SPORT
Cream of
South Devon’s
Courses Create
Glo r ious
Gol f T ou r
The cream of South Devon’s golf
courses have combined to create
one of England’s most glorious and
scenically stunning golf trails thanks
to the photogenic south Devon
coastline that is characterised by
charming coves and estuaries
and elevated cliff tops that offer
panoramic seascapes.
This mouth-watering collection of
Thurlestone, Teignmouth, East Devon
and Bovey Castle have all been
designed by some of golf’s most
revered course architects around
the time of the ‘Golden Age’ of golf
course design and will be known as
the South Devon Golf Tour (www.
southdevongolftour.co.uk).
Located in an Area of Outstanding
Beauty, Thurlestone is a magical
mix of links turf and cliff-top terrain
and much of its location atop a
promontory give it its breath-taking
panoramas over the legendary
Thurlestone Rock to the East and the
picturesque Avon Estuary and Burgh
Island in the West. Often compared
to Pebble Peach, this Harry Colt
design is by no means as severe
thanks to its wide open fairways
unless of course the coastal winds
start to blow.
Teignmouth, created by the famed
Alister MacKenzie, also owes a great
deal to its magnificent situation.
Laid out on the high moor of Little
Haldon over 800 feet above sea
level, the outward nine looks over
the town of Teignmouth and the
estuary of the River Teign whilst
the contrasting back nine looks
east over the Exe estuary towards
Portland Bill, a well-known headland
on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset. The
course today remains remarkably
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similar to MacKenzie’s original 1924
desig