Golf Asia — January 2018

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From Whitby we take the Pickering

road inland and are rewarded with

wonderful views over the North York

Moors National Park. Its heart is the

great expanse of heather moorland,

the largest in the country. Brown, black

and sinister for much of the year, in

late August when the heather blooms,

it is transformed into a glorious green

and purple sea.

Further to the west are the Dales with

their wonderful drystone walls - endlessly

varying patterns of grey against

green that symbolise the very soul of

Yorkshire. In picturesque villages like

Hawes, Grassington and Kettlewell you

can spend the night in traditional inns

sampling hearty home-cooked fare such

as roast beef and Yorkshire pudding and

drinking traditional ales with whimsical

names such as Black Sheep and

Theakston's Old Peculiar.

To the south of the Dales,

Salts Mill.

The green at the opening

hole, Halifax Golf Club.

Yorkshire is well blessed

with real ales such as

Theakston’s Old Peculier.

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