Welcome to Yelverton Golf Club
Situated
just ten miles north of Plymouth,
on Roborough Down within the Dartmoor National
Park; the course has extensive views across
the moors and across the Tamar Valley to
Cornwall. Considered by many to be one of
the South West's best courses, it is a delightful
18 hole course with great character, that
is testing yet fair to all standards of
golfer.
The club was founded
in 1904 and the present course was designed
by Herbert Fowler. The course is built on
the site of the old Yeoland Consuls mine
workings, and is renowned for a variety
of interesting ravines caused by the past
mining activities; these natural features
have been used to enhance the degree of
difficulty of several of the holes. With
fairways lined by gorse and heather, and
with fast and true greens, the Par 71, SSS
71 course provides a challenge for all golfers.
Henry Longhurst
began his long love affair with golf here;
in his book 'My Life and Soft Times', he
recalls the time at Yelverton in 1920 when
he was first introduced to the game - "...I
was hooked for life. A set of three or four
clubs was procured for me from the Pro at
Yelverton, who also gave me a lesson, and
thus it was on this charming heath-and heather
course that I hit my first 'proper' shot
at golf".
The course has
hosted many top quality competitions over
the years, most notably the annual South
West of England Open Winter Foursomes; many
Professional golfers are among the competitors
who brave the winter weather in what is
always an exciting and keenly contested
event.
The course drains
well in the winter, when the leats that
once provided Plymouth with its water supply,
are again filled with water. Being situated
on natural moorland, the course is blessed
with a wide variety of fauna and flora,
with rare orchids and eyebrights found along
its fairways, and buzzards and Dartford
warblers frequently seen overhead.
Club-house
The
club-house is friendly and welcoming with
full bar and catering facilities available.
The clubhouse is of a traditional design,
built in 1926, and retains its charm; it
has an attractive bar, a large dining room
that will seat eighty, with splendid views
over the Tamar Valley. In addition there
is a snooker room and suitable changing
rooms.
Practice Facilities
The
club has good practice facilities, with
a putting and chipping green in front of
the club-house, an indoor practice net,
and a 'state of the art' indoor Teaching
Academy at the rear of the building. The
practice ground is extensive, and there
is a pitching green, with practice bunker,
to perfect the finer aspects of the game.
Professional's
Shop
There
is a well stocked shop adjacent to the club-house,
run by the Professional, Tim McSherry, who
can provide a club repair service, and expert
tuition, both on the course and practice
ground, and in his Academy with computer
assisted analysis. He can also custom fit
clubs to personal specifications, and for
society days a comprehensive service that
includes: prize tables, nearest the pin
and longest drive markers, and sequence
swing photographs of the players.
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the Professional's Website!
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