Destinations · 6 min read
Why American golfers should pay attention to Cornwall
England's oldest links, the best seafood in Britain, and a coast road that would be a national park anywhere else.
Cornwall is not on the list. That is precisely the argument for going.
Royal North Devon, just over the border, has been played continuously since 1864 and still shares its turf with sheep and horses. St Enodoc has a church half-buried in the dunes and a bunker named after a mountain range. Perranporth is a Braid course on a cliff that nobody outside the county talks about.
Between rounds you're twenty minutes from Padstow, forty from Porthleven, and never more than a mile from a coast path worth walking. The drives are short. The green fees are a rounding error next to the famous names.
Play it west to east or east to west, leave room for the fishing villages, and don't try to add Scotland on the end.
