Golf Magazine has published its list of the Top 100 Golf Courses in the World 2015 as judged by their panel of experts.
Scotland’s golf courses feature heavily on the list with 5 courses in the top 25 and 12 courses in the top 100. The Old Course in St Andrews is the highest ranked Scottish course at number 3. Ireland boasts 7 courses on the list with England featuring 10 courses. Wales has Royal Portcawl as its solitary entry. As a whole, the UK makes up over 30% of the Top 100 courses in the world.
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1 Pine Valley US H.S. Colt, George Crump, 1918
2 Cypress Point US Alister MacKenzie, 1928
3 Augusta National US Bobby Jones, Alister MacKenzie, 1933
4 St. Andrews (Old Course) Scotland Nature, 1400
5 Royal County Down N. Ireland Old Tom Morris, 1889
6 Shinnecock Hills US William Flynn, 1931
7 Pebble Beach Golf Links US Douglas Grant, Jack Neville, 1919
8 Oakmont US Henry Fownes, 1903
9 Muirfield Scotland H.S. Colt, Old Tom Morris, 1891
10 National Golf Links of America US C.B. Macdonald, 1911
11 Merion (East) US Hugh Wilson, 1912
12 Royal Melbourne (West)
13 Sand Hills
14 Royal Dornoch (Championship)
15 Royal Portrush (Dunluce)
16 Pinehurst Resort (No. 2)
17 Ballybunion (Old)
18 Fishers Island Club
19 Seminole Golf Club
20 Winged Foot (West)
21 Pacific Dunes
22 Crystal Downs
23 Trump Turnberry (Ailsa)
24 San Francisco Golf Club
25 Carnoustie (Championship)
26 Chicago Golf Club
27 Prairie Dunes
28 Kingston Heath
29 Riviera Country Club
30 Los Angeles Country Club (North)
31 Friar’s Head
32 Royal Birkdale
33 Royal St. George’s
34 The Country Club Brookline (Clyde/Squirrel)
35 Sunningdale (Old)
36 Barnbougle (Dunes)
37 New South Wales Golf Club
38 Diamante (Dunes)
39 Casa de Campo (Teeth of the Dog)
40 Cape Kidnappers
41 Lahinch Golf Club (Old)
42 Hirono Golf Club
43 Nine Bridges
44 Oakland Hills (South)
45 Morfontaine
46 Bethpage (Black)
48 Trump International Golf Links Scotland
49 Royal Troon (Old)
50 Kiawah Island (Ocean)
51 Garden City Golf Club
52 Whistling Straits (Straits)
53 Muirfield Village Golf Club
54 TPC Sawgrass (Stadium)
55 Portmarnock (Old)
56 Shoreacres
57 The Camargo Club
58 Oitavos Dunes
59 Baltusrol Golf Club (Lower)
60 The Olympic Club
61 Royal Lytham & St. Annes
62 Southern Hills
63 North Berwick (West)
64 Bandon Dunes
65 Kingsbarns Golf Links
66 Maidstone Club
67 Kawana (Fuji)
68 Oak Hill (East)
69 Castle Stuart Golf Links
70 Woodhall Spa (Hotchkin)
71 Somerset Hills
72 The Golf Club
73 Ellerston
74 Quaker Ridge
75 Cabot Links
76 Ayodhya Links
77 Cruden Bay
78 Ballyneal
79 Inverness
80 Ganton
81 California Golf Club of San Francisco
82 Royal Liverpool
83 Waterville
84 Winged Foot (East)
85 Barnbougle Lost Farm
86 Walton Heath (Old)
87 St. George’s
88 Royal Porthcawl
89 Swinley Forest
90 European Club
91 Harbour Town Golf Links, Sea Pines Resort
92 Koninklijke Haagsche
93 Machrihanish
94 Kauri Cliffs
95 Sunningdale (New)
96 Tokyo Golf Club
97 Durban Country Club
98 Rye Golf Club
99 Valderrama Golf Club
100 Cabo del Sol (Ocean)
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Situated to the south of Royal Dornoch, Tain is a heathland/links course with spectacular views. Designed originally by Old Tom Morris as a fifteen-hole course in 1890, it was extended to eighteen holes in 1894; eleven Morris holes are still in play today. This is an easy walking course with the river meandering through three of the holes. Always presented in beautiful condition, Tain is a good test of golf, with clever bunkering and natural water hazards. Tain is located 35 miles north of Inverness.
