81 – 90
Welcome to the most prestigious and most definitive ranking of the best golf courses in Great Britain and Ireland.
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81 Rosapenna Sandy HillsGolf was first played here in 1891 and the Old Tom Morris is still a very enjoyable, traditional links – but it is the Pat Ruddy-designed Sandy Hills which is the blockbuster at Rosapenna. |
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82 WorplesdonAn exquisite heathland cut between chestnut and pine trees. The short holes are particularly memorable – the 10th a fine hole over water and the 13th a downhill, well-bunkered challenge. |
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83 SouthernessA brilliant, typically Scottish links which would be even more highly regarded if it was in Fife. |
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84 AberdoveyThis is where Ian Woosnam learnt the game and it is a classic out-and-back links which is wedged between the Cambrian mountains and the sea. |
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85 Lough ErneNick Faldo’s first course in Ireland was commissioned by supermarket mogul and golf fan Jim Treacy. It is a spectacular layout, and Faldo’s passion and commitment to course design cannot be questioned. |
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86 Chart HillsNick Faldo’s first step into design will always be remembered for the bunkers. As it happens, not only did the six-time Major champion merely do the fine tuning at Chart Hills – American Steve Smyers did much of the work – the bunkers are a bit of a red herring. |
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87 BroadstoneOne of many Top 100 entries for Harry Colt, who was asked to modify Broadstone using a typically terrific stretch of heathland which lies to the west of the railway line. |
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88 The AddingtonProbably the most quirky inland course in this list: deep chasms traversed by thin wooden bridges, exceptionally tight fairways and acute dog-legs. |
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89 Royal Ashdown ForestOne of the 25 courses listed in our first ranking in 1982, it has never slipped from the league. Remarkably the course has not a single bunker on it – but that doesn’t mean it is easy. |
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90 New ZealandAlthough under 6,000 yards long, its par of 68 ensures a round here isn’t littered with birdies and tap-in pars. Designed in 1895 by Samuel Fergusson, who was also both founder and then secretary, the course has six two-shotters over 400 yards. |
