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: 20-11
20. Seacroft
Where is it? Lincolnshire
Architect: W Fernie
Green fee: £60
What to expect: An out-and-back links that doesn’t get the attention it deserves. If it was slightly further south, in Norfolk, we’d all know more about it.
Memorable for: Greens in the dunes.
19. Burnham & Berrow
Where is it? Somerset
Architect: Herbert Fowler, Harry Colt
Green fee: £120
What to expect: One of the great English courses. Recent improvements to some of the (relatively speaking) weaker holes have raised it another notch.
Memorable for: The sensational opening stretch.
18. Kington
Where is it? Herefordshire
Architect: CK Hutchison
Green fee: £30
What to expect: The kind of turf you dream of striking irons from. This unusual moorland course is strategically fascinating and changes every day.
Memorable for: Short-game puzzles and tight lies.
17. The Addington
Where is it? Surrey
Architect: JF Abercromby
Green fee: £60
What to expect: An endlessly fascinating design over elevated, rolling land now happily being restored to its former glories.
Memorable for: The outrageous, terraced par-5 12th.
16. Woking
Where is it? Surrey
Architect: Dunn, Paton, Low
Green fee: £120
What to expect: The pick of the Three Ws in the eyes of many discerning judges. So many attractive and interesting holes – and very demanding greens.
Memorable for: Low and Paton’s famous bunkers on the 4th.
15. Hunstanton
Where is it? Norfolk
Architect: James Braid
Green fee: £100
What to expect: One half of the great Norfolk double act along with Brancaster. A timeless links that is playful and stern in turns.
Memorable for: The great bunkerless, shelfed-green 17th.
Where is it? Nottinghamshire
Architect: Willie Par Jnr
Green fee: £110
What to expect: Up there with the very best inland courses in England – and that’s saying something. More changes of elevation than at most courses of this quality.
Memorable for: There’s no finer inland course to arrive at.
13. St Andrews (New)
Where is it? Fife
Architect: Old Tom Morris
Green fee: £85
What to expect: Alongside the Old, but a very different type of course: More honest, easier to understand, more consistent.
Memorable for: The high point is the par-3 9th.
12. Ganton
Where is it? Yorkshire
Architect: Vardon, Ray, Braid & more
Green fee: £120
What to expect: One of very few courses that warrants the description ‘inland links’. This land was once beside the sea and you can tell from the turf.
Memorable for: The famous bunker across the 16th fairway.
Where is it? Cornwall
Architect: James Braid~
Green fee: £95
What to expect: A richly characterful links with several holes that fall into the once-played-never-forgotten category. The ripples of the opening fairway set the scene perfectly.
Memorable for: The Church hole (the 10th) alone.
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