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.
38 live Nile crocodiles on the 13th island green. Gary Player’s Lost City Course at Sun City is golf’s most theatrical and gloriously absurd championship venue.
The Massacre at Winged Foot — Tillinghast’s uncompromising West Course has hosted five US Opens and broken more championship dreams than any other course in New York.
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.
Bobby Jones’s Grand Slam venue. Justin Rose’s 2-iron on 18. The wicker baskets. Merion East is America’s most historically resonant and cerebral major championship course.
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.
The 17th island green — the most photographed hole on earth. Pete Dye’s Players Championship venue is the definitive amphitheatre course in professional golf.
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.
Bobby Jones’s perfect round — 66 in 1926 qualifying. Sunningdale Old is England’s finest heathland course; the New Course is its equal. Two of the country’s ten best courses on one Berkshire estate.
James Braid’s Perthshire moorland masterpiece — the King’s Course at Gleneagles is Europe’s most complete golf resort destination, with two Michelin stars and a five-star spa to match.
The PGA Tour opener in January, humpback whales offshore and 663-yard par 4s downhill to the Pacific — Kapalua Plantation is the most gloriously dramatic resort course in the Pacific.
Nicklaus’s finest African design in the Paarl wine valley — Pearl Valley is the benchmark for South African parkland golf beneath the Drakenstein mountains.
Nine US Opens, Johnny Miller’s 63 and the Church Pew bunkers — Oakmont is America’s most demanding and historically significant private club.
MacKenzie’s bunkering transformed an existing layout into one of Australia’s finest — Kingston Heath is many experts’ preferred Sandbelt course above even Royal Melbourne itself.
The famous warning sign on the 1st tee, Tiger’s 2002 US Open and the most demanding public course in America — Bethpage Black is a New York institution.
Tiger Woods’s first completed course design — strategic, demanding and full of the risk-reward decisions that define how he approaches the game. Dubai’s most thoughtfully built course.
The 2021 Ryder Cup venue on Lake Michigan — Pete Dye’s 1,000-bunker spectacular is the most visually arresting modern course in America.
MacKenzie’s self-proclaimed masterpiece — the 16th hole across the open Pacific Ocean is golf’s most audacious par 3. Cypress Point is the most coveted private course in the world.
The world’s best new course in 2015 — Cape Wickham’s lighthouse, Bass Strait headland and volcanic basalt cliffs create the most spectacular new course opening in Southern Hemisphere golf history.
Coore & Crenshaw’s masterful 2011 restoration returned Donald Ross’s vision to its wire-grass natural state. Pinehurst No. 2 hosted the 2024 US Open — the definitive American test.
Seve’s alpine redesign — the Matterhorn as backdrop, 1,500m above sea level and the European Masters since 1939. Switzerland’s most spectacular and storied championship course.
Weiskopf and Morrish’s lochside masterpiece — holes along the eastern shore of Loch Lomond with Ben Lomond rising behind. Scotland’s most beautiful parkland course.
Harry Colt’s 1927 North Sea duneland masterpiece — 30 minutes from Amsterdam and consistently rated one of Europe’s finest links courses. The Netherlands’ great undiscovered golf secret.
The hardest course in the AT&T Pro-Am — Spyglass Hill drops from Del Monte Forest to a dramatic valley below, with ocean views from the top and dense forest drama below.
Pine Valley’s legendary private island of perfection — America’s most exclusive course and the ultimate test of shot-making courage, set in New Jersey’s pinelands.
Kyle Phillips’s Arabian Gulf links — genuine sea breezes, fescue rough and authentic links conditions in the UAE. Yas Links is the Middle East’s most naturally compelling championship course.
The 2021 Olympic golf venue — Charles Alison’s deep bunkers, immaculate conditioning and Tokyo’s most accessible elite course. Kasumigaseki is Japanese golf at its most historically significant.
Tom Doak’s untouched Tasmanian potato farm — Barnbougle Dunes entered the world top 20 on opening in 2004. The most naturally beautiful links course in the Southern Hemisphere.
America’s oldest club and its finest course — Shinnecock Hills commands the Southampton barrens like a British links transplanted to Long Island. Four US Opens confirm it as America’s most demanding and authentic test.
Tom Doak’s Oregon masterpiece — no land movement, no compromise, five courses on the Pacific cliff-tops. Pacific Dunes is the finest links course built outside the British Isles.
Robert Trent Jones Sr.’s most spectacular site — seven holes along the Corsican cliff tops above the Strait of Bonifacio, with Sardinia visible across the turquoise water. The most visually dramatic course in France.
Willie Park Jr.’s 1891 Swedish masterpiece — heathland, pink granite and 18 hours of summer daylight make Gothenburg Golf Club Scandinavia’s most compelling championship course.
An LPGA Major venue above Lake Geneva with Mont Blanc on the horizon — Evian Resort Golf Club is France’s most spectacular golf destination and the most elegant major championship setting in women’s golf.
Elephants on the fairways, crocodiles in the river, leopards in the rough — Gary Player’s Leopard Creek borders Kruger National Park for the most extraordinary golf setting on earth.
MacKenzie’s greatest bunkering, the fastest greens in the Southern Hemisphere, and the most demanding sandbelt routing in Australia — Royal Melbourne West Course is one of the world’s truly great courses.
The world’s most famous course — Amen Corner, Magnolia Lane, the Butler Cabin and Bobby Jones’s vision. Augusta National is the benchmark against which all other golf is measured.
Jack Nicklaus’s perfect round. Watson’s chip on 17. Tiger’s 15-shot demolition. Pebble Beach Golf Links — the most beautiful and historically resonant public course in the world.