Royal County Down Golf Club
The Championship Links at Newcastle, County Down, founded in 1889 beneath the Mountains of Mourne and ranked first in the world by Golf Digest:…
Course profiles
Golf courses in the United Kingdom
Course profiles built from official and public sources: yardage, the hole to know, the season that suits the course and what a round costs.
The Maidenhead Golf Club
Founded in 1896, the club left its Shoppenhangers Road course on 31 December 2025, which is making way for up to 1,500 homes. It…
Richmond Park Golf Course
Two public 18-hole courses in Richmond Park, London, opened in 1923 and 1925: the Duke's, 6,321 yards and par 71, and the Prince's, 5,366…
Queenwood Golf Club
A private heathland-style course in Ottershaw, Surrey, designed by David McLay Kidd and opened in 2001: par 72 and 6,830 to 6,880 yards from…
Moortown Golf Club
Alister MacKenzie's 1909 heathland course in Alwoodley, north Leeds, host of the first Ryder Cup played in Britain in 1929: 7,001 yards from the…
Prenton Golf Club
A Wirral parkland club founded in 1905 whose 18 holes opened in 1923, with views to the Welsh hills: 6,388 yards and par 71…
Manchester Golf Club
Harry Colt's moorland course at Hopwood, Middleton, home of a club founded in 1882 and host of the 2026 Women's English Open: 6,491 yards…
Llanishen Golf Club
A short, steep parkland on Cardiff's northern hillside below Caerphilly Mountain, founded as Llanishen in 1905: 5,348 yards and par 68 from the whites,…
Horsforth Golf Club
An 18-hole parkland course founded in 1906 beside Leeds Bradford Airport, advised on by MacKenzie in 1913 and Braid in 1925: 6,329 yards and…
Langland Bay Golf Club
A clifftop course above Langland Bay in Mumbles, Swansea, first recorded in 1901 and opened in 1904, later revised on James Braid's advice: 18…
Holywell Golf Club
An 18-hole inland links on Brynford Common above Holywell, Flintshire, founded in 1906 on the Duke of Westminster's land, played over old lead mines…
Holyhead Golf Club
A James Braid heathland course of 1912 on Holy Island, Anglesey, built with railway money above Trearddur Bay: 5,999 yards and par 71 from…
Hartlepool Golf Club
A links at Hart Warren on the North Sea, founded in 1906, extended by Willie Park Jr in 1911 and reworked by James Braid…
Guildford Golf Club
Surrey's self-described oldest golf club, founded in 1886 on the chalk of Merrow Downs and reshaped by J.H. Taylor and Hawtree: 18 holes, 6,117…
Gosport & Stokes Bay Golf Club
A nine-hole links with 18 tees and 11 greens on the Solent at Gosport, founded in 1885 as the United Services Golf Club, where…
Frinton Golf Club
A members' seaside course at Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, founded in 1895 and laid out by Willie Park Jr in 1904 with later changes by Harry…
Foxhills Golf Club
A 45-hole Surrey resort at Ottershaw with two Fred Hawtree courses opened in 1975 and a par-3 nine; its Longcross, par 72 and about…
Formby Golf Club
A championship links at Freshfield, Formby, founded in 1884 and shaped by Park, Braid, Colt and Steel: 18 holes, par 72 and 7,128 yards…
Felixstowe Ferry Golf Club
A members' club founded in 1880 at the mouth of the River Deben, with 27 holes: the Martello, an 18-hole links of par 72…
Exeter Golf and Country Club
A private members' parkland course at Countess Wear, Exeter, laid out by James Braid in 1929 around the Georgian house of Wear Park: 18…
Enmore Park Golf Club
A members' parkland course on the lower slopes of the Quantock Hills near Bridgwater, founded at Cannington in 1906 and extended to 18 holes…
The Buckinghamshire Golf Club
A private members' parkland course at Denham, designed by John Jacobs and opened in 1992 around Denham Court, a Grade II listed house: 18…
Earlswood Golf Club
A family-run, pay-as-you-play course at Jersey Marine, between Neath and Swansea, with views over Swansea Bay: 18 holes, par 68 and 5,174 yards from…
Abersoch Golf Club (Clwb Golff Abersoch)
A links and parkland course behind the beach at Abersoch, on the Llŷn Peninsula, founded in 1907 and laid out by Harry Vardon: 18…
Chorlton-cum-Hardy Golf Club
A members' parkland course beside the River Mersey in south Manchester, founded in 1902 or 1903 depending on the source, with the Grade II…
Caprington Golf Club
Kilmarnock's oldest public course, opened in 1909 as the town's municipal course and run by its members since 2015 as Caprington Community Golf Club:…
Ballochmyle Golf Club
An inland parkland course on the old Ballochmyle estate outside Mauchline, in Ayrshire's Burns Country: 18 holes, par 70 and 5,972 yards from the…
