Argyll & Bute

Argyll & Bute occupies a sweeping stretch of Scotland's western seaboard — from the Kintyre Peninsula down to the Hebridean islands of Islay and Jura — and its golf heritage is as rugged and romantic as the landscape itself. This is a region where courses have been carved from Atlantic dunes, clifftop peatland and remote island machair, producing links experiences that are genuinely unlike anything found elsewhere in Britain. The ranking was updated in March 2026.