41-50 Top 100 Golf Courses UK & Ireland 2023/24
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41. THE BERKSHIRE GOLF CLUB RED COURSE
Location: Ascot, Berkshire, England
Founded: 1928
Designed by: Herbert Fowler
Green fee: £145-£300
23/24 ranking: Up 1
The Red Course is an example of one of the very best heathland golf courses in the land and opened for play in the late 1920s. It has an unusual and intoxicating configuration consisting of six of each par.
Only at the 11th and 12th do you play the same par consecutively, and this constant variety is more than matched by the design characteristics of the individual holes themselves.
- The Berkshire Red review and key info
42. FORMBY GOLF CLUB
Location: Formby, Merseyside, England
Founded: 1884
Designed by: Willie Park Jr, James Braid and Harry Colt
Green fee: £185-£260
23/24 ranking: Down 1
On a coastline packed with top-drawer golf, Formby is one of the very best with the bonus that it contains elements of both links and heathland.
Founded in 1884, this forward-thinking club is also future-proofing its original course which was redesigned by Willie Park Junior in the early 20th-century before further Braid, Colt and Donald Steel changes.
43. PRESTWICK GOLF CLUB
Location: Prestwick, Ayrshire, Scotland
Founded: 1851
Designed by: Old Tom Morris
Green fee: £195-£345
23/24 ranking: Up 1
Much has changed at Prestwick since it hosted the first of its 24 Opens in 1860, but its wonderfully, rumpled terrain still provides a tangible link with the challenge those early Open competitors faced.
It is both historically significant yet still hugely relevant and great fun. That is Prestwick’s charm.
- Prestwick review and key info
44. ROSAPENNA HOTEL AND GOLF RESORT SANDY HILLS COURSE
Location: Rosapenna, Donegal, Ireland
Founded: 2003
Designed by: Pat Ruddy
Green fee: €125-€150
23/24 ranking: Up 2
The Pat Ruddy designed Sandy Hills Course at Rosapenna opened in 2003 but has a feel of a layout that has existed much longer.
Carved through the dunes, it’s a supremely natural layout and a great example of sympathetic modern course design. It’s a course of nuances and subtlety with green complexes featuring some challenging slopes and falloffs.
- Rosapenna Sandy Hills review and key info
45. ROYAL CINQUE PORTS GOLF CLUB
Location: Deal, Kent, England
Founded: 1892
Designed by: Harry Hunter and James Braid
Green fee: £125-£210
23/24 ranking: Up 8
This two-time Open venue follows a broadly out-and-back routing with one or two deviations, including an Old Course-style loop at the far end.
The outward nine hugs the sea wall closely in places, and the course has benefitted hugely from Martin Ebert’s judicious and selective design touch in recent years.
- Royal Cinque Ports review and key info
46. WESTERN GAILES GOLF CLUB
Location: Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland
Founded: 1897
Designed by: Fred Morris and Fred Hawtree
Green fee: £125-£280
23/24 ranking: Up 1
Set on a sliver of linksland, Western Gailes is the epitome of a true Scottish links. This venerable old layout's Firth of Clyde setting brings splendid views across to Arran as the course heads first north, then south for nine shoreside holes and finally north again.
There are mischievously placed natural-style bunkers plus several inconveniently located burns to negotiate along the way.
- Western Gailes review and key info
47. TRUMP INTERNATIONAL GOLF LINKS DOONBEG
Location: Doonbeg, County Clare, Ireland
Founded: 2002
Designed by: Greg Norman
Green fee: €75-€375
23/24 ranking: Down 4
Set amidst the incredible dunes overlooking Doughmore Bay in County Clare, Greg Norman’s brilliant layout at Doonbeg has been further enhanced by Martin Hawtree since the Trump Organisation took over in 2014.
It’s a spectacular setting for golf and this fabulous layout makes the very most of the stunning surroundings. It’s a modern classic.
- Trump Doonbeg review and key info
48. TRALEE GOLF CLUB
Location: Barrow West, County Kerry, Ireland
Founded: 1984
Designed by: Arnold Palmer
Green fee: €180-€275
23/24 ranking: No change
Sea, sand and mountains form the gorgeous backdrop to Arnold Palmer’s magical creation.
The striking 2nd doglegs sharply around the cliffs, and the par-3 3rd hugs the rocky shoreline precariously but things really ramp up coming home, with the spectacular 12th and 13th followed by a stirring three-hole shoreside run from 15.
49. ROYAL ST DAVID'S GOLF CLUB
Location: Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales
Founded: 1894
Designed by: Harold Finch-Hatton and William Henry More
Green fee: £60-£145
23/24 ranking: Down 4
This tough, old-school links has hosted many important championships and sits overlooked by the brooding Harlech Castle.
It is separated from the beach by towering dunes which may provide some protection from the wind, but don’t bank on it! A strong but very fair links defined by some stretching par 4s - easily one of the very best golf courses in Wales.
- Royal St David's review and key info
50. GLENEAGLES GOLF RESORT QUEEN'S COURSE
Location: Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland
Founded: 1917
Designed by: James Braid
Green fee: £80-£450
23/24 ranking: Up 8
It may be a relatively short track by modern standards, but the Queen’s delivers a complete test of golf to put it up there with some of the very best golf courses in Scotland.
It’s long been a favourite at Gleneagles and recent works have greatly enhanced what was already a tremendous course in terms of both aesthetics and playability. Set on the high ground of the Gleneagles Estate, the views are phenomenal.
- Gleneagles Queen's review and key info