Written by Chris Bertram on Monday 2 June 2025
Our Top 100 Courses editor Chris Bertram got a privileged preview of Old Petty three months before it opens and he believes the genius of Tom Doak is going to give Cabot Highlands a second outstanding course. Earlier this year I wrote that the past 30 years have been the second Golden Age of golf course architecture, by way of introducing...
Written by Chris Bertram on Wednesday 28 May 2025
Sequels that are better than the original are not a common occurrence. But it might happen in the north-east of Scotland this summer, when Trump Scotland’s second course opens for play. After walking all 18 holes three months before it opens, I think it will at least rival the first course, if not better it – and is set to...
Written by Chris Bertram on Monday 19 May 2025
Morfontaine. Les Bordes. Puerta de Hierro. To this short list of European clubs that have two courses of the highest calibre, we will shortly be able to add Terras da Comporta. That was my first thought as I walked off the 18th green after playing the first-ever round on the brand new Torre course, designed by Sergio Garcia. The three-ball who...
Written by TG staff on Thursday 1 May 2025
How many golf courses does Donald Trump own? Here’s the full rundown of Trump resorts… The Trump Organization has put pen to paper on their latest golf resort project. Headed up by US president Donald Trump and run by his eldest sons, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr, the development will be built in Simaisma, around 45 minutes north of Qatar’s capital...
Written by TG staff on Monday 28 April 2025
Already one of the world’s most magnificent golf resorts, Trump International, Scotland is set to open a stunning new course that will take it to a whole new level… and you could be one of the first to experience it. This is an advertisement feature in association with Trump International, Scotland From legendary golf courses and world-famous Scotch whisky to historic castles...
Written by Michael Catling on Tuesday 1 April 2025
With four golf courses and some seriously unique features, Cabot Citrus Farms has to feature on your bucket list of must-plays. The team at Cabot Collection are on a bit of a roll right now. After acquiring Lofoten Links, they now have three courses in our World Top 100 list, with another – Cabot St Lucia – almost certainly set to...
Written by Alex Perry on Wednesday 19 March 2025
The PIF’s interest in Wentworth is not over, it seems, despite being warned off by the current owners. But that’s not all… LIV Golf Wentworth? That could be a real thing if Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund get their way. Mail Online have reported that PIF governor Yasir Al-Rummayan is prepared to dip into kingdom’s $900 billion sovereign wealth fund to buy...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Tuesday 18 March 2025
Golf World Top 100 unveils the best golf resorts in Great Britain and Ireland to stay-and-play in 2025. Spring has arrived, and with it the latest update to the globally respected Top 100 rankings of the best golf resorts in the United Kingdom and Ireland. If you’re planning a stay-and-play break over on this side of the Atlantic this year then be...
Written by Alex Perry on Tuesday 18 March 2025
Carnoustie Golf Links is under new ownership. For the first time in its near 200-year history, Carnoustie Golf Links is no longer a publicly-owned golf course. According to a report in The Scotsman, a short-term deal has been agreed by cash-strapped Angus Council to hand over the running of the eight-time Open Championship venue to a private consortium of financiers. The original...
Written by Michael Catling on Wednesday 12 March 2025
From Sergio Garcia’s first design to a second course at Trump International, these five best new golf courses will be worth your time, money, and air miles. There are around 3,000 golf courses in the UK, close to 9,000 in Europe, and somewhere in the region of 39,000 in the world. That’s a lot we need to get through in our...
Written by James Hogg on Monday 10 March 2025
It’s arguably the most iconic golf course in the world that doesn’t host a major – but that doesn’t make it off-limits. So how can you play TPC Sawgrass? Every year, when the Players Championship on the PGA Tour comes around, golf fans all over the globe marvel at the Stadium Course and wonder, “How can you play TPC Sawgrass?” This...
Written by Alex Perry on Monday 24 February 2025
The community around one of the oldest golf clubs in Britain has been left shocked by the vile act. It’s the latest in a lengthy spate of vandalism on the ancient golf course, and it’s easily the most deplorable. Thames Ditton and Esher Golf Club, near London, has been fending off people riding motorbikes on the course for almost a year now. But...
Written by Alex Perry on Wednesday 19 February 2025
The club is now trying to find thousands of pounds to move the green. A golf club in Wales has been told to close its 18th hole after a neighbor complained about errant balls finding their way onto his land. Anglesey County Council ruled in favor of the homeowner, and insisted Holyhead Golf Club shut their par-4 finisher until further notice...
Written by Alex Perry on Friday 14 February 2025
There’s going to be a brand new course in the Home of Golf for the first time since 2008 Controversial plans for a new golf course in St Andrews have been given the green light. Various developers have been trying to transform the site at Feddinch Mains, around two miles south of the Auld Grey Toon, since the proposals were first put...
Written by Alex Perry on Friday 31 January 2025
You’ve all gazed at the wonderful views on TV and dreamed of one day teeing up – but can you actually play Pebble Beach? And if so, how? Allow us… It’s a golf course that needs little introduction. And as you’ve opened an article titled “How can you play Pebble Beach?”, we imagine you don’t need one. Pebble Beach Golf Links,...
Written by Alex Perry on Wednesday 29 January 2025
Buckinghamshire Council is looking for new tenants of the well-established club An incredibly rare opportunity has arisen to become a tenant of a popular facility that not only boasts an 18-hole golf course, but adjoining parkland for a number of other sports. If that’s not enough, there are also martial arts facilities, as well as two padel courts if you’re looking to...
Written by Alex Perry on Tuesday 28 January 2025
Another week, another golf course threatened with closure in the UK… Members of Blaby District Council have come under fire after they proposed shutting a popular Leicestershire municipal in favour of building 800 homes and an office park. But more than 5,000 people have signed petitions to save Enderby Golf Course, a nine-hole layout run by the authority, as well as nearby...
Written by Alex Perry on Thursday 23 January 2025
The golf community has rallied after delinquents were caught causing ‘thousands of pounds’ worth of damage at the Essex club The repair work has begun after vandals destroyed several holes at a popular UK golf course. Thorndon Park in Brentwood, generally considered the best course in Essex and regularly ranked inside the top 100 in England, was targeted by hooligans on Sunday. They...
Written by Alex Perry on Thursday 23 January 2025
The 36-hole venue will instead be reverted to a private estate It was planned to be one of the finest hotel and golf resorts in the UK. Now it will be a private home once again. Tracy Park, near Bath, was home to the Tracy family for 300 years before being transformed into a 40-room hotel with two 18-hole championship golf courses...
Written by Alex Perry on Tuesday 21 January 2025
The English country club, which was shut down in 2016, will reopen after planning permission was granted to new owners A golf course will reopen after its new owners gained planning permission to build holiday lodges and a spa on the site. The Kyngs Golf & Country Club, in Market Bosworth, near Leicester, first opened in 2011 but was closed just...