Golfers who have played there will agree the Royal North Devon Golf Club’s

course at Westward Ho! where the Devon Golf Union’s meeting takes place next week and in connection with which “The Western Morning News” Cup is being competed for – is different from others. The non-golfer is struck by the fact that whereas at newer seaside resorts the golf course is but often an artificially made attraction, provided because visitors require a course, at Westward Ho! it is the golf course which has made the place. Westward Ho! is the oldest seaside course in England, and it has been succinctly described as ‘difficult but eminently fair’. It is famous for the variety of its holes and is a triumph of the skilful combination of nature and art.

Hole 1 (430 yards) – Over the burn out into the flat country in a direct line towards the Pebble Ridge in the distance, a dry ditch running along the right, and with a narrow opening to the green (Bogey 5).

Hole 18 (410 yards) – This is a hole which has witnessed some exciting finishes. The green is a perfect one, but the ditch over which one drove the first shot of the round must be crossed again, and lies right in front of the green, terrifyingly close. The long handled rakes close by are a reminder that balls have a habit of dropping into the water here. A hold that is a test for nerves (Bogey 5).

Gazette article dated May 1923