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Deep dives on the courses worth building a whole trip around.
Deep dives on the courses worth building a whole trip around.
The Home of Golf, where the game has been played for six centuries.
View guide →Carnasty — arguably the toughest links on the Open rota.
View guide →Golf's oldest club, on the finest fair test on the Open rota.
View guide →A clifftop links beneath a lighthouse on the Ayrshire coast.
View guide →A modern links that feels ancient, draped along the Fife shore.
View guide →England's finest links, tumbling through towering Southport dunes.
View guide →Blind drives and bearded bunkers beneath the Mountains of Mourne.
View guide →The Open's only Irish home, on the wild Causeway Coast.
View guide →The St Andrews of Ireland, where goats forecast the weather.
View guide →Arnold Palmer's first European design, on a clifftop in Kerry.
View guide →The course Tom Watson called the best in the world.
View guide →Canada's only true links, hard against the Gulf of St Lawrence.
View guide →Coore & Crenshaw cliff-top links on the wild edge of Cape Breton.
View guide →The most famous public-access course on earth, hugging Carmel Bay.
View guide →Alister MacKenzie's private masterpiece where forest, dune, and ocean meet.
View guide →A brutally beautiful Trent Jones test, from ocean dunes into the forest.
View guide →Home of the Masters and the most exclusive invitation in golf.
View guide →Donald Ross's windswept private gem, Ben Hogan's favorite warm-up.
View guide →Donald Ross's masterpiece of turtleback greens and shotmaking.
View guide →Pete Dye's faux-Irish links forged from a flat lakebed.
View guide →A wind-battered Pete Dye seaside test, host of the War by the Shore.
View guide →Tight, tree-lined precision golf beneath the red-and-white lighthouse.
View guide →Home of the 17th island green and the PGA Tour's Players Championship.
View guide →A pine-and-waterfall fantasy course conjured from the Mojave Desert.
View guide →The course that started it all — pure Scottish links on the Oregon coast.
View guide →Tom Doak's minimalist masterpiece, routed where the dunes told him to.
View guide →A wide-open tribute to golf's template holes and its founding architect.
View guide →The inland contrast — Coore & Crenshaw's journey through dune, forest, and meadow.
View guide →No bunkers, no rough, nine greens on the ocean bluff — the boldest course at Bandon.
View guide →The course that taught America how to build golf — private, revered, and rarely seen.
View guide →Coore and Crenshaw's strategic dunescape, all width and angles.
View guide →Tom Doak's rugged, big-scale half of the original Streamsong pair.
View guide →Gil Hanse's wide, brawny third course on its own dunescape parcel.
View guide →Coore and Crenshaw's glacial-sand canvas in the Wisconsin pines.
View guide →David McLay Kidd's wide, generous, fun-first sandbox course.
View guide →A glacial-terrain U.S. Open host, walking-only and wide open.
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