When the Club was first founded, in 1921, it occupied rooms in what was then the Wheatsheaf Hotel, one of Liphook’s two coaching inns on the old Portsmouth Road. (Rivalry with the other hotel, then named The Blue Anchor, was intense – there were coach races between the two inns from Liphook to Petersfield and on one occasion the Anchor’s coachman forced his rival off the road to win the race.) The first hole and the eighteenth green in those days were those nearest the clubhouse – as can be seen from the photograph. They are now the 10th tee and the 9th green. The Professional and the Head Greenkeeper were not allowed in the Clubhouse back in the 1920s. They were located in the Black Huts, just over the road by what is now the 10th tee car park. Efforts were made after the Second World war to purchase what was by then called the Links Hotel from Friary Breweries. When that failed, in 1949 the Club acquired six acres of land at the edge of the Wheatsheaf Inclosure to the east of what was then the 10th hole. A temporary clubhouse was built that year with the help of a member who helped the Club secure some  ex-Army buildings, and the order of the two halves of the course was reversed and new holes created so that the 18th and 1st holes would end and start at the clubhouse. Tenders were sought in 1960 for the building of a clubhouse on this land, and the cheapest tender was from Colts who quoted £16,500 to build the clubhouse and a further £3,500 to equip it. The new clubhouse was opened in 1961, paid for with £8,500 raised from the membership and a loan from the brewers of £7,500, topped up by an increase in subscriptions.

The Wheatsheaf Hotel, the original home of Liphook Golf Club   The 18th green (now the 9th) with the Wheatsheaf Hotel behind         The new Clubhouse in 1961   The Lounge Bar         The Spikes Bar   The Ladies Powder Room