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Trevose Golf & Country Club

Padstow, Cornwall · Designed by Harry Colt (1925) · Est. 1925

Trevose is the finest links on the north Cornwall coast and the golfing heart of one of England's great family-holiday stretches, set above Constantine Bay near Padstow. Laid out by Harry Colt in 1925, the Championship course runs over rolling links land between the dunes and the Atlantic, with wide sea views, firm seaside turf and the ever-present wind giving it genuine links character.

At around 6,600 yards, par 71, it is a fair but honest test — Colt's routing making clever use of the humps and hollows, with a famously tempting drivable short par-4 and a run of holes hard against the beach. Alongside the Championship links, the resort has a shorter second course and a nine-hole layout, making it a superb base for a mixed-ability group or a family.

With a relaxed country-club atmosphere, self-catering and hotel accommodation on site, and the surfing beaches of Constantine and Booby's Bay on the doorstep, Trevose is as much a holiday as a golf trip — and just across the Camel estuary from its great rival, St Enodoc.

Holes worth knowing

1The beach holes — the run hard against Constantine Bay, with the Atlantic and the surf right there, is what everyone remembers about Trevose.
2The drivable short par-4 — a classic Colt risk-and-reward temptation that can yield a birdie or a big number in the sea breeze.

Highlights

The best links on the north Cornwall coast
Harry Colt design (1925) above Constantine Bay
Family-friendly resort with three courses
Surfing beaches and Padstow on the doorstep

Good to know

→Trevose is a Harry Colt links wrapped in a relaxed country-club resort — self-catering and hotel rooms on site make it ideal for a family or a mixed group.
→Beyond the Championship course there is a shorter second course and a nine-holer, so non-single-figure golfers and kids are well catered for.
→It sits above Constantine and Booby's Bay — two of Cornwall's best surfing beaches — so a non-golf day of surf and coast path is easy.
→Padstow, with Rick Stein's restaurants and the Camel Trail cycle path, is ten minutes; St Enodoc lies just across the estuary for a classic two-links pairing.
→Newquay Airport is only 25 minutes, making north Cornwall more accessible than the long drive down the M5 suggests.