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Wilpshire is an entertaining moorland course with some good golf and great views
Brancepeth Castle is an exhilarating parkland/woodland course played across good turf on the outskirts of Durham.
Writing a golf course review for Dewsbury District Golf Club should be a piece of cake for me.
Following a significant million-pound investment over the last few years I believe Pleasington can rightly claim to be the top inland course in Lancashire, possibly the entire North-West and arguably further afield.
In many ways Low Laithes is your typical private-members Yorkshire golf club.
The Halifax Golf Club, often better known as Ogden, is a course that divides opinion. My own viewpoint is that it's brilliant!
Burnley - aka Glen View - is a cracking little course perched up on the hillside above Burnley.
Kilmacolm is a golf course that squeezes every last drop out of its wonderful location to provide some highly engaging golf.
The Carrick Golf Course at the Cameron Club on Loch Lomond is a popular destination for all types of golfer.
It's impossible not to enjoy a round of golf at Pitlochry where you are surrounded by stunning scenery.
The East Renfrewshire Golf Club boasts a truly wonderful setting for golf and produces some highly entertaining golf.
Auchterarder literally lives in the shadow of the famous Gleneagles Golf Resort but is a place which should be played if visiting this area of Perthshire.
Edzell is a great value golf course ands has a nice variety of holes in a splendid location.
Downfield is an immaculately presented parkland course with an excellent championship pedigree.
Forfar provides a thrilling round of golf over amazing terrain.
Glenbervie is an immaculate parkland golf course with springy turf in a most wonderful setting.
The new JCB course in Staffordshire certainly makes a statement.
No less than three courses, ranked by number reflecting their age, constitute Gullane Golf Club.
If Muirfield is regarded as the King of East Lothian then North Berwick is undoubtedly Queen.
The 18 holes at Kilspindie are such an enjoyable place to play links golf.
Mount Juliet is your typical big & bold, modern ‘championship’ golf course and resort.
All eyes will be on the Adare Manor Estate in County Limerick, Ireland when it hosts The Ryder Cup in 2027.
Located in a National Park in the heart of County Kerry The Killarney Golf & Fishing Resort has a postcard perfect setting for good quality parkland golf.
Old Head must be one of the most photographed golf courses in the world.
Murcar is a championships links in the very finest Scottish tradition.
Pitreavie was a very pleasant and unexpected surprise on a recent family holiday to Scotland.
I stumbled across Sedbergh Golf Club on the way home from a visit to play Penrith in Cumbria.
I have made a concerted effort to play a lot of courses in Cumbria over the last couple of years but easily-accessible Penrith has always seemed to elude me.
Ulverston is a lovely South Cumbrian wooded-parkland course with some sloping fairways and high quality greens.
Carlisle is a classy parkland course in the heart of Cumbria.
Brampton is a James Braid roller-coaster of a golf course situated at Talkin Tarn just to the East of Carlisle.
If you enjoy rolling parkland golf in a glorious setting then Rolls of Monmouth will be right up your street.
In my quest to play all the true links golf courses in Great Britain & Ireland I thought I had just about seen everything but then along comes St. David’s City Golf Club!
Playing at Clyne gives a real joy to be alive factor.
I visited Newport Links Golf Club at Newport Sands in the hope of discovering a true links course that had been omitted from the “True Links” book.
Abersoch Golf Club, or Clwb Golff Abersoch, is a links-parkland hybrid on the Llyn Peninsula in North Wales.
Wrexham Golf Club was a very pleasant surprise on a recent trip to Wales for the National Club Golfer Magazine.
If you haven’t been to Maesdu for a while you may be a little confused the next time you play it.
Waterville provides a fantastic mix of championship golf & more quirky duney fun.
Dooks is just an absolute joy to play. It’s a golf course that encourages shot making for better players yet is truly playable for all abilities. What more could you desire?
Dingle Golf Links, sometimes referred to as Ceann Sibéal Golf Club, is one that is trending in the right direction.
Castlegregory is a fantastic little nine hole links course tucked away between the scenic Lough Gill and Brandon Bay at Stradbally in County Kerry.
There’s lots of eye candy at Trump International Golf Links, Doonbeg and this provides a visual overload at times but importantly the underlying golf is very good and contains lots of strategy.
Ireland has its fair share of bonkers nine-hole golf courses and Spanish Point is a case in point.
Lahinch benefits from having two 18 hole links courses and whilst the Castle is a much inferior version of the Old course it is still worth playing... if you have the time.
If you asked me to show you an example of everything I love about a golf course then I’d quite possibly take you for a round at Lahinch.
The Yellow nine at Portmarnock Golf Club was created by Fred Hawtree in 1971 and plays mostly inside the Red and Blue nines which comprise the ‘Old’ championship course.
