St Enodoc

[True Blue]

Situated in Rock, affectionately known as "Chelsea Sur Mer" by the locals due to the number of rich Londoners who have holiday homes here.

Grass range (balls supplied), practice chipping area with bunker and practice green.

Large friendly clubhouse with great food and stunning views across the course. One point to mention, the car park has a sign on it saying "members only" but is available for visitors as they are regarded as day members!

A Links course is 6404 yards off the whites and 6067 off the yellows.

5 par 3s, 1 par 5. Must be a Cornish thing but again the par 3s are quite long! Starts off with a very tough par 5. The fairways are very narrow and built between towering sand dunes, anything too wayward will end up in the marron grass and you will be lucky to find it. Star hole has to be the par 4 6th locally know as The Himalayas. Described as the most spectacular natural hazard on a British golf course, a largish bunker lies some 220 yards from the tee. When I say largish, it is actually 80 feet long, about 60 feet wide, and in the side of a dune blocking the entrance to the green. Longhitters may be able to clear it with a driver if at 220 yards their ball is still 130 feet up in the air! The green lies a further 160 yards from the bunker. From the course there are spectacular views across the estauary and out to see and Padstow (just a mention for those visiting Padstow, there is a great crazy golf course here at the end of the harbour up a hill) is just across the wash.  There is a sunken church next to the 10th green and which lies alongside the 14th where Sir John Betjemen is buried.
This is a thinking persons course and if you don't have your golfing brain with you when you arrive you are in for a world of pain.

This is my favourite course, to date, in the UK and I urge anyone going to Cornwall to play it.
Please note it is the only course I have ever been to where handicap certificates need to be produced.
You can also do some celeb spotting, Hugh Grant was in the group behind us!

Rating 10/10