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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 Old course (or Arboretum as it’s now called) at Royal Belgium is a Tom Simpson track of some repute but, like a few other of the architect’s courses in Belgium, it co...
The National turned out to be the biggest surprise of my recent trip to Belgium. I thought in advance that it might struggle to hold its own against the esteemed “Royals”...
I was here four years ago during a short press trip to the Flanders region and thought very highly of the layout so I’m not going to repeat what I wrote then. Instead, I’...
The Royal Sart Tilman course is a tree-lined Tom Simpson design from the late 1930s which just oozes class from first tee to final green, with golfers taken on a very ent...
I played what I thought was a rather run of the mill 4.0 baller at Royal Waterloo in the morning before fronting up at Royal Fagnes (Spa, to you and me) in the afternoon...
Royal Waterloo is a hundred years old next year but the club moved to its present location in the early 1960s. Fred Hawtree laid out the original holes then over the year...
I was here four years ago during a media visit when the Belgian Sixes event was taking place. To be honest, on that occasion I got as far as meeting up with a few friends...
I’d played the Tom Simpson course at Royal Antwerp before during a media trip four years ago so I pretty much knew what was in store when I teed it up here – of course, I...
I’ve had the Championship course at Royal Zoute on my hit list for a long time now. It’s a course that once occupied a Top 10 position in the Continental European ranking...
The Links at Royal Ostend got my recent Belgian trip off to a brilliant start, even though it all began in a bit of a rush as our 3-ball group was late arriving for our t...
Marc Tremel, the club’s former director of golf, has moved back to France since I was last here in 2015 and he’s been replaced by Stéphane Talbot, a man of great experien...
I returned here last week after six and a half years but unfortunately missed out on a return match against director of golf Guy Maxwell who was back in Scotland on holid...
The clubhouse had yet to be built when I was last here six years ago and quite a lot has happened since then, including the departure of larger-than-life director of golf...
The Palmeraie resort had 27 holes in play when I was last here in 2012 but they’ve now relinquished the newest nine holes, contracting the operation to the original 18-ho...
I was so obsessed with the absurdly unique “Moroccan garden” water features when I last played here ten years ago that I missed the other modern art sculptures dotted aro...
I returned to Amelkis last week, just over 10 years since I was last here. This time I played the Blue and Red nines, which comprise the preferred 18-hole layout. All the...
I don’t quite understand the lack of love for The Nairn from influential raters and rankers. I’m also not so sure about the level of “widespread displeasure” with the rec...
I was unfortunate with the weather when I visited Son Gual two weeks ago as it was what they call in Ireland a “soft morning” with light rain falling until lunchtime. It...
T Golf Calvia was the big surprise of my recent trip to Mallorca. I’d read beforehand it was a John Harris design (opening in 1978, the year after he died) so I thought i...
In 2019, the season-ending tournament on the European Challenge Tour’s “Road to Mallorca” was held at Alcanada and the Grand Final event will be contested here in Novembe...
