5
Par 3 · the signature hole
The water carry
A full carry over the lakes with no bail-out. It earns its place on every scorecard that leaves the club – and a photograph before you play.
A parkland course,
shaped by a major champion
Eighteen holes laid out by Jim Barnes in the grounds of the Basset Estate, and refined across a century. Where the county’s golf faces the sea, Tehidy turns inland.
1922The first lines
The 7th · Tehidy Park
The Course · Tehidy Park
Eighteen holes,
turned inland
Laid out in 1922 across the parkland of the old Basset deer park, and refined after the war by the architect C.K. Cotton. The defence here is angle and position, not raw length – three lakes in play, out of bounds on nine holes, and a long par-four 8th that bites into the prevailing wind. Play it sensibly and it is a quiet pleasure; play it greedily and it will take your card apart.
71 / 73Par · white / red tees
6,261Yards · white tees
3Lakes in play
Hole by hole
Play the course Holes worth the round
8
Par 4 · 443 yards · stroke index 1
The sternest test
The card’s longest par four and its hardest hole. Played into the prevailing wind, it seldom concedes a par easily.
9
Out of bounds in play
Route over power
Out of bounds is in play on nine of the eighteen. The course rewards route selection from the tee, not simply distance – choose your line and the parkland opens up.
18
Par 4 · home to the clubhouse
The finish
A closing hole that brings you back to the terrace and the nineteenth – by long tradition, the most demanding hole at Tehidy.
“
A fantastic parkland layout that will test you. Take on the green at the 17th.
– Darren C · Golfshake
Card of the course
The scorecard
Card of the courseWhite tees · 18 holes · par 71
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yards | 347 | 194 | 339 | 325 | 193 | 327 | 330 | 443 | 287 | 2,785 |
| Par | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 34 |
| Stroke index | 11 | 7 | 5 | 17 | 3 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 13 | – |
| Hole | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In |
| Yards | 348 | 518 | 136 | 358 | 393 | 527 | 344 | 479 | 373 | 3,476 |
| Par | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 37 |
| Stroke index | 16 | 4 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 2 | 12 | – |
| Total | 6,261 yards · Out 34 · In 37 | 71 | ||||||||
The 8th – 443 yards, stroke index one – is the card’s sternest test. The closing stretch, with the par-five 15th and the long 17th (index two), is where many a medal is made or unmade. The card shown is from the white tees; ladies play to par 73 from the red tees, with the full red-tee card available from the pro shop.
Par 71 / 73 A century in the making
How the course came to be
1922
Jim Barnes lays out the course
Businessmen of the Camborne and Redruth district lease seventy-five acres of the Basset Estate, and ask Open champion Jim Barnes – Cornish-born, in Lelant – to draw the course. By the time it opens he holds two US PGA titles and a US Open; The Open at Prestwick will follow in 1925.
Post-war
C.K. Cotton redesigns and extends
The noted architect C.K. Cotton reworks and lengthens the layout, giving the course much of the shape and balance it has today.
1996
The freehold bought
The club purchases the freehold of its own course – owned by its members, and into its second century.
1998
Three lakes added
Three lakes are brought into the layout, reshaping several holes and adding genuine water hazards to ground that had relied on trees and contour alone.
Two ways onto the course
Come and play Tehidy Park
Visit for a round, or make this your home club. Either way, the welcome is the same.