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- Location: Sandwich, Kent, England
- Founded: 1887
- Designed by: Laidlaw Purves
- Green fee: £125-£275
- 23/24 ranking: No change
Host to The Open Championship for a 15th time in 2021, an event won my Collin Morikawa, Royal St George’s was founded in 1887 and was the first English course to welcome the great old championship, which it did in 1894.
A great feature at St George’s is the fact the holes point in multiple directions, so the background is always changing, so too the wind direction. Picking an aiming point from the tee is crucial. The course offers a full test of golf, asking for power, creativity and discipline.
The green complexes are famously appealing, beautifully presented but also highly challenging. Many of the greens were made larger for the 2021 Open and many feature subtle breaks and tricky run-offs.
– Royal St George’s review and key info
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- Location: Hoylake, Wirral, England
- Founded: 1869
- Designed by: Robert Chambers, George Morris and Harry Colt
- Green fee: £215-£265
- 23/24 ranking: No change
Built in 1869, on what was then the racecourse of the Liverpool Hunt Club, Hoylake is the second oldest of the English seaside courses, after Westward Ho! The club has played host to The Open Championship on 12 occasions with recent winners Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods demonstrating the quality of golf demanded by this excellent course.
For 2023, significant course enhancements have been undertaken with advice from renowned course architect Martin Ebert. Hoylake is a club with a proud history, but they are also always looking to the future.
The redeveloped 15th, which will play as the 17th in The Open Championship, is the perfect example of that. It’s a fabulous little par-3 with an elevated green set in the sand dunes.
– Royal Liverpool Golf Club review and key info
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- Location: Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, England
- Opened: 1905
- Designed by: Harry Vardon
- Green fee: £90-£205
- 23/24 ranking: Up 5
Only the two Sunningdales eclipse Woodhall Spa’s Hotchkin layout among the inland courses in our rankings, with Harry Vardon, J.H. Taylor, Harry Colt, and Stafford Vere Hotchkin all contributing on the design side. More recently, Tom Doak’s highly acclaimed renovation, completed in spring 2019, has elevated the course’s status yet further. Doak was guided by a vision to restore more of the Hotchkin’s original heathland character, with many long-lost bunkers also…
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