A grand old golf club which is more than just the links and should be a day to be savoured.
If anyone dare claim there is a better 36 holes of links golf at one golf club in England than at Saunton I'm pretty sure I could make an unquestionable case for this wonderful piece of linksland.
Royal North Devon, or Westward Ho! as it is often fondly referred to, is a very special place. Perhaps it should be called Royal North Heaven!
Located close to Hartlepool in the North-East corner of England Seaton Carew, where golf dates back to 1874, has a reputation for being a bleak, chilly and grim links.
Located high up on the moors, just outside the City of Bradford, Baildon is a stunning 18 hole moorland course with views over Ilkley Moor, the Yorkshire Dales and beyond.
I was fortunate enough to play La Moye twice on a quick golf trip to the Channel Islands.
The start to the round at Royal Jersey is just about as good as it gets.
Royal Guernsey is a rough and ready links situated at L’Ancresse on the island of Guernsey.
Les Ormes was the perfect way to kick start a short golf trip to the The Channel Islands.
The second course at Trevose very rarely crops in conversation but during a family holiday to the Cornish Resort I made sure to play it.
The third course at Trevose, aptly named the "Short Course" is just 1,360 yards.
The game of golf has the ability to take you on amazing journeys to the most wondrous places where you meet such interesting people.
It was an impulsive, crazy… and some would say utterly ridiculous… decision that took me to The Machrie in the Spring of 2018.
I concluded a six-day, 14-course trip to Ireland with a round at Warren Municipal. Why?... you might ask. And rightly so.
I have been fortunate enough to play golf in many stunning locations throughout Great Britain & Ireland and Connemara Isles is right up there with the best of them.
The remote and rocky landscape at Connemara is both unique and beautiful. It really is a truly stunning location for golf.
Mulranny is simply joyous, a place where you could learn all the lessons of the links.
Achill Island is located off the west coast of Ireland in County Mayo and reached by a small bridge. Civilisation doesn’t quite end but it's very remote. Barren and beautiful.
The Bomore layout at County Sligo is a nine-hole relief course located a short drive away from the main clubhouse.
The Scurmore nine at Enniscrone is a nine-hole relief course located adjacent to the main course but on flatter ground away from the dunes.
Bundoran is not your typical Irish Links. It is played along the clifftops and has more of a holiday-golf feel to it. The big-wheel that you can see from the first tee gives you an idea of the surrounding area.
Ever since I was young Narin & Portnoo has held a certain mystique. Maybe it is just the name or the fact it is located on the wild west Atlantic coast of Ireland I’m not sure.
Gweedore sounds more like a character out of Harry Potter than a small, remote Irish speaking district perched along the Wild Atlantic Way.
Dunfanaghy is one of Donegal and Ireland’s lesser known links and home to professional golfer Paul McGinley.
Not many golfers will know that the Rosapenna Resort also has a nine hole course in addition to the more famous Sandyhills, Old Tom Morris and now St. Patrick’s.
When a new golf course debuts so highly in all the various rankings my ears usually prick up pretty quickly and this was especially the case with St. Patrick’s and the lofty positions it received.
Buncrana is a brilliantly bonkers nine-hole links golf course at the gateway to the Inishowen Peninsula in County Donegal with superb views overlooking Loch Swilly.
Sunningdale is a great golf club with two fantastic heathland golf courses.
After a couple of false starts earlier this year it was fabulous to finally get to see Dumbarnie Links. It is easy to see why it proves to be a big hit with many golfers and has debuted so high in all the rankings.
Golf doesn't get any closer to the North Sea than at Dunbar.
Some golf clubs hit you with a 'wow' factor the moment you drive through their gates. Woodsome Hall is certainly one of those.
Eyemouth is an easy-going, golf course with many different sections but mostly plays along the clifftops of the beautiful coastline close to the England-Scotland border.
Bruntsfield Links is not just one of many fine parkland golf courses around Edinburgh, it is arguably the best.
There is something about Elie that puts you under a spell. It is a truly magical links that, after just one round, has won a place in my heart and mind forever.
The SCHLOSS Roxburghe is a golf course that probably gets a little overlooked when discussing the best of golf in Scotland. It's away from the sea and not particularly close to any of the main popular Scottish destinations.
The Jubilee course carries on in much the same vein as the New. It is slightly longer at 6,742 yards but has a par of 72 so in reality plays about the same length.
There’s no doubting that the Castle course doesn’t fit easily into the collection of courses that are administered by the St. Andrews Links Trust.
After nine holes I was wondering if the Eden links would be my favourite of all the courses at St. Andrews and, despite a run of blander holes on the back-nine, it is still more than worth seeing.
The New course, albeit built back in 1895 by Old Tom Morris, is a championship links in its own right; par is 71 and the maximum yardage is 6,625.
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