2-FORE!-1 six of the best

With the new season finally just around the corner, here are six more sizzling 2-FORE!-1 courses which you should definitely pencil into your 2013 golfing diary…

*Turnberry (Kintyre course), Ayrshire, Scotland – Has the unenviable position of having arguably the finest course in Britain and Ireland as its neighbour.

For that reason, it will never reach the heights it perhaps deserves. It was, after all, a final qualifying venue for the 2004. 

Highlights include the charming 8th, played downhill to a hidden green by the shore, and the views after the climb up to the 10th.

*Forest Pines, Lincs – Dubbed the ‘Woburn of the North’ and designed by John Morgan, Forest Pines offers three sets of nine holes around the majestic timber and into open heathland.

*Borth & Ynyslas, Wales – Beautiful out-and-back traditional links that overlooks Cardigan Bay on the River Dovey estuary.

*Montrose (Medal course), Angus, Scotland – Ancient East Coast links, this crusty old course dates back to the 16th century or at least records show the game being played here at that time.

*The Shire, Herts – Seve’s only legacy in course design in the UK is here on a once boring piece of farmland in North London. Now a sparkling tribute to the Spanish legend, the venue has water aplenty – on 12 holes in fact including the S-shaped (for Seve) burn on the 18th.

*Thorpeness, Suffolk – Designed by James Braid in the early 1920s, this splendid heathland is both picturesque and challenging.