Top 100 Golf Courses - Worldwide
Royal Portrush (Dunluce)
11th
The Dunluce links at Royal Portrush Golf Club is named after the ruined Dunluce castle that overlooks the course. Seven years after the club's formation, the first professional golf tournament in Ireland, won by Sandy Herd in 1895, was staged here.
Royal Dornoch (Championship)
12th
Royal Dornoch Golf Club is spellbinding. It seems to mesmerise amateur and professional golfers from all over the world and many make the pilgrimage to this natural links at some point in their lives.
Merion (East)
13th
When Merion Golf Club was founded in 1896, Philadelphians were more likely to play cricket than golf. They even sent touring cricket teams to England!
Muirfield
14th
Muirfield is the course of “The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers” (HCEG), the world’s oldest golf club – according to direct written evidence – formed in 1744.
Augusta National
15th
Augusta National Golf Club is one of the most exclusive clubs in the world and was designed by the world’s greatest golfer, who teamed up with the world’s greatest architect.
Kingston Heath
16th
Kingston Heath Golf Club pushes Royal Melbourne – and in some opinions exceeds it – as the premier course in Australian golf.
Pebble Beach
17th
Cypress Point is the course you can’t play at Pebble Beach, but thankfully Pebble Beach Golf Links is one you can.
Crystal Downs
18th
Crystal Downs Country Club is set delightfully on a headland that is wedged between Lake Michigan and Crystal Lake in America’s Midwest. The course was designed by Alister MacKenzie and supervised by Perry Maxwell.
Ballybunion (Old)
19th
As you drive from the historic town of Ballybunion, along the winding road to the golf club, your eyes feast upon the most spectacular links land imaginable.
Fishers Island
20th
Fishers Island Club is set romantically on a narrow island that is a mere two miles wide and eight miles long.
World Top 100 Leaderboard
Rank | Name | Courses Played |
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1 | Bob McCoy |
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2 | David Davis |
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= | Fergal O'Leary |
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4 | Paul Rudovsky |
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= | Joseph Andriole |
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6 | David Forgan |
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7 | John Cornish |
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8 | James Gold |
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9 | Jeffrey M |
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10 | Yuji Nakamura |
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