Top 10 Reviewer has posted between 10 and 19 reviews
Top 20 Reviewer has posted between 20 and 49 reviews
Top 50 Reviewer has posted between 50 and 99 reviews
Top 100 Reviewer has posted 100 or more reviews
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.
I don’t know why I didn’t post for Dumfries & Galloway when I played here in 2014 as I wrote a review for nearby Dumfries & County, which I played the same day. When I fo...
I played the Dunskey a couple of times before, in April 2006 and June 2007, but somehow never got round to writing a review for the course. After I realized this was the...
I played Cally Palace almost ten years ago, before it was featured on this website, and I’ve only recently noticed it was on my “reviews-to-do” list. While I was in the a...
I played at Thornhill back in July 2011, before it made an appearance on this website. It had escaped my attention that I’d never posted a review for it since then so, on...
The Swailend course was one of five new entries in the newly extended North East of Scotland listings when they were announced at the end of last year. As I hadn’t seen t...
I’d only been in this corner of the North East of Scotland once before, back in August 2008 when I played the Corbie Hill course at Fraserburgh, so when I saw that Invera...
I played here after competing in the Gents Senior Open in May 2017 but I didn’t take any notes or photographs as the course wasn’t at that time ranked in the North East d...
Almost ten years since I was last here, I pitched up at Forfar a couple of months ago on my way further north to play in Aberdeenshire. When comparing my personal Scottis...
I visited the Buddon back in August, on my way home to Glasgow, having played earlier in the day with a friend from the Czech Republic on the bizarrely renamed 1562 (form...
It’s clearly obvious the owners of the Greensgate resort have invested heavily in this leisure facility, both on and off the course, since they took over a few years ago....
I was in the Czech Republic last week for the opening of the new PGA National course outside Prague but I stayed on for a few days to check out a few other courses to the...
I was invited to the official opening of the new PGA National Czech Republic course last week, having visited a year ago when there were only nine holes in play. Remarkab...
It’s so hard to separate the fantastic overall playing experience from the course itself but the best way I can try to do that is ask myself the question I posed when I f...
The course occupies a site that’s only around 135 acres in area – they somehow also fit a driving range and pitch and putt course into it – and it’s completely surrounded...
The 18-hole Palmer layout at Fazenda Boa Vista was the last of four courses I played when I was in São Paulo last year and it was an ideal way to round off my visit befor...
Fazenda de Grama was the first of four courses I played when I was in São Paulo last year and it set the bar of golfing excellence at a very reasonable height for my golf...
I’d played the Rio Olympic course early in the morning then looked in at Itanghangá to have a look at the renovation work being done there on the way to Gávea so my round...
It was a big thrill to tee it up here last year during a whistle-stop 24-hour stay in Rio de Janeiro, on my way to São Paulo. Paulo. My colleague Brian and I were delight...
I played here at the end of a short 3-day trip to The Netherlands in October 2018, a few days after the chic new clubhouse had opened. At that time, the course didn’t hav...
I passed by Reay in August 2018, on my way from Durness to Wick, but only gave it a cursory glance from the road as I was on a tight schedule (as is ever the case) to com...
