Golf de Morfontaine (#81 in the World)
France’s most private golf club — Tom Simpson’s 1927 Picardy heathland masterpiece rivals Sunningdale for design quality and remains almost entirely unknown outside French golf circles.
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Bandon Trails (#80 in the World)
Bandon’s most architecturally sophisticated course — Coore and Crenshaw’s inland forest routing delivers more terrain variety and strategic depth than any other course at the Oregon resort.
Old Prestwick Golf Club (#79 in the World)
The birthplace of The Open Championship in 1860 — Old Prestwick’s Cardinal Bunker, Alps blind hole and Victorian character make this the most historically profound round in Scottish golf.
Camiral Stadium Course — Championship Golf in Girona
A guide to Camiral’s Stadium Course in Girona: championship golf, accommodation, wellness and practical planning for a Costa Brava golf break.
Kawana Hotel Golf Course — Fuji Course (#77 in the World)
Mount Fuji on the horizon, eight Pacific clifftop holes and Charles Alison’s finest Japanese design — Kawana Fuji Course is Japan’s most accessible great course and most dramatic setting.
Royal Troon Golf Club — Old Course Guide
A premium guide to Royal Troon’s Old Course, covering the Postage Stamp, championship strategy, visitor access, Ayrshire accommodation and recovery planning.
Blackwolf Run — River Course (#75 in the World)
Blackwolf Run’s River Course is a Pete Dye river-valley test in Kohler, Wisconsin. TGG covers its strategy, championship history, resort facilities, recovery and how to build a wider Kohler Course Swing.
Sentosa Golf Club — Serapong Course (#74 in the World)
Singapore Open host and Southeast Asia’s finest course — Sentosa Serapong combines tropical jungle drama, Straits of Singapore views and a city that is also the world’s greatest food destination.
Les Bordes Golf International (#73 in the World)
Les Bordes’ Old Course is Robert von Hagge’s demanding forest-and-water test in France’s Loire Valley. TGG covers the course, private access reality, the wider estate and how to plan a Loire golf journey.
National Golf Links of America — Course Guide
A premium guide to National Golf Links of America, C. B. Macdonald’s influential Long Island course, its template holes, strategic character and place in golf architecture.
Aberdovey Golf Club — Welsh Links Course Guide
A premium guide to Aberdovey Golf Club, covering its natural links character, strategic holes, visitor access, accommodation and recovery planning on the Welsh coast.
Costa Navarino Dunes Course — Golf Trip & Resort Guide
Plan a Costa Navarino golf trip around The Dunes Course, resort stays, recovery and the wider four-course Messinia itinerary. Current course facts link to TGG Course Intelligence.
Royal Adelaide Golf Club — South Australia Course Guide
A premium guide to Royal Adelaide Golf Club, covering its dunesland strategy, signature holes, visitor access, accommodation and recovery planning in South Australia.
Penha Longa Atlantic Championship — Golf in the Sintra Hills
Explore Penha Longa’s Atlantic Championship Course, its Robert Trent Jones Jr. design and how to plan a golf and spa break in Sintra near Lisbon.
Bandon Dunes Golf Course (#67 in the World)
The course that launched America’s greatest resort story — David McLay Kidd’s 1999 original Bandon Dunes remains the most quintessentially Scottish experience in American golf.
North Berwick Golf Club — West Links Course Guide
A premium guide to North Berwick West Links, covering its celebrated template holes, coastal strategy, visitor access, accommodation and recovery planning in East Lothian.
Emirates Golf Club — Majlis Course (#65 in the World)
The first grass course in the Middle East — Faldo’s 1989 inaugural Dubai Desert Classic win. Emirates Golf Club’s Majlis Course created golf in the Gulf and looks better now than ever.
Congressional Country Club — Blue Course (#64 in the World)
Rory McIlroy’s record-breaking 2011 US Open. Four US Opens in all. Congressional Blue Course is Washington DC’s most historically significant golf venue.
Quinta do Lago South Course — Algarve Golf Guide
Quinta do Lago South Course guide: William Mitchell’s par-72 Algarve championship parkland, Portuguese Open history, playing character and resort trip planning.
Erin Hills Golf Course (#62 in the World)
Brooks Koepka’s 2017 US Open venue — Erin Hills’ Wisconsin glacial moraines and links-style fescue fairways create the most ambitious modern course in the American Midwest.
Burnham & Berrow Golf Club (#61 in the World)
Burnham & Berrow is a distinctive Somerset links where dunes, firm ground and Bristol Channel exposure reward controlled flight, positioning and adaptable course management.
New South Wales Golf Club (#60 in the World)
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.
Riviera Country Club (#59 in the World)
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.
Hamburger Golf Club (#58 in the World)
Harry Colt’s 1906 Fischbeker Heide masterpiece — Germany’s finest course is a Surrey-quality heathland that remains Europe’s most underrated golf destination.
Sun City — Lost City Golf Course (#57 in the World)
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.
Winged Foot Golf Club — West Course (#56 in the World)
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.
Hirono Golf Club (#55 in the World)
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.
Merion Golf Club — East Course (#54 in the World)
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.
Wentworth Club — West Course (#53 in the World)
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.
TPC Sawgrass — Stadium Course (#52 in the World)
The 17th island green — the most photographed hole on earth. Pete Dye’s Players Championship venue is the definitive amphitheatre course in professional golf.
Sunningdale Golf Club — New Course (#51 in the World)
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.
Sunningdale Golf Club — Old Course (#50 in the World)
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.
Gleneagles — The King’s Course (#49 in the World)
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.
Kapalua — The Plantation Course (#48 in the World)
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.
Pearl Valley Golf Estate (#47 in the World)
Nicklaus’s finest African design in the Paarl wine valley — Pearl Valley is the benchmark for South African parkland golf beneath the Drakenstein mountains.
Oakmont Country Club — Pennsylvania Course Guide
A premium guide to Oakmont Country Club, covering its strategic character, famous hazards, visitor access, accommodation and recovery planning near Pittsburgh.
Kingston Heath Golf Club — Melbourne Sandbelt Course Guide
A premium guide to Kingston Heath Golf Club, covering its Sandbelt strategy, famous bunkering, visitor access, accommodation and recovery planning in Melbourne.
Bethpage State Park — Black Course (#44 in the World)
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.
Trump International Golf Club Dubai (#43 in the World)
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.
Whistling Straits — Straits Course (#42 in the World)
The 2021 Ryder Cup venue on Lake Michigan — Pete Dye’s 1,000-bunker spectacular is the most visually arresting modern course in America.
