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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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Southerness Golf Club (#18 in the World)
Full Review →: Southerness Golf Club (#18 in the World)Mackenzie Ross’s Solway Firth masterpiece — green fees from £50, views to the Lake District and the finest…
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Ballyliffin Golf Club — Glashedy Links (#17 in the World)
Full Review →: Ballyliffin Golf Club — Glashedy Links (#17 in the World)The 2018 Irish Open host at the tip of Donegal — Ballyliffin Glashedy is Ireland’s most remote championship…
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Machrihanish Golf Club (#16 in the World)
Full Review →: Machrihanish Golf Club (#16 in the World)Old Tom Morris’s divinely ordained links — the opening tee shot across the Atlantic beach has no equal…
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Portstewart Golf Club — Strand Course (#15 in the World)
Full Review →: Portstewart Golf Club — Strand Course (#15 in the World)Portstewart’s Thistly Hill opening dunes and the Irish Open’s 2017 host — one of the most naturally dramatic…
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Kingsbarns Golf Links (#14 in the World)
Full Review →: Kingsbarns Golf Links (#14 in the World)Kyle Phillips’s masterpiece — 11 North Sea-facing holes and a course that feels ancient despite opening in 2000.…
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Waterville Golf Links (#13 in the World)
Full Review →: Waterville Golf Links (#13 in the World)Tiger and Payne Stewart’s Open preparation ground — Waterville Links at the end of the Ring of Kerry…
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Cruden Bay Golf Club (#12 in the World)
Full Review →: Cruden Bay Golf Club (#12 in the World)Tom Morris’s masterpiece on the Firth of Forth — Cruden Bay’s Bram Stoker connection, dramatic dunes and utterly…
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Royal Liverpool Golf Club — Hoylake (#11 in the World)
Full Review →: Royal Liverpool Golf Club — Hoylake (#11 in the World)Tiger’s bunkerless 2006 Open. Rory’s 2014 demolition. The cop, the flatlands and the Wirral wind — Royal Liverpool…
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Lahinch Golf Club — Old Course (#10 in the World)
Full Review →: Lahinch Golf Club — Old Course (#10 in the World)The goats, the Dell blind par 3, the Klondyke, and the wildest Atlantic coast in Irish golf —…
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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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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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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…
