But what makes Gillyflower golf course in Lostwithiel different is that every metre of non-playing surface will be used to grow fruit and vegetables or encourage flora and fauna.
The brainchild of creators behind the Cornish eco-attractions the Eden Project and the Lost Gardens of Heligan, Gillyflower is billed as a unique "edible" and green golf course.
Each of the nine holes on the course, which is about to welcome its first players, is being planted with fruit and nut trees and vegetables. Hedges and rough areas are maintained with wildlife in mind.
"Golf has a reputation for not being very green," said Gillyflower's director of golf, Joe Micklethwaite.
"The idea here is to create a great course but making sure everything we do is going to be as good for the environment as possible." Micklethwaite, 29, learned to play in Cornwall before moving to California and turning professional.
This winter he was back in the county overseeing the development of Gillyflower - and planting hundreds of Cornelian cherry trees on a slope to the left of the third hole. "We all join in," he said.
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