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Jim McCann
I’ve reviewed courses for Top 100 Golf Courses since December 2004, an association that developed over time into me first becoming Scottish correspondent then Editor for the website. I’ve made it my business to play each and every layout in the Scottish Top 100 (as well as visiting dozens of potential chart contenders across the country) – after all, how can you possibly compare the best courses nationally if you haven’t played all of them? I make the occasional golf trip to other parts of the UK and Ireland and have been fortunate enough in the last few years to tee it up in a number of other European and African countries, courtesy of my membership of the European Golf and Travel Media Association.
Sojuela is a rather hilly layout so a buggy is probably advisable, though I did manage to prove it could be walked. Standing on the first tee, you can sense you’re in for...
The 18-hole layout at Rioja Alta is one of three good courses located close to the city of Logroño. If you were visiting the area with your clubs in tow then you’d really...
If all municipal courses in Spain are like this one in the Logroño then be prepared for an upsurge of good golfers in the years to come as the facilities are second to no...
No golf trip to the north of Spain would be complete without a visit to Seve’s old stomping ground at Pedreña, just outside Santander. Architect David Williams has been w...
It’s easy to discern the somewhat understated elegance of Neguri’s course at La Galea, where the club has been in residence since the mid-1950s. I thought the course woul...
The holes at Izki are carved from dense woodland but good fairway width means it never feels as though the trees are too restrictive. Indeed, the holes are routed such t...
I got a chance to play the course two days running, nine holes one day then nine the next day, using the routing that will eventually become the recognized front and back...
I played the Dunes course at Costa Navarino last week, immediately after the conclusion of the International Team Championships that were taking place during the 2017 PGA...
The course at Grad Otočec lies a mere hour’s drive south of the capital. After you leave the main highway, you cross a couple of old wooden bridges, taking you onto then...
The King’s course is one of Europe’s more revered golfing layouts, dating back to the 1930s and an age when the sport was played by diplomats, foreign ambassadors and oth...
The course at Diners was something of a disappointment after earlier visiting Arboretum, which is a far superior layout located half an hour’s drive away. There’s a defin...
The landscape for many kilometres around the course at Ptuj is totally flat, so it’s quite amazing to find subtle movement of any description in the terrain here. Organiz...
Driving to the course past kilometres of flat, open fields, there’s nothing to warn you of the rolling terrain that lies ahead on the Arboretum course. It’s a brilliant s...
Never have first impressions on arrival at a golf course turned out to be so wrong! The magnificence of the Theresia Chateau (which serves as the clubhouse) gives every i...
If it’s mountain golf you’re after then look no further than Gray Bear in Tale. The course is located within Bystrianska Valley on the southern side of the Low Tatras, do...
The Penati Resort stands head and shoulders above all the other golf facilities in Slovakia and such is the strength of this national golfing flagship, both its 18-hole c...
Things didn’t look great before getting out onto the course as the low-key, temporary clubhouse had more than a transient feel to it but once I arrived at the 1st tee, I...
I was looking forward to my visit to the host venue for the 2015 Slovak Amateur Open last week, especially as the views of the surrounding mountains are said to be absolu...
It was like returning to meet an old friend when I played at Lindrick last week – and I did indeed meet up with an old friend, club archivist Graham Mann – nearly three y...
It’s always a pleasure to tee it up at Gleneagles and my game on the King’s a few days ago was just that. Ahead of celebrating the King’s centenary in 2019, a lot of work...
