The best Open Championship venues
1. St Andrews
St Andrews, Fife
The original and best – there’s nothing quite like the Old Course in Open week. What’s most special is the way that the course merges into the town. The whole region is like one big golf course really. The atmosphere is incredible with golfers and golf fans from all over the world making the pilgrimage to the Home of Golf.
A word of warning though – it’s an awful viewing course in Open week. You can’t get into the middle of the course and there are only 11 greens – all of these double greens add up to 18, with one hole from the front nine and one from the back.
Dan Murphy
Dan loves links golf, which doesn't mean he is very good at it. He is a four-handicapper at Alwoodley. A qualified journalist and senior editor with 25 years’ experience, he was the long-time editor of NCG. His passion is golf courses and he is the founding editor of NCG Top 100s course rankings. He loves nothing more than discovering and highlighting courses that are worthy of greater recognition.
