Welcome – Bridport and West Dorset was so welcoming to Dog Golf that they actually reached out to us to be added to the dog golf database. As it happens, just a fortnight later we were camping in Bridport and decided to take in a round with our camping companions’ canine, Jeannie, to have to test it out.
Walk – The walk is most flat with no trees to disrupt your view or your shots. Until you get to Hole 6 where the course plummets (with a fun par 3 that just sails down like some Tik Tok trick shot).
Wildlife – Naturally the seaside course is dominated by seabirds. We are especially fortunately that a rare Northern Wheatear hopped along the ground on hole 5.
Water – With a hat tip to Coleridge, there is all the water on one side of the course, but not much else atop these sea side cliffs (drinkable or otherwise). The course does circle back to the clubhouse on the 10th as an opportunity to get a quick lap of water.
Wind Down – The course had a superb clubhouse restaurant (one of the best bacon butties I’ve had on a course), but dogs were not allowed inside (there is a lovely deck area looking over the sea), so we decided to try the nearby West Bay Hotel which Jeannie’s persons, Sue and John, thought was the best pub food in West Bay and it was a delicious lunch with the very tasty local brew, Palmers.
