NCG’s Top 100 Value Golf Courses in Great Britain and Ireland
Our rundown of the best value golf courses in Great Britain continues…
Best value golf courses top 100: 10-1
10. Pennard
Where is it? South Wales
Architect: James Braid/CK Cotton
Green fee: £65
What to expect: A design that owes everything to nature and the happy geological accident that provided ideal golfing conditions on the Gower Peninsula clifftops.
Memorable for: The evocative ruins and rippling fairways.
Where is it? Devon
Architect: Old Tom Morris
Green fee: £70
What to expect: A golfing playground, occasionally featureless to the untrained eye, but in fact incredibly rich in character. A course to treasure.
Memorable for: Those sleeper-faced bunkers.
Where is it? Devon
Architect: Herbert Fowler
Green fee: £100
What to expect: A links many think is the best in the south-west. It certainly begins in epic style with a truly great opening hole.
Memorable for: The opening tee shot takes some beating.
7. Alwoodley
Where is it? Yorkshire
Architect: Alister MacKenzie
Green fee: £110
What to expect: The Original MacKenzie is an effortlessly classy blend of moorland and heathland. The large, undulating greens are attractive and testing.
Memorable for: The 11th green is a one-off.
Where is it? Norfolk
Architect: Holcombe Ingleby
Green fee: £90What to expect: Perhaps the most idiosyncratic of Britain’s great links. It can, should and will never change. A course to fall in love with.
Memorable for: The beach-straddling walk to the 1st tee.
5. West Sussex
Where is it? Sussex
Architect: Guy Campbell
Green fee: £100
What to expect: An intriguing and extremely attractive heathland with some unusual holes. The short holes are in a class of their own – and they are varied too.
Memorable for: The par-3 6th is stunning.
4. Machrihanish
Where is it? Argyll
Architect: Old Tom Morris.
Green fee: £75
What to expect: Timeless views across to the likes of Gigha and Islay (on a clear day) and a collection of completely original and inimitable holes.
Memorable for: The famous opening tee shot.
3. Aberdovey
Where is it? North Wales
Architect: Colt, Braid, Fowler
Green fee: £50
What to expect: A more playful links than either Royal St David’s or Porthcawl. Aberdovey exudes charm and is a course visitors yearn to come back to.
Memorable for: The short par-4 16th alongside the railway.
Where is it? Lincolnshire
Architect: SV Hotchkin
Green fee: £114
What to expect: Tom Doak has worked his magic to restore Woodhall Spa’s open vistas and heathland characteristics.
Memorable for: The terrifyingly deep, yellow-sanded bunkers
1. Silloth
Where is it? Cumbria
Architect: Grant, Park Jnr, MacKenzie
Green fee: £60
What to expect: A journey through the dunes that begins with the opening tee shot. Like all the best links, it mixes birdie chances with hugely testing par 4s.
Memorable for: The super-cute par-3 9th.
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