2-FORE!-1 six of the best

Six more top 2-FORE!-1 tracks where you’re guaranteed a round to remember…

* Portal (Championship course) – one of the north west’s finest stay and play venues, Portal is a golfing paradise. Top attraction though is the 20-year-old Donald Steel-designed Championship course which claimed the region’s Golf Course-of-the-Year award in 1995. There’s a terrific combination of holes including the stunning  par-5 3rd although the signature hole is the par-3 14th which is surrounded by both water and trees.

*Tehidy Park, Cornwall – although only two miles from the sea, this parkland venue has a mix of open holes, some with strategically-placed streams but many featuring tree-lined fairways.  It’s a gently undulating layout but relatively easy-walking but you have to be on your mettle throughout and that particularly applies at the par-3 17th, requiring a 170-yards carry over water.

*Royal Tarlair, Scotland – this clifftop, parkland course runs parallel to the cliffs for many holes climbing steadily then dropping back before turning seaward at the 13th, the course’s most memorable hole.

*Hellidon Lakes, Northants – A fun place to stay and play: take your pick from 27 holes of exciting parkland golf, tennis courts, and spa in the on-site hotel which also features a tenpin bowling alley and golf simulator.