Golf courses on Dartmoor

Golf

If you’re looking to play some of Dartmoors unique courses, you’d be well placed to stay at Duchy House. A short drive (get it?) and you’ll discover stunning moorland courses with sheep and ponies roaming around them, as well as luxury championship courses, all set within a beautiful environment.

Yelverton Golf Club is a delightful 18 hole moorland course with outstanding views across Dartmoor and over Cornwall. Incorporating some of the old mine workings and leats as natural hazards – not to mention the gorse, ponies and sheep! – the land which the course roams was once owned by Sir Francis Drake and is a unique course to challenge golfers of all standards.

Tavistock Golf Club is situated on the western slopes of Dartmoor National Park in a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The 18 hole course with its wide fairways and sweeping vistas looks deceptively simple but it offers a challenging test for the unwary golfer. Nature has provided its own hazards at Tavistock with thick gorse and bracken, sheep and wild horses, plus the odd clump of scrubby trees. There are also cunningly hidden bunkers that can trap the most proficient golfer. The thin soil not only provides tight lies, it also makes the greens lightning fast that drain very quickly allowing year-long play. 

Bovey Castle, set in an unrivalled position within a 275 acre estate on Dartmoor National Park, Bovey Castle hotel and golf club is a slice of five star luxury.  With tree-lined fairways, superb small greens and the River Bovey constantly coming into play, the course at Bovey Castle offers a true challenge to golfers of all levels as it meanders through the valley. Designed in 1926 by J F Abercromby, one of the finest British golf course designers of the last century, the 18 hole championship course is both challenging and beautiful.

Boringdon Park sits within 400 acres of glorious parkland with unparalleled panoramic views of the coast and Dartmoor, offering golfers a choice of two fantastic courses; the 18-hole Saltram Course or the 9-hole Estuary Course. The two super courses have been designed to enhance the natural contours of the land and constructed to the highest standard, with the greens built to UGSA specification, offering golfers a rewarding and enjoyable experience. Both courses have Well-groomed fairways and greens that keep things difficult yet friendly, as well as memorable holes where Water comes into play with a lake wrapping around the green on our signature hole and fairway on the 18th to finish.