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- Location: Poole, Dorset, England
- Founded: 1909
- Designed by: Willie Park Jr
- Green fee: £70-£150
- 23/24 ranking: Down 1
One of Bournemouth’s big-hitting trio, Parkstone is one of many UK courses that has been striving to rediscover its heathland roots in recent years. Recent improvements are now fully bedded in on this fine layout that features many attractive holes.
There are several thrilling tee-shots, such as the 3rd where you play from a causeway crossing water, and each of the short holes is a real gem.
– Parkstone review and key info
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- Location: Blairgowrie and Rattray, Perthshire, Scotland
- Founded: 1889
- Designed by: Alister MacKenzie and James Braid
- Green fee: £80-£120
- 23/24 ranking: Down 8
A beautiful layout that weaves its way through majestic pines. James Braid is one of the most prolific architects in the Top 100, and the Rosemount is his 1930s reworking of an earlier Alister MacKenzie design.
While finding the fairways on this tree-lined classic is more about accuracy than brute force, the reward for so doing will be the chance to play from a perfect lie.
– Blairgowrie Rosemount review and key info
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- Location: Woking, Surrey, England
- Founded: 1893
- Designed by: Tom Dunn
- Green fee: £100-£155
- 23/24 ranking: No change
Woking has long been regarded as architecturally significant. The short par-4 start is followed by a superb par 3 recently enhanced by the removal of a large oak and bunker improvements.
There’s no let-up in quality throughout, with the vista from the elevated 6th tee perhaps the best on the course. It is both a case study in strategic course design as well as a beautiful place to play.
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- Location: Westward Ho!, Devon, England
- Founded: 1864
- Designed by: Old Tom Morris
- Green fee: £50-£130
- 23/24 ranking: Up 1
A historic, unique and characterful seaside course, it’s golf in a pure form. Set on a flat coastal plain at the edge of Westward Ho! it’s one of the country’s most natural layouts.
Covered in sea rushes and grazed upon by sheep and wild horses, it can take a couple of rounds to begin to understand the subtleties of this great links. Although RND appears to be flat there are many undulations and run-offs to deceive and perplex.
– Royal North Devon review and key info
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- Location: Woburn, Buckinghamshire, England
- Opened: 1976
- Designed by: Charles Lawrie
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