Royal Worlington

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Par 70, 6,228 yards.

Designer: Tom Dunn/Harry Colt.
Green fees: £50 (18 holes).
Tel: 01638 715224.

Nine holes are enough to get Royal Worlington into this elite list – the undergraduates at Cambridge University who play their golf on this springy turf and quick, undulating greens are very fortunate indeed. When designing it, Tom Dunn is reported to have said “God meant this land to be a golf course.”