Welcome to our comprehensive guide to the finest golf courses across South West England. This stunning region, encompassing Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, and Dorset, offers some of the UK's most spectacular golfing landscapes, from dramatic clifftop links to pristine parkland courses nestled in rolling countryside.
Cornwall, United Kingdom
St Enodoc Golf Club is certainly a quixotic and rather hilly links course, set amidst towering sand dunes clad with tufts of wild sea grasses.
Devon, England
Somerset, United Kingdom
Dorset, United Kingdom
Dorset, United Kingdom
Dorset, United Kingdom
Devon, England
Dorset, United Kingdom
Devon, United Kingdom
Cornwall, United Kingdom
Cornwall, United Kingdom
Devon, United Kingdom
Cornwall, United Kingdom
Dorset, United Kingdom
Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Devon, United Kingdom
If there is a need for another seaside Open Championship venue, then the East course at Saunton Golf Club might be a worthy candidate.
Burnham & Berrow Golf Club has played host to many important amateur championships over the years and the course is regularly used for Open Championship qualification.
We’ve classified Parkstone Golf Club as a seaside heathland course. It’s not a traditional links and neither is it very far inland.
Broadstone Golf Club is laid out on glorious rolling terrain. The elevated homeward nine provides panoramic views of the Purbeck Hills and Poole Harbour.
Ferndown Golf Club plays across a sandy outcrop of land where there is a proliferation of heather and pines... it’s an inherently pretty golf course.
The West is the second course at Saunton Golf Club and was originally laid out in the mid-1930s. It’s shorter than its older sister but, nonetheless, the West represents a challenge.
Remedy Oak Golf Club opened for play in November 2005 and former Englishman and Ryder Cup Captain John Jacobs designed the golf course, which is set in more than 250 acres of ancient woodland...
Royal North Devon Golf Club, or should we say Westward Ho! This nostalgic and monumental links course fits firmly into the “must-play” category.
Perranporth Golf Club is probably the most underrated links course in the South West of England. The stunning views are worthy of the excellent value green fee alone.
With dramatic views across the golden sandy shore of Boobys Bay to the rugged coastline, Trevose Golf & Country Club is sheer drama.
East Devon Golf Club is absolutely enchanting, the course is laid out on high ground, 400 feet above the sea, close to the clifftops, where one can drink in the most spectacular views in golf.
St Mellion is located in the Tamar Valley, on what was once rolling farmland. Bodmin Moor is not too far away but you need look no further – the beast is the Nicklaus course.
The vistas from the Isle of Purbeck are breathtaking, for the golf club is positioned on a high heathland plateau and the 360-degree panorama continually interrupts one’s concentration.
Cleeve Hill occupies the highest point in the Cotswolds at 330 metres elevation, where Old Tom Morris created an inland links in 1891. The common land layout features limestone drainage, quarry hazards, and panoramic views across Gloucestershire and Wales, making this a distinctive golf holiday destination.
Herbert Fowler used old mine workings in his design at Yelverton Golf Club. This is one of Devon’s best moorland golf courses with expansive views across Dartmoor and Cornwall.
