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: 90-81
Where is it? Lancashire
Architect: George Lowe, Sandy Herd
Green fee: £65
What to expect: A flat parcel of linksland packed with strong holes. A ball-striker’s paradise with a strong collection of short holes.
Memorable for: The wonderful par-3 9th.
89. Trump International (Aberdeen)
Where is it? Aberdeenshir
Architect: Martin Hawtree
Green fee: £195
What to expect: Dunes on an epic scale and lots of elevated tees that let you appreciate them fully. It’s a 21st-century take on links golf.
Memorable for: The repeated, show-stopping dramatic moments.
88. Ladybank
Where is it? Fife
Architect: Old Tom Morris
Green fee: £80
What to expect: A gentle retreat from Fife’s world-renowned links. Ladybank is one of the best inland courses in Scotland.
Memorable for: The mellifluous pines and tight turf.
87. Shiskine
Where is it? Isle of Arran
Architect: Willie Fernie
Green fee: £26
What to expect: The only 12-holer to be found in a course rakings list. The pride of Arran is a law unto itself – with a handful of show-stopping holes.
Memorable for: Its 12 holes – and much more.
86. Sutton Coldfield
Where is it? Warwickshire
Architect: Alister MacKenzie
Green fee: £55
What to expect: A huge, sprawling heathland. Many fine holes being revealed now a tree and bush-clearing programme is under way.
Memorable for: Having three successive par 5s.
85. Bull Bay
Where is it? North Wales
Architect: Herbert Fowler
Green fee: £35
What to expect: A gorgeous, strategic course on the Anglesey coast, the only one designed by Fowler in Wales. It’s a real treat.
Memorable for: Those sea views from on high.
84. Thorpeness
Where is it? Suffolk
Architect: James Braid
Green fee: £45
What to expect: One of the Suffolk classics. Braid was responsible for many but not all of the holes on this easy-walking heathland.
Memorable for: The windmill behind the 18th green.
83. Tandridge
Where is it? Surrey
Architect: Harry Colt, Frank Pont
Green fee: £70
What to expect: A Colt parkland that has been extensively renovated in recent years and is exceptionally well bunkered.
Memorable for: The 14th from its elevated tee.
82. Worplesdon
Where is it? Surrey
Architect: JF Abercromby/Willie Park JR
Green fee: £140
What to expect: Perhaps the prettiest of the Three Ws and improved by the recent removal of hundreds of trees. Small and perfectly formed.
Memorable for: The idyllic setting around the clubhouse.
Where is it? Cornwall
Architect: Tom Dunn
Green fee: £40
What to expect: The unexpected. The opening holes ease you in gently but once you cross the road let the real games begin at this ancient links.
Memorable for: Joyously bewildering blind approach shots.
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