Britain & Ireland

Experience the birthplace of golf across Britain & Ireland, where championship links courses meet centuries of heritage. From the hallowed fairways of St Andrews Old Course to the dramatic coastal splendour of Royal County Down and Ballybunion, discover world-class golf amidst breathtaking landscapes. With excellent international airport access, mild maritime climate year-round, and an unparalleled concentration of Top 100 courses within easy reach, Britain & Ireland offers the ultimate golfing pilgrimage for discerning players seeking authentic links heritage and championship-calibre challenges.

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Royal County Down (Championship)
Down, United Kingdom
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Royal County Down (Championship)
Down, United Kingdom
Royal County Down Golf Club is at Newcastle, a little holiday town nestling at the feet of the majestic Mountains of Mourne. It’s an exhilarating location for a classic links golf course...
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St Andrews Links (The Old Course)
Fife, United Kingdom
Royal Portrush Golf Club (Dunluce)
Antrim, United Kingdom
Muirfield - Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers
Lothians, United Kingdom

Trump Turnberry Resort (Ailsa)
Ayrshire & Arran, United Kingdom
Royal Dornoch Golf Club (Championship)
Highlands & Islands, United Kingdom
Royal St George's Golf Club
Kent, United Kingdom
Sunningdale Golf Club (Old)
Berkshire, United Kingdom
Ballybunion Golf Club (Old)
Kerry, Ireland

Lahinch Golf Club (Old)
Clare, Ireland
Carnoustie Golf Links (Championship)
Angus & Dundee, United Kingdom
Rosapenna Golf Resort (St Patrick's Links)
Donegal, Ireland
Sunningdale Golf Club (New)
Berkshire, United Kingdom
North Berwick Golf Club (West Links)
Lothians, United Kingdom
Kingsbarns Golf Links
Fife, United Kingdom
Ardfin
Argyll & Bute, United Kingdom
St Enodoc Golf Club (Church)
Cornwall, United Kingdom

Swinley Forest Golf Club
Berkshire, United Kingdom
Cabot Highlands Castle Stuart
Highlands & Islands, United Kingdom
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club
Lancashire, United Kingdom
Royal Porthcawl Golf Club
South Wales, United Kingdom
Cruden Bay Golf Club (Championship)
Aberdeen & Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom
Ganton Golf Club
Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Portmarnock Golf Club (Championship)
Dublin, Ireland
Trump International Golf Links - Old Course
Aberdeen & Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom
Royal Birkdale Golf Club
Merseyside, United Kingdom
St George's Hill Golf Club (Red & Blue)
Surrey, United Kingdom
Royal Aberdeen Golf Club (Balgownie)
Aberdeen & Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom
Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club
Kent, United Kingdom
Prestwick Golf Club
Ayrshire & Arran, United Kingdom
West Sussex Golf Club
Sussex, United Kingdom
Woodhall Spa Golf Club (Hotchkin)
Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Rye Golf Club (Old)
Sussex, United Kingdom
Machrihanish Golf Club (Championship)
Argyll & Bute, United Kingdom
Royal West Norfolk Golf Club (Brancaster)
Norfolk, United Kingdom
Royal Troon Golf Club (Old)
Ayrshire & Arran, United Kingdom
Royal Liverpool Golf Club
Merseyside, United Kingdom
Walton Heath Golf Club (Old)
Surrey, United Kingdom
Formby Golf Club
Merseyside, United Kingdom
Waterville Golf Links
Kerry, Ireland
Hollinwell
Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
County Louth Golf Club
Louth, Ireland
Western Gailes Golf Club
Ayrshire & Arran, United Kingdom
Alwoodley Golf Club
Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Loch Lomond Golf Club
Argyll & Bute, United Kingdom
Gleneagles (King's)
Perth & Kinross, United Kingdom
Saunton Golf Club (East)
Devon, England
Nairn Golf Club (Championship)
Highlands & Islands, United Kingdom
The Island Golf Club
Dublin, Ireland
Silloth on Solway Golf Club
Cumbria, United Kingdom

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Royal County Down (Championship)
Down, United Kingdom
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Royal County Down (Championship)
Down, United Kingdom
Royal County Down Golf Club is at Newcastle, a little holiday town nestling at the feet of the majestic Mountains of Mourne. It’s an exhilarating location for a classic links golf course...
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St Andrews Links (The Old Course)
Fife, United Kingdom
Royal Portrush Golf Club (Dunluce)
Antrim, United Kingdom
Muirfield - Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers
Lothians, United Kingdom

