2-FORE!-1 Six of the Best

More great venues which provide a memorable round of 2-FORE!-1 golf. Get out there this weekend and enjoy the sunshine (hopefully!) with our 2-Fore!-1 scheme. Buy your vouchers now.

*Gleneagles (PGA Centenary course), Perthshire, Scotland – The PGA Centenary will stage the first Ryder Cup in Scotland in 2014 and will almost certainly produce another memorable encounter.

But the layout will have undergone major surgery since Jack Nicklaus’s original design and before Europe and the US do battle. The Golden Bear declared: “This is the finest parcel of land in the world I’ve ever been given to work with.”

*Carden Park (Nicklaus course), Cheshire – Nicklaus courses are usually pretty challenging affairs and Carden Park is no exception though it’s a fair test and by no means the most daunting of the Golden Bear’s tracks.

True, it’s over 7,000 yards off the back tips, but you’ve got to remember it’s a resort course (there’s a luxury De Vere hotel on site along with the more friendly 18 hole Cheshire course) and several tees are available.

*Surrey National, Surrey – A stunning modern clubhouse – it opened in 2003 – overlooks the 18th green and provides grandstand views over the lake and course.

*Mannings Heath (Kingfisher course) – The wonderful Waterfall (members & members guests only) may be the main golfing attraction here but the par-72 Kingfisher, at under 6,000 yards, is a much friendlier proposition.

*The Shire, Herts – Thrilling gently undulating parkland, all the handiwork of the late great Seve Ballesteros. With water features galore, including most notably the first and final holes, it’s a great match play layout. But having been designed by the Spanish legend you probably would have expected that wouldn’t you?

*Collingtree Park, Northants – This former European Tour venue was created by Johnny Miller and boasts a good combination of holes before rounding-off with a nerve-wracking par-5 to a virtual island last green.