Worthing Golf Club
A members' club founded in 1905 on the South Downs above Worthing, below Cissbury Ring, with two eighteen-hole courses: the Colt (formerly the Lower),…
Western Gailes Golf Club
A traditional Ayrshire links founded in 1897 by four Glasgow golfers, laid out by its first greenkeeper on a narrow strip between the Firth…
Waterton Park Golf Club
An eighteen-hole parkland course designed by Simon Gidman and opened in 1995 around the lake of Walton Hall, near Wakefield, inside the walled park…
Trevose Golf & Country Club
A family-owned links resort at Constantine Bay near Padstow, with a Harry Colt Championship Course opened in 1925, par 72 and 6,948 yards from…
The West Berkshire Golf Club
An eighteen-hole downland course opened in 1975 at Chaddleworth, on the Berkshire Downs between Newbury and Wantage, par 73 and 7,008 yards from the…
The Millbrook Golf Club
A member-owned eighteen-hole course on the Greensand Ridge beside Millbrook, between Woburn and Ampthill, laid out in 1977 and opened around 1980, measuring 6,924…
St Pierre Country Club
A resort club near Chepstow with two eighteen-hole courses: the Old Course, opened in 1962 to a C. K. Cotton design, par 72 and…
South Beds Golf Club
A chalk downland club founded in 1892 below Galley Hill and Warden Hill on the northern edge of Luton, with the eighteen-hole Galley Hill…
Seaford Head Golf Club
A council-owned clifftop course at the eastern end of Seaford, East Sussex, where golf dates back to 1887: eighteen holes, par 71, 5,806 yards…
Sand Martins Golf Club
A proprietary course opened in 1993 on Finchampstead Road, Wokingham, built as two contrasting loops: a parkland front nine with lakes and dog-legs, a…
Seaford Golf Club
A downland course laid out by J.H. Taylor in 1907 on the chalk above East Blatchington, Seaford, for a club founded in 1887: par…
Royal Worlington and Newmarket Golf Club
The Sacred Nine at Worlington, near Mildenhall in Suffolk: a nine-hole course on sandy ground, founded in 1893, home to Cambridge University golf since…
Royal Liverpool Golf Club
The links at Hoylake on the Wirral, founded in 1869 on an old racecourse: par 72 and 7,341 yards for members, host of thirteen…
Radcliffe-on-Trent Golf Club
A parkland course east of Nottingham founded in 1909 by Tom Williamson and reshaped by Frank Pennink in 1972: par 70, 6,495 yards from…
North Inch Golf Course
Perth's public course on the banks of the Tay, where golf is recorded from 1599 and Old Tom Morris won the first Perth Tournament…
Newbury & Crookham Golf Club
A club founded at Crookham in 1873 that plays a 1923 course on the hillside above Newbury Racecourse: par 69 and 5,902 yards from…
Moyola Park Golf Club
A parkland course of 1977 in the old Shanemullagh estate at Castledawson, County Londonderry, with the River Moyola running through it: par 71, 6,454…
Longridge Golf Club
A hilltop course on Longridge Fell above Preston, born of a cycling club founded in 1877 and extended to eighteen holes by its members…
Lanark Golf Club
Founded on The Moor in 1851 and claimed as the oldest inland course in the world: a par 70 of 6,428 yards on glacial…
Lambourne Golf Club
Donald Steel's parkland course of the early 1990s at Burnham, Buckinghamshire: oaks, beeches and six lakes, par 72 and 6,834 yards from the black…
Huyton & Prescot Golf Club
A tree-lined parkland course of 6,021 yards and par 68 at Hurst Park, Huyton, with five par 3s, a 1970s rebuild of a Braid…
Huddersfield Golf Club
Tom Dunn's course of 1891 on the Fixby estate above Huddersfield, played from the Georgian Fixby Hall: 6,499 yards, par 71 and a slope…
Harpenden Common Golf Club
A par 70 of 6,001 yards in Hertfordshire, eleven holes on a public common crossed by roads and a cricket pitch, seven on the…
Glamorganshire Golf Club
A Penarth club of 1890 and the birthplace of the Stableford system: a parkland course of 6,134 yards and par 70 beside Cosmeston Lakes,…
Ganton Golf Club
Inland links of 1891 in the Vale of Pickering, shaped by Vardon, Colt and MacKenzie, host of the 1949 Ryder Cup and the 2003…
Forest of Arden Country Club
Two Donald Steel courses on the Packington estate near Meriden: the Arden, a par 72 of 6,725 yards from the whites that hosted the…
Dundonald Links
Kyle Phillips's modern links at Gailes, on ground where Willie Fernie laid out a course in 1911: par 72, 7,100 yards on the club's…
Dullatur Golf Club