Trump Turnberry Resort (Ailsa)
Ayrshire & Arran, United Kingdom
Royal Dornoch Golf Club (Championship)
Highlands & Islands, United Kingdom
Royal St George's Golf Club
Kent, United Kingdom
Sunningdale Golf Club (Old)
Berkshire, United Kingdom
Ballybunion Golf Club (Old)
Kerry, Ireland

Lahinch Golf Club (Old)
Clare, Ireland
Carnoustie Golf Links (Championship)
Angus & Dundee, United Kingdom
Rosapenna Golf Resort (St Patrick's Links)
Donegal, Ireland
Sunningdale Golf Club (New)
Berkshire, United Kingdom
North Berwick Golf Club (West Links)
Lothians, United Kingdom
Kingsbarns Golf Links
Fife, United Kingdom
Ardfin
Argyll & Bute, United Kingdom
St Enodoc Golf Club (Church)
Cornwall, United Kingdom

Swinley Forest Golf Club
Berkshire, United Kingdom
Cabot Highlands Castle Stuart
Highlands & Islands, United Kingdom
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club
Lancashire, United Kingdom
Royal Porthcawl Golf Club
South Wales, United Kingdom
Cruden Bay Golf Club (Championship)
Aberdeen & Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom
Ganton Golf Club
Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Portmarnock Golf Club (Championship)
Dublin, Ireland
Trump International Golf Links - Old Course
Aberdeen & Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom
Royal Birkdale Golf Club
Merseyside, United Kingdom
St George's Hill Golf Club (Red & Blue)
Surrey, United Kingdom
Royal Aberdeen Golf Club (Balgownie)
Aberdeen & Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom
Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club
Kent, United Kingdom
Prestwick Golf Club
Ayrshire & Arran, United Kingdom
West Sussex Golf Club
Sussex, United Kingdom
Woodhall Spa Golf Club (Hotchkin)
Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Rye Golf Club (Old)
Sussex, United Kingdom
Machrihanish Golf Club (Championship)
Argyll & Bute, United Kingdom
Royal West Norfolk Golf Club (Brancaster)
Norfolk, United Kingdom
Royal Troon Golf Club (Old)
Ayrshire & Arran, United Kingdom
Royal Liverpool Golf Club
Merseyside, United Kingdom
Walton Heath Golf Club (Old)
Surrey, United Kingdom
Formby Golf Club
Merseyside, United Kingdom
Waterville Golf Links
Kerry, Ireland
Hollinwell
Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
County Louth Golf Club
Louth, Ireland
Western Gailes Golf Club
Ayrshire & Arran, United Kingdom
Alwoodley Golf Club
Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Loch Lomond Golf Club
Argyll & Bute, United Kingdom
Gleneagles (King's)
Perth & Kinross, United Kingdom
Saunton Golf Club (East)
Devon, England
Nairn Golf Club (Championship)
Highlands & Islands, United Kingdom
The Island Golf Club
Dublin, Ireland
Silloth on Solway Golf Club
Cumbria, United Kingdom

St Andrews Links (The Old Course)

Fife, United Kingdom

No other course has hosted more Opens than the Old Course at St Andrews.

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Royal Portrush Golf Club (Dunluce)

Antrim, United Kingdom

The Dunluce links at Royal Portrush Golf Club is named after the ruined Dunluce castle that overlooks the course. Seven years after the club's formation, the first professional golf tournament in Ireland, won by Sandy Herd in 1895, was staged here.

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Muirfield - Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers

Lothians, United Kingdom

Muirfield is the course of “The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers” (HCEG), the world’s oldest golf club – according to direct written evidence – formed in 1744.

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Portstewart Golf Club (Strand)

Londonderry, United Kingdom

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Portstewart Golf Club (Strand)

Londonderry, United Kingdom

Portstewart Golf Club's Strand Course is a championship links on Northern Ireland's Causeway Coast, bordered by the Atlantic and the River Bann. Originally laid out in 1908 and dramatically transformed in 1992 with seven

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Trump Turnberry Resort (Ailsa)

Ayrshire & Arran, United Kingdom

Trump Turnberry Ailsa stands on the Ayrshire coastline 82km (51 miles) south of Glasgow, commanding views across the Firth of Clyde towards the Isle of Arran and Ailsa Craig. The par-71 links hosted four Open Championships between 1977 and 2009, most famously the 1977 "Duel in the Sun" between Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus.

