Riverside Cottage

Riverside Cottage is ideally located close to three of the country’s top golf courses and would offer an ideal golfers break.

Saunton Golf Club East Course which has been ranked in the top 30 courses in the British Isles by Golf World every year since 1980. Henry Longhurst (golf commentator) said that it is probably the best course never to have hosted the Open.

The Saunton West Course is also a championship course of the same high standard and is also in the top 100 courses in the country.

Royal North Devon Golf Club

The oldest links course in Britain, designed by Tom Morris and the former home of J H Taylor, Royal North Devon at Westward Ho! is an antiquity, a unique, charming links with undulating fairways and a variety of interesting holes over the par 72 6,665-yard stretch of coastline bordering the sea shared by golfers, walkers, sheep and horses alike. All the greens are protected from the grazing animals by ropes. A beautiful setting by a bay surrounded by picturesque buildings, it offers a variety of unusual challenges, from high sleepered bunkers to the moguls of 'the Alps'. At one hole horses canter down the hill to their drinking trough. Greens are fast and true. Check out the memorabilia in the wooden clubhouse museum.

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Saunton Golf Club (East)

Saunton, located on the beautiful unspoilt North Devon coast on the edge of Bideford Bay, boasts two classic links courses. The East, laid out in 1897, is the original course and stages major British and English amateur championships. It funnels through a succession of sand dunes, using natural terrain. There are eight par fours more than 400 yards long and only two par fives, the second recently lengthened to 530 yards after the opening 470-yard hole played from up high with a 150-yard carry over dunes to the fairway. The closing stretch of a gruelling par four 16th, sometimes impossible 210-yard 17th often into a howling gale and the dogleg, uphill 18th have wrecked many a card.

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Saunton Golf Club (West)

Place Saunton’s West course anywhere else than adjacent to the breathtaking East and it would earn a reputation all its own. Originally laid out in the mid-1930s, it was restored by Frank Pennink in 1975. Shorter than the West at 6,403 yards par 71, it opens through the dunes followed by a short climb to undulating linksland. Several narrow streams-cum-ditches need careful attention, there are interesting doglegs and the greens are immaculate and quick. The back nine features three par fives, three fours and three threes, the 16th, called the Pulpit, played from the highest point to the green 177 yards below. A par five is the followed by the final par three for a challenging finish.

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