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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.
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...
The club celebrates its 150th anniversary this year, which is a great achievement for such a relatively obscure golfing outpost up at the top end of the country. If you l...
The wee 9-holer at Tarbat was a 90-minute “filler” on my way home from Reay last October and I’m really glad I ventured off the main drag at Tain to play here near the ti...
It’s always a thrill to front up at a new place where the course is still growing in, with temporary buildings everywhere, basic hard core access roads and only foundatio...
I’ll be honest, Knole Park wasn’t a course that was high on my “must play” list. Truth be told, it wasn’t on the list at all! As a Scotsman who occasionally slips across...
The course at Southport & Ainsdale hosted the 4th and 6th editions of the Ryder Cup back in the 1930s so it’s an historical golfing track, with lots of photos on the club...
I played here a few years ago during the winter, when the course was still in remarkable condition despite the time of year. Like others who have described their experien...
The club is rightly proud of its association with the Ryder Cup, dating back almost a hundred years, but it’s also moved with the times in recent years, improving the pla...
The course at Alwoodley is really where it all started for Alister MacKenzie so it’s something of a pilgrimage for admirers of the Good Doctor to make their way to Wigton...
It’s eight months since I was here and such a time lag between playing and posting a review really tells its own story. Normally after playing a highly ranked course I’m...
I suppose you subconsciously set the bar a little higher when you play a course in the World Top 100, expecting a little more than you might from other places that are “o...
I’ve seen a few photos of what this place looked like during construction so I know an awful lot had to be done to get it into the shape it’s now in. I can’t pay a higher...
The course at La Reserva took a bit of a tumble in the recent rankings reshuffle, falling out of the Spanish Top 10 and dropping ten places down the European listings so...