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Royal Dornoch Golf Club (Championship)

Highlands & Islands, United Kingdom

Royal Dornoch Golf Club is spellbinding. It seems to mesmerise amateur and professional golfers from all over the world and many make the pilgrimage to this natural links at some point in their lives.

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Royal St George's Golf Club

Kent, United Kingdom

There's nothing artificial about Royal St George’s Golf Club; there's a natural look and feel to the course that blends beautifully into its historical Sandwich surroundings.

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Sunningdale Golf Club (Old)

Berkshire, United Kingdom

The Old course at Sunningdale is one of the British Isles’ most aesthetically pleasing inland courses. Arguably, it was the first truly great golf course to be built on the magical Surrey/Berkshire sand-belt.

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Ballybunion Golf Club (Old)

Kerry, Ireland

As you drive from the historic town of Ballybunion, along the winding road to the golf club, your eyes feast upon the most spectacular links land imaginable.

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The West Kilbride Golf Club

Ayrshire & Arran, United Kingdom

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Ayrshire & Arran, United Kingdom

West Kilbride Golf Club really gets the pulse racing around the turn with a nice loop of holes.

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Lahinch Golf Club (Old)

Clare, Ireland

Lahinch Golf Club is situated next to the lovely beach of Liscannor Bay. It's an enchanting place to play golf... rugged, distinctive, unusually varied and immensely entertaining.

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Carnoustie Golf Links (Championship)

Angus & Dundee, United Kingdom

Carnoustie is a big natural seaside golf links and the Championship course is considered to be one of the most difficult in the British Isles.

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Rosapenna Golf Resort (St Patrick's Links)

Donegal, Ireland

Construction of the new St Patrick’s links at Rosapenna Hotel & Golf Resort began in April 2018, with Tom Doak’s lead associate Eric Everson working alongside Clyde Johnson and Angela Moser to complete the build during 2020.

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Sunningdale Golf Club (New)

Berkshire, United Kingdom

Taken together, the New and Old courses at Sunningdale Golf Club represent the finest 36 holes of golf in the whole of the British Isles.

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North Berwick Golf Club (West Links)

Lothians, United Kingdom

The West Links at North Berwick Golf Club is an immensely enjoyable golf course, located on the Firth of Forth with stunning sea views across to Craigleith Island and Bass Rock.

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Kingsbarns Golf Links

Fife, United Kingdom

One of the many delights of Kingsbarns Golf Links is that you can see the North Sea from virtually every part of the course.

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Ardfin

Argyll & Bute, United Kingdom

Bob Harrison's 2017 clifftop layout occupies Jura's southern peninsula, where six years of construction transformed peat and rock terrain into world-ranked golf holes. The exclusive estate rental includes 18 guest bedrooms and unlimited course access across 240 hectares overlooking the Sound of Jura. Plan your Scottish island golf holiday.

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St Enodoc Golf Club (Church)

Cornwall, United Kingdom

St Enodoc Golf Club is certainly a quixotic and rather hilly links course, set amidst towering sand dunes clad with tufts of wild sea grasses.

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Lanark Golf Club

Lanarkshire, United Kingdom

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Lanark Golf Club

Lanarkshire, United Kingdom

Founded in 1851, Lanark Golf Club is the world's oldest inland golf course and the 25th oldest club in the world. Sited 183 metres (600 feet) above sea level on ancient glacial sands in the Upper Clyde Valley, the par-70

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Swinley Forest Golf Club

Berkshire, United Kingdom

Swinley Forest Golf Club is an absolutely charming golf course sited on the famous sand belt, but it’s a club that is frozen in time, exclusive, unusual and eccentric...

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Cabot Highlands Castle Stuart

Highlands & Islands, United Kingdom

Cabot Highlands Castle Stuart now offers some serious competition to both Royal Dornoch and Nairn when it comes to attracting visiting golfers, but that's a good thing for the Highlands where the golfing bar of excellence is very high.

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Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club

Lancashire, United Kingdom

Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club is the most northerly of the English championship links courses, situated only 10 miles from Royal Birkdale.

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Royal Porthcawl Golf Club

South Wales, United Kingdom

Royal Porthcawl Golf Club is located off the beaten track, east of Swansea and west of Cardiff. Despite being the highest ranked course in Wales, it remains relatively unknown.

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Cruden Bay Golf Club (Championship)

Aberdeen & Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom

Cruden Bay is an inspirational golf course, regarded by some as quirky and considered by others as a masterpiece. Either way, this is a thrilling place to play golf because the designers used the original lie of the land to fantastic effect.

