The golf course was opened in 1970 on the former private parkland of Crookhill Hall. The hall is shown on Jefferys' map of Yorkshire as Crookhill hall in 1775. In the 1930s the hall was used as a sanatorium. Prior to this the area was probably enclosed in a piecemeal fashion. Legibility of the former character is fragmentary as the overall shape of the park is fossilised and one of the landscaped fishponds is preserved.