Located at the gateway to England’s glorious South West, Burnham & Berrow Golf Club is considered one of the finest links golf experiences in the British Isles, with a rich history dating back to 1890. Our Championship Course is ranked 27th in GB&I and the 9-hole Channel Course is an absolute gem.
Burnham & Berrow is a fantastic golf course from start to finish, with one of the best five-hole opening stretches anywhere in Britain.
There are few better five-hole starts anywhere in Britain than that at Burnham & Berrow. Even if from the 6th it became consistently mediocre, it would still be a very fine links.
It doesn’t though, and is thus one of England’s most appealing venues, combining steadfast championship challenge with plenty of entertainment.
The start is stupendously good, a narrow corridor of dunes pointing you toward the green of the 1st, which is only 383 yards off the very tips but will have ended many a medal challenge before it has begun.
It is followed by an elevated drive at the 2nd that permits a welcome opportunity to take in the panorama of linksland before you turn left on what is an exacting stroke 3 two shotter. This early tempo is, if anything, picked up at the next, another hole that dog legs and whose endearing quality is a blind, fantastic punch bowl green that it ends on.
By now we are alongside the shore and from the elevated 4th tee, a fader’s dream, we snake round the coastline to a sloping green tucked up on the right. The first short hole, a point-to-point par 3 with nothing attractive between the safety of tee and green, completes a magnificent stretch.
There is nothing wrong with the rest of the nine either; two more strong par 4s following the line of the shore as well as a par 5 where variously a canal, pot bunkers and a benched green are your opponents.
A short hole across the site ends the back nine and while the start to the second half is not quite so explosive, B&B returns to the highest calibre to close with strong holes from the 13th.
Some funky greens and fairways – as well as semi-blind approach to the wonderful 16th, which is a match for most of those on the celebrated front half – set up a muscular finish in front of the stout clubhouse.










