Top 100 Golf Courses - Worldwide
Bethpage (Black)
51st
The Bethpage Black course really is as difficult and penal as the high slope rating suggests. It’s not for the faint hearted.
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Cape Wickham
52nd
It’s said that respected author Darius Oliver was instrumental in convincing businessman Duncan Andrews to develop the remote Cape Wickham site...
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Oakland Hills (South)
53rd
With many holes lined by trees, six US Opens and one Ryder Cup under its belt, the South course at Oakland Hills Country Club should be treated with respect.
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Royal Lytham & St Annes
54th
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club is the most northerly of the English championship links courses, situated only 10 miles from Royal Birkdale.
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Ballyneal
55th
Ballyneal sounds Irish so it’s fitting that this is a links course albeit an inland links. The dream of Rupert and Jim O’Neal is located in the middle of a huge Colorado dunescape, and even the address – Holyoke – echoes that of a current Open Championship links venue.
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Kiawah Island Resort (Ocean)
56th
According to Pete Dye, "There’s no other golf course in the Northern Hemisphere that has as many seaside holes" as the Ocean course at Kiawah Island.
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Royal Aberdeen (Balgownie)
57th
The Balgownie at Royal Aberdeen Golf Club is a traditional out and back links course running along the shore of the North Sea and it has one of the finest first nine holes in golf.
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St George's Golf & Country Club - Ontario
58th
With tight twisting fairways and undulating terrain, St George’s Golf & Country Club is a man and woman-sized test of golf and five-time host to the Canadian Open.
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Diamante (Dunes)
59th
The spectacular dune landscape found on the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula is where American developer Ken Jowdy decided to locate his latest project, Diamante Cabo San Lucas...
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Trump International Golf Links - Scotland
60th
Occupying a three-mile stretch of North Sea coastline, Trump International Golf Links is the latest American-inspired, high profile course to open in Scotland since the start of the new millennium.
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