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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.
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...
I mentioned to a French journalist who I was with a few weeks before my trip to France that I was playing Les Aisses and his eyes lit up. He then said he was surprised I...
I last played at Les Bordes almost eleven years ago (so a lot has happened since those relatively carefree, innocent days when I was still in my late forties) and I never...
Chantilly was the first stop on a recent 6-day golf trip and it set a very high standard for the week ahead. I arrived later than expected in the morning due to problems...
Bonnyton’s a great little moorland track, perched high above Glasgow on the south side of the city. It’s one of a very select number of Scottish layouts designed by Alist...
I remember reading the story about Sand Valley’s painful birth in one of Paul Daley’s “Golf Architecture: A Worldwide Perspective” books four or five years ago and wonder...
The course at Postolowo was the last of four layouts in the Gdansk region that I played recently and for me it was the best. It gets off to a solid start on the opening t...
The last time I played a course with such a dazzling array of flowering shrubs, bushes and trees around the tee boxes and lining the fairways was at Tecina in La Gomera....
The Mazury course was a new entry in the Top 10 for Poland when it was re-ranked six months ago so I thought it was worth a visit as I was staying not too far away on a r...
After visiting a couple of Royal courses and an impressive 36-hole venue during a short visit to Flanders, I didn’t really expect too much from a little 9-hole track buil...
What a lovely location for a golf course – or two courses, actually, as Oudenaarde boasts two 18-hole layouts, the Kasteel and the Anker. Situated in the heart of the Fle...
I’m surprised there have only ever been three reviews for this course. It’s easily one of the best courses in Europe and I don’t understand why more people haven’t writte...
The Tom Simpson layout at Royal Antwerp dates back more than a hundred years to when Willie Park Jnr first set out a course for the club after it moved to its present loc...
Having been to Oporto, Miramar and Estoril in the past to soak up the atmosphere at these old golf clubs, Lisbon Sports Club was the last of the four pillars of Portugues...
