20 for ’20: The affordable overseas courses you need to play this year
When I put together the 20 courses you must play this year, one avid fan of my work described it as an “elitist list”. To be fair he was correct. They weren’t the most obvious collection of courses to moot, but equally they were all fairly expensive and most were reasonably well known. And as we are for the many not the few at NCG, the challenge was set to come up with another batch of ‘must plays’ that would fit most budgets. I’ve done 10 within our own islands here, and now here are the 10 best affordable golf courses outside GB&I, starting with…
Wimereux
Why play it? Barely 15 minutes off the Channel Tunnel, this under-stated seaside course has bags of appeal. A Continental Top 100 contender and an absolute must for hipsters, it has several outstanding holes among more steady fayre.
Chris Bertram
Chris Bertram is a specialist in all things golf courses.
He was born and brought up in Dumfriesshire and has been a sports journalist since 1996, initially as a junior writer with National Club Golfer magazine.
Chris then spent four years writing about football and rugby union for the Press Association but returned to be Editor and then Publisher of NCG.
He has been freelance since 2010 and spends the majority of his time playing golf and writing about the world’s finest golf courses.