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The Balgove is perhaps best described as a miniature version of the Strathtyrum.
The Strathtyrum links is the first course at St. Andrews we come to that the serious golfer may give a wide berth to.
Wakefield Golf Club, founded in 1891, is an established, traditional parkland layout in West Yorkshire with an excellent set of short holes.
Founded in 1914 Wheatley Golf Club, on the outskirts of Doncaster, is one of Yorkshire’s better courses but often doesn’t get the recognition it deserves.
Newburgh-on-Ythan is very much a tale of two halves, but each one is worth listening to.
Cruden Bay is a golf course that dances to its own beat.
The St. Olaf, a par-32 nine-hole relief course, is well worthy of mention when discussing Cruden Bay.
Firstly, a confession. We only added Inverallochy to our recent Scotland trip itinerary because of its close proximity to Fraserburgh, located just a few miles down the coast.
Fraserburgh Golf Club, the seventh oldest in the World, delivers no frills, classic links golf on a very impressive scale.
The Craigewan Links at Peterhead is set mostly amongst splendid duneland and fully encapsulates what golfing by the sea in Scotland is all about.
Walton Heath, a club with a rich history and distinguished membership, is an oasis of pure heathland golf situated a mere 20 miles outside the city of London.
Situated a short drive from the town of Banbury this delightful fast running course was a joy to play in mid-May when the plentiful gorse was in full canary-yellow bloom.
North Hants, home of the elite amateur Hampshire Hog golf tournament, is one of the several ‘second tier’ courses situated on the notorious sandbelt to the South-West of London.
The Purdis Heath layout at Ipswich Golf Club is an intimate heathland course played over rolling terrain and through beautiful, tranquil woodland in the heart of Suffolk.
Great Yarmouth & Caister was founded in 1882 making it the oldest golf club in Norfolk. It’s also one of the best.
The Martello course at Felixstowe Ferry Golf Club is the only links course in Suffolk and one of only a handful in East Anglia.
Golf courses such as Tenby are very few and far between. For me they capture the absolute essence of links golf.
The links at Ashburnham contains some wonderful golf holes on a sandy tract of land that has played host to many notable championships.
On a recent drive from West Yorkshire to South Wales we decided to jump off the M5 and play a quick round at the highly unusual Painswick Golf Club. It proved to be one of the best decisions we’ve made.
Alwoodley Golf Club is undoubtedly one of Great Britain & Ireland’s leading lights when it comes to inland golf.
There is uniqueness about Bude & North Cornwall that lovers of true and natural links golf will find not only alluring but extremely exciting.
The Channel Course is virtually the same as the main course but in miniature.
Minehead and West Somerset is a true links golf course set against the rugged backdrop of the Brendon Hills with captivating sea views all the way along the impressive back-nine.
At the time of writing The Grove is one of the best modern inland golf courses I have had the pleasure to play.
Sandy Lodge is a course with tight, firm fairways and lots of interest throughout its 18 holes.
A round at Sandiway, on a glorious spring afternoon, completed my playing of all the recognised top inland golf courses in Cheshire.
A quick afternoon dash around Dunham Forest in mid-March, following a meeting in Manchester earlier in the day, provided a very enjoyable couple of hours.
I’ve never known an inland golf course play as firm and fast in March as Thetford did on my first ever visit to this lovely Norfolk venue.
Royal Worlington & Newmarket at Mildenhall is a golf course that I have wanted to visit for a long time.
I’ve played all 27 holes at Forest Pines on a number of occasions.
I arrived at Luffenham Heath Golf Club on a beautifully bright and mild March morning after a pleasant and stress-free two hour drive.
Charnwood Forest is one the most interesting, natural and best nine-holers I have played.
Warkworth is a delightful Old Tom Morris nine-holer with a lovely ‘linksy’ feel to it.
It may have only been February when I played Dunstanburgh Castle but I strongly suspect this will be the biggest surprise of 2015. What a gem of a links course.
Bamburgh Castle most definitely falls into the ‘odd sock drawer’ of golf courses… and that’s a good thing!
Royal West Norfolk Golf Club, often referred to as Brancaster, is a quirky course that time has forgotten about. And it’s much the better for that.
I was really impressed following a recent visit to Southerndown Golf Club.
There’s so much good stuff to talk about at Pyle and Kenfig it’s not hard to see why it’s regarded as one of the best courses in Wales and a personal favourite of many.
If you’ve ever wondered what that lovely piece of linksland is just off junction 42 of the M4 motorway in South Wales I can let you know that it’s the delightful Swansea Bay Golf Club.
The Celtic Manor Resort has no less than three golf courses.
Rhyl is a cracking little nine-hole links course on the North Wales coast.
Prestatyn is a fine championship links course on the North Wales coast and is easy to see why it’s regularly selected for the country’s top events.