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Ganton Golf Club

Yorkshire, United Kingdom

This sandy, gently undulating site was once a North Sea inlet. Consequently, Ganton Golf Club has all the characteristics of a links and a heathland course.

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Portmarnock Golf Club (Championship)

Dublin, Ireland

”I know of no greater finish in the world than that of the last five holes at Portmarnock Golf Club”, said Bernard Darwin

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Trump International Golf Links - Old Course

Aberdeen & Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom

Championship links golf routed through spectacular dunes on Scotland's North Sea coast. Martin Hawtree's 2012 design stretches 7,428 yards across the Menie Estate at Balmedie, hosting the DP World Tour's Scottish Championship from 2025. Located 16km north of Aberdeen, with the New Course adjacent.

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Royal Birkdale Golf Club

Merseyside, United Kingdom

Royal Birkdale Golf Club stands as one of England's finest links courses, where ten Open's have crowned the Champion Golfer of the Year. Located in Southport's towering dunes, this fair yet challenging course rewards precision and strategy. Your golf holiday awaits at this iconic venue with its distinctive Art Deco clubhouse.

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St George's Hill Golf Club (Red & Blue)

Surrey, United Kingdom

The spectacular golfing panorama from the front of the St George's Hill clubhouse is a view that grabs you and makes your heart pound...

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Royal Aberdeen Golf Club (Balgownie)

Aberdeen & Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom

The Balgownie at Royal Aberdeen Golf Club is a traditional out and back links course running along the shore of the North Sea and it has one of the finest first nine holes in golf.

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Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club

Kent, United Kingdom

Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club, or Deal as it is somtimes called, is an absolute brute of a links course. Its back nine, or rather the last seven holes, are relentless.

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Prestwick Golf Club

Ayrshire & Arran, United Kingdom

The course at Prestwick Golf Club is a traditional monument, an authentic affair with a layout of holes that snake to and fro through rugged dunes and rippled fairways.

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West Sussex Golf Club

Sussex, United Kingdom

West Sussex Golf Club is one of our favourite inland courses. It is sheer delight to play golf on this charming sandy outcrop of heathland.

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Woodhall Spa Golf Club (Hotchkin)

Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

Woodhall Spa Golf Club is an oasis in the heart of Lincolnshire, set amongst glorious pine, birch and broom, this heathland golf course is an absolute delight to play.

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Rye Golf Club (Old)

Sussex, United Kingdom

Rye Golf Club was founded in 1894 and was the inaugural design of 25-year-old Harry Colt. With a measly par of 68, and a layout that measures over 6,300 yards, Rye has to be one of the toughest courses in Britain.

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Machrihanish Golf Club (Championship)

Argyll & Bute, United Kingdom

Machrihanish Golf Club must be one of the most natural, romantic and enjoyable places to play golf in the whole of the British Isles. It’s not long, but it's sheer fun...

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Royal West Norfolk Golf Club (Brancaster)

Norfolk, United Kingdom

Check the tide times before you plan your trip to Royal West Norfolk Golf Club, the course plays on a narrow strip of links-land which gets cut off at high tide, turning it into an island.

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Royal Troon Golf Club (Old)

Ayrshire & Arran, United Kingdom

Royal Troon is a traditional out and back links course on the current Open Rota. Host of the 152nd Open Championship, it is best known for the short par 3 Postage Stamp and strategic 11th, named Railway.

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Royal Liverpool Golf Club

Merseyside, United Kingdom

Without doubt, Royal Liverpool Golf Club is a tough links. Only six holes are in the dunes – otherwise there is little protection from the ever-changing Hoylake wind.

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Walton Heath Golf Club (Old)

Surrey, United Kingdom

Walton Heath Golf Club is where links golf meets inland golf. There is no salty whiff of sea air, but the course plays and feels like a seaside links.

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Formby Golf Club

Merseyside, United Kingdom

Formby is the prettiest of the eight top-notch links courses located between the seaside town of St Annes and the city of Liverpool. It is bordered on three sides by pine trees, giving the links a decidedly softer, heathland feel.

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Waterville Golf Links

Kerry, Ireland

Waterville Golf Links plays on a promontory surrounded by the sea. It’s a stunning, remote location...

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Hollinwell

Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

“After being too long away I lately went back to Hollinwell, which, as all the golfing world knows, or ought to know, is the course of the Notts Golf Club.”

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County Louth Golf Club

Louth, Ireland

The approach road to the links of County Louth Golf Club, or Baltray as it is better known, named after the local fishing village, is especially uplifting.

