Top 15 golf courses in United Kingdom
15 celebrated courses in United Kingdom, from historic links to spectacular resort layouts.
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15 golf courses
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1Links
The Old Course, St Andrews
Historic public links known as the home of golf, played for some six centuries and a regular Open venue.
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2Links
Muirfield
Links of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, one of the world's oldest golf clubs.
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3Links
Royal County Down
Links laid out beneath the Mourne Mountains along Dundrum Bay, with towering gorse-clad dunes.
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4Links
Royal Portrush
Dunluce Links on the Causeway Coast, host of the Open Championship in 1951, 2019 and 2025.
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5Links
Carnoustie Golf Links
Championship links on the Angus coast, renowned as one of the toughest courses on the Open rota.
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6Links
Royal Birkdale
Sefton coast links threading between high sand dunes, a frequent host of the Open Championship.
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7Coastal & clifftop
Trump Turnberry (Ailsa Course)
Ayrshire links beside the Turnberry lighthouse with views to Ailsa Craig and the Isle of Arran.
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8Links
Royal St George's
Kent links that in 1894 became the first course outside Scotland to host the Open Championship.
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9Links
Royal Liverpool
Hoylake links founded in 1869 beside the Dee estuary, a long-standing Open Championship venue.
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10Links
Royal Troon
Ayrshire links famed for the Postage Stamp, one of the shortest holes in championship golf.
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11Heathland
Sunningdale (Old Course)
Willie Park Jr's 1901 heathland course of pine, heather and silver birch in Berkshire.
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12Heathland
Wentworth (West Course)
Surrey heathland course, home of the BMW PGA Championship and birthplace of the Ryder Cup idea.
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13Links
Royal Porthcawl
Wales's foremost links, set above the Bristol Channel with the sea visible from every hole.
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14Heathland
Gleneagles (King's Course)
James Braid's 1919 moorland course set among the Ochil Hills at the Perthshire estate.
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15Resort
Celtic Manor (Twenty Ten Course)
Resort course in the Usk Valley built for the 2010 Ryder Cup, the first held in Wales.
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