When it comes to links golf Southport is arguably the United Kingdom’s number one location, almost unquestionably England’s and without doubt a real hot spot.
If you like golf courses with great views then you will love Saddleworth Golf Club traversing the Lancashire-Yorkshire border.
Swinley Forest is a delectably English golf club set in the heart of the Berkshire sand-belt on a secluded parcel of land boasting beautiful heather, gorse and pines.
A full day of golf (and lunch) at The Berkshire is one of life’s little luxuries and definitely worth saving up for.
Camberley Heath is a golf course that I think you will be hearing a lot more about over the coming years.
Bearwood Lakes is an excellent parkland course that belies its age.
Shiskine Golf (& Tennis) Club, set in a truly stunning location at Blackwaterfoot on the Isle of Arran, may only have 12 holes but there is nothing lacking in terms of the enjoyment or test of golf that is presented when playing this wonderfully captivating links.
There are over a dozen fine links golf courses on the Ayrshire Coast. The Irvine Golf Club stands proudly as one of the best but perhaps the most unheralded.
Playing at The Machrihanish Golf Club is perhaps not as romantic a prospect as it was several years ago. None-the-less it’s a fabulous golfing experience.
Located within touching distance of the Atlantic Ocean on the Kintyre Peninsula Machrihanish Dunes is the first true links course to open on Scotland’s west coast in over one hundred years.
A round of golf at Traigh is a unique Scottish golf experience.
The setting and location for the Isle of Skye Golf Club at Sconser could possibly be the best I have ever seen.
The Isle of Harris Golf Club at Scarista is a cracking little nine-hole golf course that delivers a true links experience.
Glencruitten is a fascinating golf course I whole-heartedly recommend anyone should play.
It’s not every day you get to play the oldest golf course in the world!
Dalmally is a picturesque nine-hole course in a lovely setting just off the A85 Perth to Oban road.
Woburn can boast no less than three golf courses that all regularly feature in the various top 100 rankings.
The Bracken course provides a contrasting challenge to the Hotchkin. On this more modern layout you will find large undulating greens and water hazards the main obstacles to putting a good score together.
The East Coast of England, with the exception of East Anglia, is a fairly barren place for links golf.
Royal Ashdown Forest is home to two fine golf courses; the Old and the West.
Littlehampton has one of the best starts to any links course I have played. The opening two holes really are of the highest order.
Hayling is an extremely fast running golf course played over pure linksland.
Broadstone is a wonderful golf course on a truly amazing property in an area of the country that is quickly establishing itself as a region for top class golf.
Ashridge is a well-established golf course played through beautifully coloured woodland and rolling terrain.
Little Aston is a traditional golf club that exudes excellence both on and off the course.
Beau Desert is like a good book, a real page turner. After finishing each hole you just can't wait to play the next.
Blackwell is a lovely mature parkland course with undulating terrain, tricky greens and some fine holes that require much thought and intelligence.
Worksop is a lovely fast running woodland course with sandy fairways and tricky greens.
A recent trip to compete in the annual Gold Medal, a 36 hole open competition, at Frilford Heath Golf Club consisted the playing of their Green and Red courses.
After playing 36 holes in an open competition at Frilford Heath I decided to quickly dash across the Oxfordshire countryside to Huntercombe for an evening round rather than sit in what mostly likely would have been rush hour traffic on the M40.
They say you only get one chance to make a first impression and I was well and truly mesmerised when I first set sights on Wallasey.
The Broomfield course is played over similar ground to the holes on the lower part of the Medal course.
Montrose, recognised as the fifth oldest course in the world, epitomises everything that is great and superior about links golf.
The Monifieth Golf Links Trust manage two wonderful golf courses that are the home to a trio of golf clubs.
The drive into Porthmadog from the North, down the A487 from Caernarfon, is an amazing and beautiful journey.
Borth & Ynyslas is a classic ‘out and back’ true links course.
Cleveland is one of a small handful of true links golf courses on the North-East coast of England; the only one in Yorkshire and the oldest too.
Selby, one of Yorkshire's most establish clubs, is set on high ground in North Yorkshire and is easily accessible from both the M1 and M62 motorway networks.
Dating back to 1892 Weston-super-Mare is a historic club with a true links course considered by many as one of the best in the South West.
St. Enodoc Golf Club, sitting proudly above the affluent village of Rock on the North Cornish coast, is a much revered and cherished place to play golf.
On a visit to the South-West that entailed no less than seven links courses Newquay proved to be the surprise package of the lot.
Established in 1889 West Cornwall Golf Club at Lelant is the oldest in the peninsula county, it is also one of the finest.
If you like your links golf a little bit on the extreme side (I do) then you will love Perranporth. It not only has a ‘wow’ factor, it has several of them!
