It’s tempting to say that Peover is deep in the heart of the Cheshire countryside. But it isn’t. It’s within a drive and a 4-iron of the M6’s Junction 19 and, at one point, the motorway runs right through it. Not that you’d notice. That’s the extraordinary thing about Peover. The motorways and A-roads serve it up to you on a plate and yet, when you’re actually there, they’ve all but disappeared. Maybe it’s the golf course itself that does it. From one to eighteen, there isn’t a hole that leaves you alone. Take your eye off the ball and it’s gone, which is why Peover has a countrywide reputation for being just a tad difficult. But it’s also fun. The setting is picture postcard, complete with winding river, natural wildlife habitats and a thousand and one trees. And that’s just the first. Seventeen holes later and it’s a welcome world back in the clubhouse. Some clubhouse. It seems to be entirely made of wood and comes complete with a small lake and the eighteenth green in front of it. A cross between a mountainside Swiss chalet and a log cabin. Unique. And, as such, entirely in keeping with the spirit of Peover itself.

Peover Golf Club.

Plumley Moor Road, Lower Peover, Near Knutsford, Cheshire, WA16 9SE.

01565 723 357