Golf clubs

Harwood Golf Club was founded in 1926 by four Bolton shopkeepers to provide golf competitions on Sundays as opposed to Saturdays when other clubs in the area held their competition day. This is still the case and the Ladies, who started a Golfing Section in 1933, have Wednesday as theirs as this by tradition is half day closing in Bolton. The Golf Club now has 240 full playing men members and, 40 lady members and a thriving junior section. It has teams playing in both the Bolton and Bury Leagues: in 2009 it won the Bury and District Golf Association League and in 2014 were Runners Up in both the Bolton and Bury leagues. The Ladies Teams compete in both the silver and bronze divisions of the Lancashire Handicap Shield And have been hugely successful over the past few years. Harwood Golf Club is an interesting and varied 18-hole course set on the north-eastern outskirts of Bolton, Lancashire