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Top 100 Golf Courses
One hundred courses. Thirty-two countries. Six continents. Every ranking personally assessed for Golf Quality, Playability, Setting, Conditioning and the Complete Experience — the most authoritative list in golf travel.
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National Golf Links of America — Course Guide
Full Review →: National Golf Links of America — Course GuideA premium guide to National Golf Links of America, C. B. Macdonald’s influential Long Island course, its template…
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Aberdovey Golf Club — Welsh Links Course Guide
Full Review →: Aberdovey Golf Club — Welsh Links Course GuideA premium guide to Aberdovey Golf Club, covering its natural links character, strategic holes, visitor access, accommodation and…
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Costa Navarino — The Dunes Course (#70 in the World)
Full Review →: Costa Navarino — The Dunes Course (#70 in the World)Twice European Golf Resort of the Year — Costa Navarino Dunes Course combines thousand-year-old olive trees, Ionian Sea…
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Royal Adelaide Golf Club — South Australia Course Guide
Full Review →: Royal Adelaide Golf Club — South Australia Course GuideA premium guide to Royal Adelaide Golf Club, covering its dunesland strategy, signature holes, visitor access, accommodation and…
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Penha Longa — Atlantic Course (#68 in the World)
Full Review →: Penha Longa — Atlantic Course (#68 in the World)Kyle Phillips’s Sintra Hills redesign — Penha Longa’s Atlantic Course overlooks UNESCO heritage landscape from the Ritz-Carlton estate.…
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Bandon Dunes Golf Course (#67 in the World)
Full Review →: 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…
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North Berwick Golf Club — West Links Course Guide
Full Review →: North Berwick Golf Club — West Links Course GuideA premium guide to North Berwick West Links, covering its celebrated template holes, coastal strategy, visitor access, accommodation…
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Emirates Golf Club — Majlis Course (#65 in the World)
Full Review →: 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…
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Congressional Country Club — Blue Course (#64 in the World)
Full Review →: 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…
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Royal Birkdale Golf Club Review — England’s Greatest Links & Ten-Time Open Championship Venue
Read More →: Royal Birkdale Golf Club Review — England’s Greatest Links & Ten-Time Open Championship VenueRoyal Birkdale is England’s greatest links course — ten Open Championships, the finest natural turf in English golf,…
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Course Reviews, Courses, Golf Courses by Region, Top 100: UK & Ireland, UK Golf, World-Class Courses
Royal Troon Golf Club Review — Home of the Postage Stamp & Ten Open Championships
Read More →: Royal Troon Golf Club Review — Home of the Postage Stamp & Ten Open ChampionshipsRoyal Troon is an Open Championship links of dramatic contrasts — home of the Postage Stamp, ten Open…
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Course Reviews, Courses, Golf Courses by Region, Top 100: UK & Ireland, UK Golf, World-Class Courses
Royal Dornoch Golf Club Review — Tom Watson’s Favourite Course & Scotland’s Greatest Highland Links
Read More →: Royal Dornoch Golf Club Review — Tom Watson’s Favourite Course & Scotland’s Greatest Highland LinksRoyal Dornoch is Tom Watson’s favourite golf course in the world — a natural Highland links of breathtaking…
