Author: Global Golfer

England’s finest links south of Lancashire — Burnham & Berrow’s Bristol Channel setting, massive dunes and Herbert Fowler’s strategic masterpiece remain one of English golf’s great undersold secrets.

MacKenzie’s Tasman Sea clifftop masterpiece 20 minutes south of Sydney — New South Wales Golf Club is Australia’s finest clifftop course and one of MacKenzie’s own favourites.

Hogan’s Alley, Tiger’s professional debut and the Genesis Invitational — Riviera Country Club is American golf’s most glamorous private club and LA’s greatest sporting landmark.

Harry Colt’s 1906 Fischbeker Heide masterpiece — Germany’s finest course is a Surrey-quality heathland that remains Europe’s most underrated golf destination.

Japan’s greatest course — Charles Alison’s Rokko Forest masterpiece near Kobe is one of the 20 finest courses on earth, locked behind almost impenetrable Japanese privacy.

The Burma Road — English golf’s most televised stage. Harry Colt’s Wentworth West Course, enhanced by Ernie Els, is the BMW PGA Championship’s demanding Surrey woodland arena.

Harry Colt’s more demanding companion to Willie Park Jr.’s Old Course — many scratch golfers rate the New Course Sunningdale’s finest 18 holes. Together they form England’s greatest heathland experience.