Top 100 courses in the UK
The Top 100 UK Golf Courses
Golf World Top 100 Courses in the UK: 10 - 6
By TG Courses Editor
Course News
23 October 2008 14:52
Loch Lomond and Royal Portrush are just two of the highlights in the first half the top 10 golf courses in the UK and Ireland.
They form the pinnacle of the Golf World Top 100 golf courses list and below you can find out lots more about them, including what other golfers think of them.
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Park, Colt, 1900
6,627 yards, par 70
Sunningdale, Surrey |
GREEN FEES: March-October 2008, £180 per person.
CONTACT: 01344 621681,
www.sunningdale-golfclub.co.uk
CLUB COMMENT: No recent changes.
The best of a brillant bunch, this year’s Women’s British Open venue reigns supreme in the congested ‘heathlands to the south-west of London’ category. It’s hardly surprising, though. Anybody fortunate enough to have ventured onto Harry Colt’s masterpiece can’t fail to have been impressed, and most likely tormented. It’s not long, but it’s so subtle, so serene and so capable of suckering in those who underestimate it.
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Weiskopf, Morrish, 1994
7,140 yards, par 72
Dunbartonshire, Scotland |
GREEN FEES: Members only.
CONTACT: 01436 655555,
www.lochlomond.com
CLUB COMMENT: Many subtle changes have been made – trees cleared out left and right of the wall and new mounding put in on the 2nd, a new pond on the 3rd, new bunkering and green run-offs at the 4th and new tees on 14, 16, 17 and 18. There’s also a new short-game facility and extensive drainage work
has been completed, including a new sub-air system.
A welcome return to the top 10 for Loch Lomond. It might be the exclusive preserve of Tour players and privileged members such as Prince Andrew, but the quality of the lochside design and the immaculate conditioning of the course make it one of the world’s greatest inland venues.
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Hotchkin, 1896
7,080 yards, par 73
Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire |
GREEN FEES: From May 1, 2009; £67.50 if you’re a member of an English golf club, £80 for nonmembers; £45 November-April, £55 non-members.
CONTACT: 01526 352511,
www.woodhallspagolf.com
CLUB COMMENT: No changes since 2006.
It might have slipped a place in the ranking, but Woodhall remains the top inland course in Britain and Ireland. It might not have the grandiose setting of Loch Lomond or the heritage of Sunningdale, but tucked away in the Lincolnshire fens lies a course that is heathland perfection. Set in a deep forest, festooned with heather and boasting beastly yellow sand bunkers, it’s simply a joy to behold.
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Colt, 1888
6,867 yards, par 73
County Antrim, Ireland |
GREEN FEES: £120-£135 summer, £60 November- March. Expect £5 or £10 extra from March.
CONTACT: 028 7082 2311,
www.royalportushgolfclub.com
CLUB COMMENT: A new tee at the back of 15 makes it a bit longer and we will be working on the championship tees to extend the course for 2009.
With the likes of Pine Valley, Sunningdale and Rye on his CV, it says much of Royal Portrush that Harry Colt considered it his masterpiece. He wasn’t alone – the course was granted Royal status just four years after its inception as a nine-holer and remains the only Irish club to have hosted The Open. It’s tough, with fierce rough and small greens, but the views across the Giant’s Causeway and Dunluce Castle are as spectacular as the course.
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Robertson, Morris, Braid, 1839
6,941 yards, par 72
Carnoustie, Angus |
GREEN FEES: Winter £50-£62; Summer from April 2009, £130.
CONTACT: 01241 802270,
www.carnoustiegolflinks.co.uk
CLUB COMMENT: No significant changes.
Much like Hoylake, Carnoustie’s successful hosting of the Open Championship has jogged a few memories and reminded the world what a brilliant course it is. We all know it’s a fearsome test, and that its closing stretch is a graveyard of broken dreams (just ask Sergio), but Carnoustie is no three-hole pony. Indeed, the likes of Hogan’s Alley, South America and Spectacles are among the most famous holes in the world, while Martin Hawtree’s work across the rest of the course has confirmed it as one of the world’s very best.
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