Mullion Golf Club Course Review
Mullion Golf Club is home to England's most southerly golf course, laid out over the clifftops not far from Lizard Point in Cornwall
Mullion Golf Club Course Review
GF Day: £48; Twilight: £30
Par 69, 5,832 yards
Slope 123
GM Verdict – A dramatic clifftop and beachside setting awaits you at England’s most southerly course not far from Lizard Point in Cornwall.
Favourite Hole – The par-4 10th, which drops steeply down via a generous fairway before testing you fully on the approach courtesy of a deep hollow short-right of the green.
Mullion Golf Club, just five miles north of Lizard Point in Cornwall, is home to England’s most southerly golf course, blessed with an idyllic and remote location. If you’re looking for a short hidden gem golfing break, then a trip to play here and at West Cornwall Golf Club, half an hour north-west near St Ives, should be on your shortlist. Throw in the best golf courses in Cornwall a little further north-east at Trevose and St Enodoc, and you have all you need for a fun and challenging longer break.
From the clubhouse, you wend your way in ever-changing directions along, up and down slopes both gentle and steep towards the cliff edge, and at times get pretty much down to beach level at Gunwalloe Church Cove midway through the front nine, where part of St Winaloe’s Church dates back to the 13th century.
As at West Cornwall, you start on a par 3 (of similar length), before crossing back over that hole on the 2nd and then heading down to the cliffs for the first time on the 3rd. A ridge then mostly obscures the green on the 5th before the tempting 6th hole plunges down dramatically with OOB awaiting anything pushed right.
The 7th is then a fine but testing par 4 along the bottom with marshland OOB right, followed by a short, well-bunkered par 3, which is mercifully blessed with a concave green that may come to the assistance of minor miscues. After climbing steeply on the par-5 9th you then descend to the edge of the beach once more on the excellent 10th where a deep hollow awaits anything short and right. Glance away to your right from here, for this used to be the green on the second of consecutive par 3s along the beach playing straight over that deep gully.
After climbing again quite steeply on 12, the remainder of the back nine plays mostly over the higher ground, with another mouth-watering prospect in the short par-4 14th, which doglegs gently left against the slope back down to the cliff edge. You then walk back even closer to tee off on the 15th. Mullion is just a magical place to play golf, where the views on a fine day are hard to beat.
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Jeremy Ellwood has worked in the golf industry since 1993 and for Golf Monthly since 2002 when he started out as equipment editor. He is now a freelance journalist writing mainly for Golf Monthly. He is an expert on the Rules of Golf having qualified through an R&A course to become a golf referee. He is a senior panelist for Golf Monthly's Top 100 UK & Ireland Course Rankings and has played all of the Top 100 plus 91 of the Next 100, making him well-qualified when it comes to assessing and comparing our premier golf courses. He has now played 1,000 golf courses worldwide in 35 countries, from the humblest of nine-holers in the Scottish Highlands to the very grandest of international golf resorts. He reached the 1,000 mark on his 60th birthday in October 2023 on Vale do Lobo's Ocean course. Put him on a links course anywhere and he will be blissfully content.
Jezz can be contacted via Twitter - @JezzEllwoodGolf
Jeremy is currently playing...
Driver: Ping G425 LST 10.5˚ (draw setting), Mitsubishi Tensei AV Orange 55 S shaft
3 wood: Srixon ZX, EvenFlow Riptide 6.0 S 50g shaft
Hybrid: Ping G425 17˚, Mitsubishi Tensei CK Pro Orange 80 S shaft
Irons 3- to 8-iron: Ping i525, True Temper Dynamic Gold 105 R300 shafts
Irons 9-iron and PW: Honma TWorld TW747Vx, Nippon NS Pro regular shaft
Wedges: Ping Glide 4.0 50˚ and 54˚, 12˚ bounce, True Temper Dynamic Gold 105 R300 shafts
Putter: Kramski HPP 325
Ball: Any premium ball I can find in a charity shop or similar (or out on the course!)
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