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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.
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...
Canyamel was the first course I visited on my trip to Mallorca last week and it set the bar at a decent level when comparing it against the other layouts that followed. I...
There’s a tangibly different vibe to Son Servera, largely due to it being the only members’ golf club on the island. You can sense it’s run for the golfers who frequent i...
Venue for five editions of the Mallorca Classic on the European Tour between 2003 and 2007, Pula wasn’t always a championship standard venue – certainly not in the eyes o...
I wasn’t aware the course hosted the Mallorca Golf Open here in October last year, the first time in a decade that a European Tour event had been staged on the island. To...
Andratx is one of five Mallorcan courses featured in The Pocket Guide to Golf Courses in Spain & Portugal so I knew it had to be worth a look. The authors of that publica...
Vall d’Or is a little bit removed from the two main golf areas (in the northeast and southwest) of Mallorca so it’s a good 1-hr drive to get here from Palma city centre....
I discovered an hour before arriving at Golf Park Mallorca Puntiro that T Golf had purchased the facility just the day before – and not before time, I might add! As the t...
My round on the South course was played in the afternoon, after tackling the North in the morning followed by lunch. A European Top 100-ranked layout like the North isn’t...
This was the big surprise of my recent 5-day visit to Madrid. I’ve played quite a few Robert von Hagge designs in France and Spain so I really should have been aware of w...
Club de Campo was the first of eight courses I played on a whirlwind 5-day visit to the Spanish capital a couple of weeks ago. I was particularly pleased that the trip wa...
I was lucky enough to play the course from the 1st tee during a media event last month, when participants were involved in a shotgun start. This of course gave me the cha...
The South course was one of more than a dozen layouts I saw on a week-long visit to the Algarve last week and I’m glad I didn’t get here until late in my itinerary – the...
There’s a totally different vibe playing the Laranjal compared to either the South or the North. For a start, it’s located a 10-minute drive away from the other two layou...
I really liked San Lorenzo from the minute I arrived in the car park. I expected to find a big fancy clubhouse but came across a very modest, wooden building with a “live...
The Pines and Corks nines I played at Pinheiros Altos were easily the best eighteen holes on the property. By comparison, the original Olives nine occupies a very flat po...
It’s nearly six years since I last played at the place where golf first got a foothold in The Algarve back in the mid-1960s. I was here for a few days before and during t...
