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The Devils Dyke branch (near Brighton) had a Golf Club Halt. I recall reading many moons ago that a bell rang in the clubhouse to advise members of approaching trains.
[Prior to WW1 it seems to have been quite common to take golf clubs on a train. In those days the guards van had plenty of space and metal trunks and heavy leather luggage would often be sent in advance.
Southport must be one of the best places to get a variety of links courses, but the main station isn't within a mile of an 18 hole course.
Within Southport Hillside station fulfills the criteria of being within a mile of 3 club houses, Hillfoot GC, Southport and Ainsdale GC and Royal Birkdale GC.
Gleneagles has its golf courses because the railway built them! The hotel and golf courses were promoted by a private company but the Caledonian Railway assumed responsibility to complete and then own them. Of course the government sold it along with the other BTH hotels in 1983.
Other railway owned hotels with their railway owned golf courses were Cruden Bay, Turnberry, Moretonhampstead, Felixstowe, Tregenna Castle St.Ives.
Besides the obvious Denham Golf Club which is still open, there were halts opened across the whole country specifically for golfers in the early years of the twentieth century.
The link between other courses and railways such as Llandudno and Sheringham are purely coincidental.
The Wirral had one golf club which had three stations serving it - Chester Golf Club, Birkenhead Junction Golf Club and Chester Junction Golf Club.
Another Wirral station closely linked with golf today is Hoylake which serves the Royal Liverpool course
Also at Hoylake, the Hoylake municipal golf course is over the road from the station.
Wallasey Grove Road, you have short walk to Wallasey & Warren golf links
Hall Road is next to West Lancashire golf course
Eccleston Park is a strange one, the clubhouse is less than half a mile from Eccleston Park station, couple of holes are over the road from the station, because of the roundabout way to get the clubhouse, it looks a good couple of miles hike from Eccleston Park station.