Golf Links Rd,
Yelverton, Devon PL20 6BN
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Adam Frayne (Head Professional).The Course:
18 holes. Moorland/heathland. Gently undulating terrain - a few slopes to climb.
Surroundings:
Open moorland (Roborough Down) and woodland.
Designer:
Herbert Fowler
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10 miles N of Plymouth
Leave the A38 in Plymouth and head north on the A386 direction Tavistock. After approx 7 miles turn left into Golf Links Road (well before the village of Yelverton). After o.7 miles clubhouse is on your left.
Yelverton
Yelverton Golf Club commands a fine reputation as home to one of the best moorland courses in England's southwest. Located just ten miles north of Plymouth on Roborough Down, Herbert Fowler's excellent layout sits within the Dartmoor National Park. From this blissfully natural course you'll enjoy many picturesque views onto the moors and across the Tamar Valley towards Cornwall.
The expansively roaming layout bears some of the hallmarks of Fowler's celebrated designs at Walton Heath in Surrey. Like Walton Heath's Old course, you first play a par-3 hole, before crossing a busy road to the rest of the out-and-back layout. Here, in a wonderfully open moorland/heathland habitat, heather and gorse bushes, rather than trees, lie in wait for any errant drives and approaches. Unlike Walton Heath, the green-keeping is supplemented by a few quietly grazing Dartmoor ponies and a small herd of sheep.
Fowler's design, with its generally good-width fairways and occasional blind tee-shots, incorporates some old mine workings and leats (open watercourses), which he skilfully wove into this engaging layout. There's plenty of pop-up mounds, bumps and hollows around the subtly sloping, electric wire-protected greens ... don't underestimate quite how much slope there actually is!
The course drains well in the winter, when the streams that run through some parts of the course fill with water ( ... they used to supply Plymouth with a healthy part of its water supply). Being situated on natural moorland, the course is blessed with a wide variety of fauna and flora, with rare orchids and eyebrights (see Did You Know section) found along its fairways, and buzzards and Dartford warblers frequently seen overhead.
Pick of the holes: as natural as they come, the downhill par-3 12th is ringed with bunkers and mounding, with the tors of Dartmoor away to the right.
Visitors welcome on weekdays and weekends.
Must book in advance. Handicap required.
Contact club for full details, discounts, packages, etc. [Last updated: 2024].
Players generally walk this course.
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Eyebrights, as mentioned in our course description, are small white-flowering plants, traditionally used as a remedy for eye problems. They are just one example of the fabulous array of flora and fauna that inhabit Dartmoor - one of the UK's most natural and visited areas of wild, rugged, open moorland.
Yelverton, Devon PL20 6DA
+44 (0)1822 852 245
Visit websiteWithin the Dartmoor National Park, the Moorland Links Hotel is set in nine acres of award-winning gardens, with wonderful views over the Tamar Valley. Tastefully decorated and furnished, the hotel has a reputation for excellent cuisine, combined with a relaxed ambience.
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Yelverton
St Mellion
Plymouth Road, Tavistock, Devon PL19 8YG
+44(0)1822 613 221
Visit websiteOn the site of a former Benedictine Abbey, the impressively castlellated building that comprises the Bedford Hotel was previously the residence of the Dukes of Bedford. Located in the historic market town of Tavistock, the Bedford is an excellent base from which to explore Dartmoor and the wealth of National Trust Houses and Gardens. The Hotel has 29 attractively furnished bedrooms, an award winning restaurant and large private car park.
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Yelverton (6 miles)
St Mellion; Bovey Castle
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