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: 50-41
50. St Andrews (Old)
Where is it? Fife
Architect: Unknown
Green fee: £195
What to expect: Simultaneously familiar to all of us and yet deeply mysterious, the Old Course is a puzzle you’ll never tire of trying to solve.
Memorable for: Being the Old Course.
49. Moortown
Where is it? Yorkshire
Architect: Alister MacKenzie
Green fee: £105
What to expect: Recent tree removal is restoring Moortown’s heathland credentials and offering open vistas. The best stretch is in the middle of the back nine.
Memorable for: MacKenzie’s show hole – the short 10th.
48. Delamere Forest
Where is it? Cheshire
Architect: Herbert Fowler
Green fee: £75
What to expect: A course that has undergone significant renovations in recent years to make the most out of its fine turf and unusual elevated location.
Memorable for: Fowler’s use of the rolling land.
47. Cleeve Hill
Where is it? Gloucestershire
Architect: David Brown
Green fee: £18
What to expect: Disconcertingly undefined tee shots that mean you often don’t realise how important approach angles are until too late.
Memorable for: Simple yet cute green shapes and surrounds.
46. East Devon
Where is it? Devon
Architect: R Tosswill, Fowler, Colt
Green fee: £75
What to expect: Lots of heather, plenty of gorse, some sea views from on high and even a bit of parkland. Great short holes too.
Memorable for: The dramatic, heather-valleyed 17th.
45. Liphook
Where is it? Hampshire
Architect: Croome, Abercromby, Simpson
Green fee: £95
What to expect: A whole new look following recent structural changes but Liphook remans among the prettiest of the south-east heathlands.
Memorable for: Pure fairways lined by heather and pines.
44. Elie
Where is it? Fife
Architect: Old Tom Morris
Green fee: £105
What to expect: A pint-sized links that flows down to the seaside and back with a selection of cunningly designed holes. Heavenly on a summer’s evening.
Memorable for: The periscope on the 1st tee.
43. Royal Porthcawl
Where is it? South Wales
Architect: Ramsay Hunter#
Green fee: £145
What to expect: Undisputedly the finest course in Wales. Presentation is a real strength and the unusual changes in elevation allow for almost constant views of Rest Bay.
Memorable for: An inspiring opening stretch alongside the beach.
42. Goswick
Where is it? Northumberland
Architect: James Braid, Frank Pennink
Green fee: £65
What to expect: England’s most northerly links. Goswick is not all that far from the East Lothian coast and it’s a course that wouldn’t be out of place there.
Memorable for: Big dunes, and plenty of character.
41. Gailes Links
Where is it? Ayrshire
Architect: Old Tom Morris/Willie Park
Green fee: £95
What to expect: An incredibly consistent and well-balanced links that rarely misses a beat, even if it is not the most spectacular in Ayrshire.
Memorable for: The short 6th is an obvious highlight.
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