Royal West Norfolk Golf Club (Brancaster)
Phone: 01485 210223
Please mention the Glaven Valley when calling
Address:
Brancaster
PE31 8AX
Royal West Norfolk is a delightful classic links course with over a 100 years of history behind it. It is also rumoured that the Royal family have enjoyed a few rounds on the course through the years, so consider it nothing short of a privilege to play.
The course requires great accuracy at all times and is certainly not for the faint hearted. It boasts huge, deep sleeper faced bunkers and also requires a number of long, straight drives which must avoid trouble left and right. You also have to avoid a flooded creek on certain holes.
The homeward stretch is slightly shorter than the outward nine but is usually played into a strong westerly gale.
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Brancaster, the village to which families return year after year, very often because their parents and grandparents did so, is where Wildlife, not Nightlife is key, and where the Old England sort of seaside resort still exists. The miles of sandy beach stretching as far as the eye can see, bordered by sand dunes and mere yards from the car park is as good as it gets. Crowded? Only ever on sunny August weekends and Bank Holidays (see photo) Turn left and a 10 minute walk brings you to where the seals, just inland, bask on the marsh and where children can dangle bits of bacon to catch crabs in the creeks. The idle needn't walk anywhere beyond where they choose to dump their picnics and pitch camp. Turn right and walk away from where many people bunch and you will have swathes of deserted sand for your cricket or sandcastles. The very tidal sea leaves lagoons where children can safely splash, and at low tide the ship wreck is visible with its barnacle covered bilges and superstructure used for wartime target practise. But don't dally. The tide turns quickly and loiterers can find themselves wading back through the inrushing sea.
If you stay in the village you can expect to be woken by the chatter of skeins of geese flying overhead to their inland pastures, returning to the marshes again at dusk.
There are pubs, excellent restaurants in many of the local villages including a popular pizza place, and of course the Royal West Norfolk Golf Club, recently elevated to the ...
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