Women's
Harwood Golf Club has an active women’s section made up of experienced golfers as well as those new to the game. We are a friendly bunch of individuals who enjoy the wider golf offer.
Our Mission: To provide an exceptional experience in golf by supporting, inspiring and delivering for our community of women golfers.
Our Vision: To establish Harwood Golf Club Women’s Section as the first-choice club for women seeking a new or first golf club through our commitment to provide an exceptional experience.
Our Values
H - Honesty with Happiness and Humour – acting with integrity, trust, reliability and fairness.
G - Golf for All – welcoming new to golf women and more experienced golfers alike, enabling everyone to be involved.
C - Community – friendly, welcoming and charitable to everyone.
W - Working Together for Excellence – making golf better for everyone, continuously improving, exceeding expectations and setting high standards.
S - Sustainability and Environment – always responsible and mindful of the environment.
We play both social and competitive golf at Harwood Golf Club. Competitions are mainly played on Wednesdays with provision for working women on Saturdays. We belong to a range of external organisations including the Bolton, Lancashire, East Lancashire and Manchester and District associations. This provides further opportunities to play at other courses in the area.
As a growing section, we organise social golf through regular roll ups. Our speciality is meeting for lunch on Wednesdays throughout the year (after golf or instead of, on occasions)!
There is a supportive network within the Club and our pathway from taster day to group coaching and integration into the Club is hugely successful (the envy of many other clubs). Equally important is our healthy social calendar, a few of which are reported below.
Saturday 5th September was an exceptional day at Harwood for many reasons. It was our annual Kings & Queens golf day and a special day in our Centenary Calendar as we held a Treasure Hunt for the children and grand-children of members and also buried a Time Capsule near our newly installed Half Way House.… Read more »
We have much to celebrate in terms of golfing achievements as the Summer comes to an end. Several of our women members qualified in club competitions to go forward and compete in regional and county championships. Well done to all and thank you for flying the flag for Harwood Golf Club in our Centenary Year.… Read more »
Congratulations to Harwood’s Lesley Hardman for winning the Challenge Bowl which was held over two days last week at Breightmet Golf Club. The Challenge Bowl is a prestigious competition held within the clubs in the Bolton Town Competitions group. Lesley came in with an impressive nett 70 on Monday followed by an awesome nett 66… Read more »
What a Centenary Year we are having! Our very own Elaine Smith and Gillian Rogers played in the regional finals of England Golf’s Australian Spoons competition on 16th July at Ryton Golf Club (Durham) and won!! They are now off to Woodall Spa on 10th August to compete in the national finals. This is a… Read more »
Our Women’s Captain hosted our annual Invitation Day on 17th July and what a glorious day we all had. It was a fantastic opportunity to showcase all that Harwood has to offer to our guests; a superb golf course in great condition, brilliant hospitality thanks to Lyn and the catering team and a stunningly decorated… Read more »
The Club Championships took place during week commencing 6th July. The Women’s Champion for 2026 is Jenny Murphy who won her finals match against Amelia Taylor on the evening of Friday 10th. Well played ladies. Tough going in heatwave conditions. Also pictured below are Judith Simms and Anne Oakes, the losing semi-finalists, with Captain of… Read more »
After a glorious week of golf at Bolton Old Links, Harwood’s Louisa Stirling became Bolton Ladies’ Champion on 25th June, after a very tight final against Annie Li-Wong from Old Links, which went all the way to the 18th. Congratulations to Louisa who has played some spectacular golf this week through the qualifiers, the quarters… Read more »
Harwood women hosted their first open team event of 2026 last Friday. After a very inclement week, the sun thankfully shone and it stayed dry! Thank you to everyone who supported this, our first Women’s Open in our Centenary Year, and to all those who helped make it such a success. Our charity raffle raised… Read more »
A new initiative for Harwood Golf Club in 2025 saw the launch of “Driving Girls’ Golf”, a programme aimed at giving both secondary school and primary school girls a chance to try out golf. Under the enthusiastic and passionate leadership of Carol Brooking, this proved a fantastic opportunity to spot real talent, and two of… Read more »
Good Friday saw the Women’s annual Easter Egg competition at Harwood Golf Club and it turned out to be a very successful and fun day. Easter bonnets were encouraged and the prize table was laden with Easter Eggs. This is one of our favourite competitions because everyone gets a prize!! The forecast was pretty… Read more »