Global Golfer Magazine’s definitive guide to the world’s best links golf holidays and escapes, from the Old Course St Andrews to Pebble Beach Golf Links.
Paul Atkinson, from Newcastle Upon Tyne reviews Goswick Golf Club on the Northumberland Coast. Valhalla, as my golfing pals call it, sits around two miles off the A1 just short of Berwick upon Tweed on the cusp of Scotland. It’s one of the last golf stops in Northumberland, England’s spacious and beautiful border county. An …
Amongst sleepy fishing villages in the far north eastern tip of Scotland is a course like no other… Cullen in Banffshire- at just 4597-yards and par 63 – is the epitome of quirkiness. Only an hour’s drive from famed championship links like Cruden Bay and Royal Aberdeen, you may laugh at the prospect of playing …
They say in Scotland that the truest test of a links course is its proximity to the sea. In the northerly tip of Mallorca, close to the popular port of Alcudia, a new Robert Trent Jones Jnr course has been built on a spectacular beachfront. Club de Golf Alcanada opened in 2003, and while it …
North East England borders Scotland, the “Home of Golf,” and it’s no surprise that many golfers pass through rather than tee up. Global Golfer discovered lots of reasons for golfers to stay awhile… £50m Rockcliffe Hall is golf’s Angel of the North Play the hardest 9th hole in golf Close House & Lee Westwood – …
England’s North West coast – blessed by a royal trilogy of Open Championship venues and a supporting cast of courses difficult to equal… Which is King of the Royal Open venues? Murder Mile and a monument to the game at Royal Lytham A love affair with the great Bobby Jones Perfect neighbours – Hillside and …
Scotland’s Angus county is famous for Carnoustie – arguably the toughest course on the Open Championship rota. Along the Angus coastline and inland, in the shadow of the Grampian Hills among beautiful glens are several little known courses worth praise and acclaim too. More to Angus than “Carnasty” Play the 5th oldest links in the …
Scottish Golf has its places of pilgrimage but Global Golfer stepped off the beaten track and discovered that Aberdeen and the Grampian Highlands well worth the visit… From oil outpost to golf central Tame the Serpentine at Murcar Golf Club Play the 6th oldest golf course in the world at Royal Aberdeen The inspiration for …