Two eighteen-hole parkland courses above Cumbernauld, a club of 1896 beside the Antonine Wall: the Carrickstone, 6,134 yards and par 70, and Dave Thomas's…
Denham Golf Club
Harry Colt's course of 1911 on gravel in the Colne Valley, with a sixteenth-century farmhouse for a clubhouse and its own railway station from…
Dalmally Golf Club
A volunteer-built nine-hole course on the River Orchy at Dalmally, between Ben Cruachan and Ben Lui: par 64 and 4,427 yards over eighteen holes,…
Dale Hill Golf Club
Two 18-hole courses and a hotel on 350 acres of the High Weald at Ticehurst, East Sussex: the Old Course of 1973, par 69…
Colonsay Golf Club
Eighteen holes on the machair at Machrins, on the west coast of the Isle of Colonsay, first played by repute in 1775: 4,752 yards,…
Collingtree Park Golf Club
Johnny Miller's first signature course in the British Isles, opened in 1990 two miles from junction 15 of the M1 at Northampton: par 70,…
Cardiff Golf Club
Tree-lined parkland in Cyncoed, on the north side of the Welsh capital: 18 holes, par 70, 6,090 yards from the White tees, laid out…
Castle Douglas Golf Club
Tree-lined nine-hole parkland on the edge of Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway, founded in 1905: par 68 and 5,390 yards over two circuits, with…
Burnham & Berrow Golf Club
A links among the Somerset dunes at Burnham-on-Sea, founded in 1890 and shaped by Fowler, Colt, Alison and MacKenzie: par 71, 7,023 yards from…
Wick Golf Club
At Reiss, three miles north of Wick in Caithness, the oldest established club in the Highlands (1870): an 18-hole out-and-back links by John Sutherland,…
Brodick Golf Club
On the Isle of Arran, beside Brodick Bay and walking distance from the ferry: an 18-hole parkland and seaside course, par 65 over 4,750…
Turnberry (Ailsa Course)
On the South Ayrshire coast, the Ailsa at Turnberry: an 18-hole links laid out by Willie Fernie from 1901, rebuilt by Mackenzie Ross in…
Bedfordshire Golf Club
At Stagsden, west of Bedford, the county's oldest club (founded 1891) plays an 18-hole Cameron Sinclair course opened in 2000: par 70, 6,560 yards…
Bearwood Lakes Golf Club
A private members' club at Sindlesham, near Wokingham in Berkshire: 18 holes, par 72, 6,488 yards from the whites, designed by Martin Hawtree and…
Beaconsfield Golf Club
Harry Colt parkland at Seer Green, near Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire: 18 holes, par 72, 6,584 yards from the Black tees, designed in 1913 and opened…
Annanhill Golf Club
A municipal parkland course in the grounds of the Annanhill Estate, Kilmarnock, run by East Ayrshire Leisure Trust: 18 holes, par 71, 6,192 yards…
Woodham Golf & Country Club
A James Hamilton Stutt parkland course opened in 1981 on 229 acres of County Durham, formerly Rushyford: a par 73 of 6,688 yards with…
The Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh
Instituted in 1735 and widely recognised as the oldest golf club in the world: a Tom Morris layout at Barnton, reshaped by Willie Park…
The Richmond Golf Club
Tom Dunn's 1891 course in Sudbrook Park beside Richmond Park, re-bunkered by Peter Thomson and Tim Lobb, with a Grade I Georgian house for…
The Renaissance Club
Tom Doak's 2008 course at Dirleton, a mile from Muirfield: wooded inland holes, links ground on the Firth of Forth, and the Scottish Open…
The Belfry — Brabazon Course
Four Ryder Cups, more than any venue in the world: a par 72 built on farmland by Thomas and Alliss, carried by a driveable…
Strathlene Golf Club
Established in 1877 on ground gifted to Buckie and extended to eighteen in 1936: a clifftop par 69 of undulating fairways, gullies and elevated…
Storws Wen Golf Club
Built in 1996 by Ken and Eleri Jones at Brynteg on Anglesey: nine holes with alternate tees on four of them, known above all…
Stoke Park
Colt and Alison, 1908, on a Capability Brown estate five miles from Windsor: the par-3 seventh of Goldfinger, closed in 2021, restored and reopened…
Skipton Golf Club
Founded at Gargrave in 1893 and moved to the edge of the market town in 1896: a Dales upland course of thirteen par 4s,…
Sand Moor Golf Club
An Alister MacKenzie moorland course above Eccup reservoir, built in 1921: a par 71 of 6,446 yards whose four original short holes are the…
Royal Ascot Golf Club
Named by Queen Victoria in 1887 and played inside the racecourse for 118 years, the club moved in 2005 to a par 70 of…
Prestwick Golf Club
The course where the Open began on 17 October 1860, over three rounds of twelve holes: twenty-four Opens, blind shots, and a wind off…
Nairn Golf Club
