to find land and build their own course.

The Lee Hall estate, comprising two potato farms of 300 acres and the old Lee Hall, was found by the late Sol Bennett for sale in 1950. The estimated price was £30,000 including £5,000 to layout the course. In the austere post-war days money could not be borrowed from the banks, so shares were issued and purchased, many by non-golfers within the Community. Because of the shortage of farmland in the country so soon after the war, planning permission was not initially granted for the 300 acres, but would, after protracted negotiations, only be approved if 90 acres were utilised for the course.

Our club then became the first golf course in Britain to be built following the end of the WW II.

Lee Park Golf Club was eventually founded in 1954 and the course, designed by Frank Pennink of C. K. Cotton & Co, was progressively extended from 6 to 9 and then 18 holes.

A lot of the initial work of clearing land, removing stonewalls was done by the Founder members.The clubhouse has been extended progressively since the early days and now includes modernised locker rooms and showers, a large informal Spike Bar overlooking the course and a dining area for more formal functions.

Another first in our history was in July 1957 when John Lennon and his group, The Quarry Men, made their first paid appearance in our clubhouse.

The owner of the Cavern club, Alan Sytner, was a member of Lee Park, and following their appearance booked them for skiffle sessions at the Cavern. Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr joined the group shortly afterwards to become the Beatles and the rest, as they say, is history!