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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 returned for the third time to play here today as one of four golfers enjoying a special SGU tee time at a discounted rate – hats off to the club for helping to support...
It’s been five years since I played the Glashedy. Last time I was here, the club was half way through an ambitious bunker revetting program and, quite frankly, the change...
I know that Top100 appraisals should only focus on the course being reviewed but, really, to write about this place without mentioning the club and the atmosphere in the...
I looked ahead to my visit to Islay last week with a degree of trepidation – would the new Machrie be so radically different to the old course that I wouldn’t like it? I’...
Five years ago, in my last review for Sandy Hills, I ended by saying “I can’t wait to return for another beating”. Well, that day arrived today and despite being truly be...
Almost exactly a year after I last visited the new Ardfin course on the isle of Jura (to read the story click here), I returned last week with a couple of other members f...
You can read as many books and browse as many websites as you like before playing at a top venue but no amount of research can ever prepare you for the feel of a place –...
One of the most pleasant golfing experiences I’ve had in the last 12 months has been found half an hour’s driving time (on a good day!) from Heathrow airport. Passing thr...
I unfortunately didn’t get the chance to play the knee-trembling first hole on the Blue course as both it and the second hole were closed for what appeared to be quite ex...
The North course at Monte Rei is a little removed from the main Algarve golf scene - situated as it is to the east of Faro, near the Spanish border - but don’t let the re...
I returned today to play in yet another Earlsferry Thistle GC John Smith/ James Braid Gents Open and – despite the heavy showers throughout the opening nine holes – loved...
I read a recent review from a Carnegie Club member on this site and thought that, although the arguments for 6-ball status were well thought out, it was maybe just a typi...
Five years ago, when I was last in Belmullet, there was talk of a new nine being laid out by American architect Jim Engh among the towering dunes adjacent to the existing...
What better way to blow away the winter blues than a round over the West Links at North Berwick on a bright and not too breezy day like today in the company of a couple o...
Fantastic – the only word to describe the front nine on the Strand course at Portstewart. If you think of playing here as a mere limber up before a round at nearby Royal...
The Ailsa as we know it has undergone several significant alterations since Willie Fernie laid out the first course at Turnberry in 1901. AN Weir (1906), Major Cecil Hutc...
Often you return to play a course that you loved first time around and you leave wondering what all the fuss had been about. Occasionally, you will be so glad you came ba...
I’ve made mention before that top tracks like Turnberry should be promoting reduced green fee packages for early bird/twilight golf so when just such a late afternoon off...
A couple of days ago, seven years after I first played here, I stepped back onto the 1st tee at Renaissance Club. Back then, in 2008, there was no clubhouse or other acco...
It felt a bit like playing the “reborn” Ailsa at Turnberry in 2016 when I returned to one of my all-time favourite courses at Royal Portrush the other day – would the rec...
