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…
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.
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…