Yelverton by Dartmoor
Added on January 25th, 2010 by Lorne
Posted in New courses reviewed
Posted in New courses reviewed
Herbert Fowler, of Walton Heath fame, designed this fine moorland course on the edge of Dartmoor.
It is exciting that present-day golf architects, after the artificial bulldozered ‘target’ monstrosities of the 1980s and 1990s, are returning to the philosophy of Fowler’s era, whose most famous quote is “God builds golf links and the less man meddles the better for all concerned”.
A man of fifteen stone and 6’3″ in height, Fowler hit a long ball but put a premium on straightness, accuracy and fairness to all levels of golfer in his designs and this certainly shows at Yelverton.