Founded in 1887 on the Moray Firth, reworked by Old Tom Morris and bunkered by James Braid: 6,832 yards, the Walker Cup in 1999,…
Moray Golf Club
Old Tom Morris laid out the Lossiemouth links in 1889, sixteen holes at first: revetted bunkers, gorse-lined fairways and a par 71 finishing back…
Little Aston Golf Club
Designed by Harry Vardon in 1908 for ten guineas and softened by Harry Colt: a par 72 north of Birmingham, rated England's best parkland,…
Kirkhill Golf Club
Founded in 1910 by breakaway Cambuslang members and laid out by James Braid: a hilly par 70 above the Clyde valley that staged Vardon…
Erskine Golf Club
Willie Fernie laid it out in 1904, MacKenzie touched two holes and Braid rebuilt it in 1937: a par 71 whose holes nine to…
Duff House Royal Golf Club
Founded in 1910 on the Duke of Fife's land beside the River Deveron and redesigned by Alister MacKenzie in 1923: a par 68 whose…
Buckpool Golf Club
A J.H. Taylor clifftop links built in 1933 as relief work when the herring fishery failed: a par 70 of 6,127 yards above the…
Alwoodley Golf Club
Alister MacKenzie's first course, founded in 1907 north of Leeds: a par 71 of 6,914 yards cut out of heather and gorse, with the…
The Blackwell Grange Golf Club
A 1930 club in the grounds of Blackwell Hall above the Tees: conditioning reviewers call immaculate, greens they call tricky, and corridors ninety years…
Sandford Springs Golf Club
Three Hawtree nines on the Kingsclere ridge with a hotel on site: greens reviewers rate among the best they have played, and a service…
Royal Musselburgh Golf Club
The sixth oldest club in the world, playing for a trophy first won in 1774, on Braid parkland at Prestongrange: sheltered when the links…
Royal Aberdeen Golf Club
The sixth oldest club in the world, with an outward nine through the dunes that many rank the best in links golf, and a…
The Old Course at St Andrews
Five centuries of play on common ground, still a public course run by a trust: the double greens, the hidden bunkers, the ballot, and…
Musselburgh Links, The Old Golf Course
Nine holes inside a racecourse, documented since 1672 and holder of six Opens: the oldest golf course in the world, best played with hickories,…
Muirfield
Colt's two counter-rotating loops in East Lothian, home of the oldest rules of golf and sixteen Opens: the fairest links in Britain, on two…
Moor Park Golf Club
Harry Colt in an eighteenth-century park inside the M25, behind a Grade I listed mansion: conditioning rated among the best in the country, and…
Lindrick Golf Club
Common-land heath on limestone that drains all winter, and the course where Britain and Ireland won the 1957 Ryder Cup: firm turf, fine bunkering…
Kingsbarns Golf Links
Kyle Phillips built a convincing links out of Fife farmland in 2000: a mile and three-quarters of coastline, tour-standard conditioning, and the argument about…
Kilmarnock (Barassie) Golf Club
Championship links on the Ayrshire belt at a fraction of what the neighbours charge: fast greens, fair rough, and the honest caveat that it…
Goring and Streatley Golf Club
Colt on chalk downland above the Goring Gap, firm all winter and hilly all round: quick greens, views over the Thames Valley, and a…
Glasgow Golf Club
Old Tom Morris parkland on the Kelvin, barely touched by Braid in 1924, at the ninth oldest club in the world: superb greens, four…
Fulwell Golf Club
J.H. Taylor on flat Middlesex ground since 1904, twenty-five minutes from Heathrow: greens that reviewers rate highly and a site they find plain to…
Fulford Golf Club
Sandy flat ground outside York that gave twenty-three European Tour events their spring venue, and the ash tree Langer played from: greens that reviewers…
Fairwood Park Golf Club
Hawtree on a wartime fighter airfield at the neck of Gower: the longest test on the peninsula, greens reviewers rate highly, and a setting…
Calcot Park Golf Club
Late Harry Colt parkland west of Reading, ranked in Berkshire's top half-dozen: greens everyone praises, false fronts that catch you out, and fairways that…
Bruntsfield Links Golfing Society
The fourth oldest club in the world, now on parkland above the Forth ten minutes from Edinburgh airport: greens rated among the region's best,…
Bedford & County Golf Club
Taylor and Hawtree above the Great Ouse, requisitioned for food production in the war and not whole again until 1952: fast greens on severe…
Aspley Guise & Woburn Sands Golf Club
The modest club on the same greensand ridge as Woburn: narrow corridors through heather, firm turf all winter, and fairways that suffer in a…