Hillside Golf Club
Hillside Golf Club: Conway of Halifax (1924), redesigned by Fred Hawtree (1962). Par 72, 7,109 yards. Christo Lamprecht won the 2023 Amateur Championship here with 3 & 2.
Hillside Golf Club: Conway of Halifax (1924), redesigned by Fred Hawtree (1962). Par 72, 7,109 yards. Christo Lamprecht won the 2023 Amateur Championship here with 3 & 2.
Hillside Golf Club: Conway of Halifax (1924), redesigned by Fred Hawtree (1962). Par 72, 7,109 yards. Christo Lamprecht won the 2023 Amateur Championship here with 3 & 2.
Updated October 24, 2026
9 editions on the record, by event, newest first.
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Richie Ramsay | 274 (−14) | DP World Tour |
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Richie Ramsay | 274 (−14) | by 1 stroke · European Tour |
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Marcus Kinhult | 272 (−16) | by 1 stroke · DP World Tour |
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Tony Jacklin | 284 (−4) | won in a playoff · European Tour / DP World Tour |
The R&A
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Christo Lamprecht | 3 & 2 | |
| 2011 | Bryden Macpherson | 3 & 2 | |
| 1979 | Jay Sigel | 3 & 2 |
The R&A
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Leonie Harm | 3 & 2 | |
| 1977 | Angela Uzielli | 6 & 5 |
Tony Jacklin tied Bernhard Langer at the 1982 PGA Championship at Hillside and won at the first playoff hole; it was his last professional title.
Source: Top 100 Golf Courses: Hillside
The new 18-hole course of 1923-24 was designed and built by Conway of Halifax, a fertiliser manufacturer, starting in January 1923, ten months before the lease was signed; many new tees and greens failed and had to be replaced.
Source: Hillside GC: History
Club professional John Burton redesigned the 7th green in the 1960s and made a hole-in-one the first time he played the new hole.
Source: Hillside GC: History
The par-5 11th, just over 500 yards, doglegs left from an elevated tee that looks over Hillside, Royal Birkdale and Southport & Ainsdale; a cavernous bunker guards the right.
Source: Top 100 Golf Courses: Hillside
Hillside is separated from Royal Birkdale only by a footpath, and from Southport & Ainsdale by the railway line.
Source: Top 100 Golf Courses: Hillside
Fred Hawtree's 1960s rebuild routed the back nine through "monumental" valleys among some of the highest dunes, with large volumes of sand removed.
Source: Hillside GC: History · Top 100 Golf Courses: Hillside
The original nine holes on Hill Side farm kept the "cops", earth banks that bounded the fields, within the routing.
Source: Hillside GC: History
Conway of Halifax
Sandhill holes re-routed (new dogleg hole opened April 1957; 18th lengthened Dec 1959; 16th, 17th and 11th rebuilt from 1960-61)
The PGA Tour and DP World Tour weeks at this course since 2017.
| Year | Event | Winner | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Cazoo Classic 21–24 July 2022 | Richie Ramsay | DP World Tour |
| 2019 | Betfred British Masters 9–12 May 2019 | Marcus Kinhult | DP World Tour |
Every value is shown as recorded in GNN's tour-course research (profiles, championship history, the tour's visits since 2017, stories, details and course changes, each with its sources). A value no source confirmed is left out; nothing is estimated. The light in the room is the sun's real position on the last day of a recorded visit.
The routing and ground are drawn from OpenStreetMap data, © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL). The clubhouse is drawn by GNN from reference photographs; the photographs stay private.
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