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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.
To be honest, I was a wee bit taken aback when I saw this new entry appear in The Netherlands Top 25 chart back in January of this year. I like to keep an eye out for gol...
Golfclub De Hoge Kleij is located just outside Amersfoort, within the Utrecht Hill Ridge region, less than a 15-minute drive from the Utrechtse Golf Club de Pan. When you...
I visited The Dutch only three weeks after the KLM Open had been held on the course so I knew I was playing a new track with an impressive championship pedigree which had...
Rosendaelsche was the one course that I really missed playing when I visited some of the top courses in the Netherlands last year so I was really happy to get the chance...
I saw the partially built course at Bernardus last year when quite a few holes had still to be shaped so it was a real thrill to return last week to see all eighteen hole...
I had a look at Michlifen with shaper Russell Curtis last year – nearly all of the first 12 holes were growing in and the last 6 were still under construction – when the...
Because the course was so busy the afternoon I teed it up here, I played the back nine first – which made the more unexciting front nine appear a little insipid in compar...
Oitavos Dunes lies close to the most westerly point on the European mainland, where fairways are set out on beautiful sandy terrain close to the coast. It’s more seaside...
The course lies a couple of kilometres inland from the still rather grand Palacio Estoril Golf & Spa Hotel, where the fairways occupy a hilly site which is divided by six...
Almost exactly ten years to the day, I returned to play Duff House Royal last week. My last review mentioned “any half decent golfer should surely be capable of playing o...
I’ve followed The Nairns’s fortunes in the rankings very closely in recent years and was rather sad to see it drop out of the GB&I Top 50 last year, though it still retai...
Having earlier in the day been to the most north western course on the British mainland at Durness, I headed across the top of Scotland to tee it up at the most north eas...
It took years of galavanting on golf trips elsewhere in the Highlands before I finally decided to make the 7-hour trip from Glasgow up to Durness last week. After you’ve...
The 2018 Ryder Cup layout was the last of ten courses that I visited on a recent trip to France. It’s also the 10th Ryder Cup course that I’ve played on this side of the...
La Boulie is located on the southwestern outskirts of the capital, less than five kilometres from Le Golf National as the crow flies. So near, and yet so far away in term...
The Grand Parcours course at Saint Germain lies within a big forest on pretty flat terrain so Harry Colt certainly had his work cut out back in the early 1920s to make th...
I became the latest member of the Top 100 Team to tee it up here a couple of months ago and, on reflection, I can only think how privileged we are to have been able to pl...
I’d played earlier in the day at Fontainebleau so my visit to Courson was made on the way back to Paris, where I was teeing it up the next day. Stade Francais sports club...
Having played earlier in the day at Fontainebleau, I stopped in at Courson in the afternoon, on the way back to Paris, where the Stade Francais sports club operates a mod...
I wasn’t quite prepared for the topography at Fontainbleau. Even sitting in front of the charming old clubhouse, there’s no real hint of the roller coaster ride that lies...
