The first important tournament that Birkdale hosted was in 1909, The Ladies British Open Match-Play Championship. This was won by Miss Dorothy Iona Campbell and the stroke play medal was won by 16-year-old Cecil Leitch. Cecil went on to become one of Britain’s Greatest Golfers....
A meeting of four members held at 17 Sweeting Road, Liverpool, on 11 September 1894, resulted in one of the most significant entries in the original Minute Book. "Three o'clock at the Estate Office was fixed for going over the new links on Monday September...
On 30 July 1889, nine gentlemen met at the home of J C Barrett and it was here that they took the unanimous decision to form themselves into a Club, to be called the Birkdale Golf Club. The founding members at the first meeting were...