Scarborough North Cliff

Few English seaside towns have shaped the country's leisure culture quite like Scarborough, and the clifftop plateau above its North Bay has long been one of the more dramatic perches in Yorkshire golf. North Cliff sits up on the headland where the land drops sharply toward the sea, giving the course an exposed, windswept character that is entirely typical of the Yorkshire coast — open skies, firm turf when the weather allows, and a breeze that rarely takes a day off.

The club dates to the late Victorian era, when golf along the northeast coast was spreading rapidly through the new resort and spa towns, and North Cliff carries that tradition of golf as a genuine community institution rather than an exclusive retreat. It is the kind of members' club where the course has been shaped as much by generations of local players as by any single design hand.

For visitors, the appeal is straightforward: a full-length parkland-to-links hybrid layout, honest North of England conditions, and views across Scarborough's bay that no scorecard statistic can come close to capturing.