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Western Gailes Golf Club

Ayrshire & Arran, United Kingdom

The holes at Western Gailes Golf Club are wonderfully varied. The fairways undulate gently, interrupted occasionally by three meandering burns...

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Alwoodley Golf Club

Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Alwoodley Golf Club in North Leeds is Alister MacKenzie's first ever golf course design, laid out in 1907 on Wigton Moor. This heathland gem features springy fairways, naturalistic bunkers, and large undulating greens shaped in collaboration with Harry Colt — a living laboratory for the architectural principles MacKenzie refined across a lifetime.

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Loch Lomond Golf Club

Argyll & Bute, United Kingdom

Loch Lomond Golf Club is set in more than 600 acres of sheltered seclusion, sandwiched between the mountains and the historic lochside.

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Gleneagles (King's)

Perth & Kinross, United Kingdom

Gleneagles is the perfect setting for a game of golf and the King’s course is surely the best moorland track in the world.

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Saunton Golf Club (East)

Devon, England

If there is a need for another seaside Open Championship venue, then the East course at Saunton Golf Club might be a worthy candidate.

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Nairn Golf Club (Championship)

Highlands & Islands, United Kingdom

Championship links on Moray Firth coastline, founded 1887 with contributions from Old Tom Morris and James Braid. Host venue for Walker Cup 1999, Curtis Cup 2012, and Amateur Championships. Highland location offers year-round play with exceptional greens and traditional out-and-back routing alongside Scottish beaches.

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The Island Golf Club

Dublin, Ireland

The Island Golf Club is a no-frills golf course. There is nothing manicured and it’s all very harmonious and in tune with its surroundings.

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Silloth on Solway Golf Club

Cumbria, United Kingdom

It’s well worth the time (and the money) to get to Silloth on Solway Golf Club and once you get here, you won’t want to leave...

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Royal County Down (Championship)

Royal County Down (Championship)

St Andrews Links (The Old Course)

Royal Portrush Golf Club (Dunluce)

Muirfield - Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers

Trump Turnberry Resort (Ailsa)

Royal Dornoch Golf Club (Championship)

Royal St George's Golf Club

Sunningdale Golf Club (Old)

Ballybunion Golf Club (Old)

Lahinch Golf Club (Old)

Carnoustie Golf Links (Championship)

Rosapenna Golf Resort (St Patrick's Links)

Sunningdale Golf Club (New)

North Berwick Golf Club (West Links)

Kingsbarns Golf Links

Ardfin

St Enodoc Golf Club (Church)

Swinley Forest Golf Club

Cabot Highlands Castle Stuart

Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club

Royal Porthcawl Golf Club

Cruden Bay Golf Club (Championship)

Ganton Golf Club

Portmarnock Golf Club (Championship)

Trump International Golf Links - Old Course

Royal Birkdale Golf Club

St George's Hill Golf Club (Red & Blue)

Royal Aberdeen Golf Club (Balgownie)

Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club

Prestwick Golf Club

West Sussex Golf Club

Woodhall Spa Golf Club (Hotchkin)

Rye Golf Club (Old)

Machrihanish Golf Club (Championship)

Royal West Norfolk Golf Club (Brancaster)

Royal Troon Golf Club (Old)

Royal Liverpool Golf Club

Walton Heath Golf Club (Old)

Formby Golf Club

Waterville Golf Links

Hollinwell

County Louth Golf Club

Western Gailes Golf Club

Alwoodley Golf Club

Loch Lomond Golf Club

Gleneagles (King's)

Saunton Golf Club (East)

Nairn Golf Club (Championship)

The Island Golf Club

Silloth on Solway Golf Club

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Royal County Down (Championship)

Royal County Down (Championship)

St Andrews Links (The Old Course)

Royal Portrush Golf Club (Dunluce)

Muirfield - Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers

Trump Turnberry Resort (Ailsa)

Royal Dornoch Golf Club (Championship)

Royal St George's Golf Club

Sunningdale Golf Club (Old)

Ballybunion Golf Club (Old)

Lahinch Golf Club (Old)

Carnoustie Golf Links (Championship)

Rosapenna Golf Resort (St Patrick's Links)

Sunningdale Golf Club (New)

North Berwick Golf Club (West Links)

Kingsbarns Golf Links

Ardfin

St Enodoc Golf Club (Church)

Swinley Forest Golf Club

Cabot Highlands Castle Stuart

Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club

Royal Porthcawl Golf Club

Cruden Bay Golf Club (Championship)

Ganton Golf Club

Portmarnock Golf Club (Championship)