Forest of Arden introduces buggies with sat-nav for players lacking direction

Last weekend China announced the closure of 111 courses following a multi-year campaign to protect land and water resources. An additional 18 courses were ordered to return land and 47 clubs were told to halt construction. Among these course closures was Stone Forest's extraordinarily dramatic Leaders Peak.

In June, our correspondent in France set up a week-long tour of top courses in and around Paris, with a cast list that included half the national Top 10. Here’s how events unfolded when we set out to play this stellar roster of French layouts…

Our Best in State biennial re-ranking exercise for the USA continues unabated, with the revision now focusing on Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin in the eastern half of the Midwest. 18 courses in this division also claim a slot within our US Top 100.

When we last re-ranked Brazilian courses, just before the start of the Olympics, the Rio 2016 Olympic Golf Course was listed at number 2 and it remains in the runner-up position in this revised edition of the Top 20 chart.

Our Best in State biennial re-ranking process for the United States of America continues at pace as we reach the western half of the Midwest, embracing the Farm Belt states of Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota.

Our Best in State biennial re-ranking exercise for the United States of America reaches the halfway stage with this news release for the eight South Atlantic states of Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia.

The tandem of Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore are among the world's finest golf course creators. The duo have reinvented classical golf architecture and delivered some of the finest modern designs...

The Pinehurst area in the Sandhills of North Carolina offers a number of high-class golf courses at a reasonable price. Richard Smith and his wife Ruth sample five of the best.

Portugal is still one of Europe’s top golfing destinations and we’ve published features relating to golf in both the north and the south of the nation. We now look at what’s in between, around the coastal capital of Lisbon.