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81. PARKSTONE GOLF CLUB
- Location: Poole, Dorset, England
- Founded: 1909
- Designed by: Willie Park Jr
- Green fee: £70-£150
- 23/24 ranking: Down 1
One of Bournemouth’s big-hitting trio, Parkstone is one of many UK courses that has been striving to rediscover its heathland roots in recent years. Recent improvements are now fully bedded in on this fine layout that features many attractive holes.
There are several thrilling tee-shots, such as the 3rd where you play from a causeway crossing water, and each of the short holes is a real gem.
- Parkstone review and key info
82. BLAIRGOWRIE GOLF CLUB ROSEMOUNT COURSE
- Location: Blairgowrie and Rattray, Perthshire, Scotland
- Founded: 1889
- Designed by: Alister MacKenzie and James Braid
- Green fee: £80-£120
- 23/24 ranking: Down 8
A beautiful layout that weaves its way through majestic pines. James Braid is one of the most prolific architects in the Top 100, and the Rosemount is his 1930s reworking of an earlier Alister MacKenzie design.
While finding the fairways on this tree-lined classic is more about accuracy than brute force, the reward for so doing will be the chance to play from a perfect lie.
- Blairgowrie Rosemount review and key info
83. WOKING GOLF CLUB
- Location: Woking, Surrey, England
- Founded: 1893
- Designed by: Tom Dunn
- Green fee: £100-£155
- 23/24 ranking: No change
Woking has long been regarded as architecturally significant. The short par-4 start is followed by a superb par 3 recently enhanced by the removal of a large oak and bunker improvements.
There’s no let-up in quality throughout, with the vista from the elevated 6th tee perhaps the best on the course. It is both a case study in strategic course design as well as a beautiful place to play.
84. ROYAL NORTH DEVON GOLF CLUB
- Location: Westward Ho!, Devon, England
- Founded: 1864
- Designed by: Old Tom Morris
- Green fee: £50-£130
- 23/24 ranking: Up 1
A historic, unique and characterful seaside course, it’s golf in a pure form. Set on a flat coastal plain at the edge of Westward Ho! it’s one of the country’s most natural layouts.
Covered in sea rushes and grazed upon by sheep and wild horses, it can take a couple of rounds to begin to understand the subtleties of this great links. Although RND appears to be flat there are many undulations and run-offs to deceive and perplex.
- Royal North Devon review and key info
85. WOBURN GOLF CLUB DUKE'S COURSE
- Location: Woburn, Buckinghamshire, England
- Opened: 1976
- Designed by: Charles Lawrie
- Green fee: £160-£345
- 23/24 ranking: Up 1
The Duke’s is where it all began on the Duke of Bedford’s Woburn Estate, with Charles Lawrie crafting the first of the now three courses through avenues of pine, birch and chestnut in 1976. It's a beautifully maintained, tree-lined gem of a course offering a secluded round.
Accuracy off the tee is key around the Duke's. If you don’t have it, you’ll often find yourself playing your second shot out sideways.
- Woburn Duke's review and key info
86. COUNTY SLIGO GOLF CLUB COLT CHAMPIONSHIP LINKS
- Location: Rosses Upper, County Sligo, Ireland
- Founded: 1894
- Designed by: Harry Colt and Martin Hawtree
- Green fee: €230-€250
- 23/24 ranking: Up 4
Founded in 1894, County Sligo Golf Club at Rosses Point is a superb Harry Colt design that is one of the oldest links in Ireland.
Throughout the round, the views of the Ox Mountains and the golfing test are outstanding. When you reach the distant loop of holes around the turn, you feel as though you are in a different world.
- County Sligo Championship review and key info
87. ABERDOVEY GOLF CLUB
- Location: Aberdovey, Gwynedd, Wales
- Founded: 1892
- Designed by: James Braid
- Green fee: £50-£130
- 23/24 ranking: Down 9
This traditional and enjoyable out-and-back links is tucked between beach and railway line. In just over 130 years, some of golf’s greatest architects have contributed to the layout including Herbert Fowler, James Braid and Harry Colt.
It is beautifully situated on the northern mouth of the Dovey estuary and runs in a figure-of-eight routing. The bunkering is visually impressive although perhaps the best hole, the short 12th, is excellent without.
- Aberdovey review and key info
88. FERNDOWN GOLF CLUB OLD COURSE
- Location: Ferndown, Dorset, England
- Opened: 1913
- Designed by: Harold Hilton
- Green fee: £80-£195
- 23/24 ranking: Down 1
Ferndown is a pristine heathland course with sandy fairways and heather lurking to either side of the mown surfaces. It's always beautifully conditioned, boasting exceptional playing surfaces.
With pine trees and firs also lining many of the holes, it’s an extremely attractive layout. Host to many top level competitions, Percy Alliss was professional at Ferndown and son Peter counted the club as his spiritual home.
- Ferndown Old review and key info
89. WALLASEY GOLF CLUB
- Location: Wallasey, Wirral, England
- Founded: 1891
- Designed by: Old Tom Morris, James Braid, Donald Steel
- Green fee: £85-£235
- 23/24 ranking: New entry
Over 130 years, Wallasey’s links has had design input from Old Tom Morris, Hawtree and Taylor, James Braid and Donald Steel.
More recently, the design and presentation has stepped up several gears under course manager, John McLaughlin, and is now a thrilling journey through some of the best dunes in English golf. Wallasey is an ever-improving links blessed with a brilliant topography.
- Wallasey review and key info
90. SHERWOOD FOREST GOLF CLUB
- Location: Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England
- Founded: 1895
- Designed by: Harry Colt and James Braid
- Green fee: £60-£145
- 23/24 ranking: Down 6
Sherwood Forest Golf Club dates from 1895 and they have been at the same site since 1912, playing over a course originally laid out by Harry Colt but remodelled by James Braid in the 1920s.
It's an attractive, natural heathland layout lined by heathers and birches, and it's also a very testing course where placement from the tee is essential. The greens are always fast and true.
- Sherwood Forest review and key info
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