England

Birkdale is a modern championship template of dune lined corridors and grandstands, hosting the Open ten times. Palmer won here in...

Sandwich has hosted the Open 15 times, from John Henry Taylor to Collin Morikawa in 2021. Its huge dunes and the famous Suez Canal...

Lytham is the most urban of English links, an inland ribbon of 166 bunkers and small greens. Bobby Jones won the 1926 Open with hi...

Hoylake is hard and fast, and Bobby Jones won the 1930 Open here on his way to the Grand Slam. Tiger Woods won in 2006 using his d...

The Old Course proved golf could be sublime away from the sea, carved through Berkshire heath and pines. Bobby Jones called a 66 h...

The New Course at Sunningdale is a companion piece to the Old, routed over more dramatic slopes by Harry Colt. It has hosted final...

The West Course, nicknamed the Burma Road, closes with the famous water guarded par 5 18th in front of the clubhouse. It has hoste...

The Hotchkin Course is the spiritual home of English heathland golf, its ragged bunkers cut ten feet deep into sand. It served as ...

Deal is a flat, fierce links where wind does the scoring. Ray and Hagen won its two Opens early in the century. It remains an Open...

Alwoodley was the first course laid out by Alister MacKenzie, later the architect of Augusta National. The Yorkshire heath routing...

Royal West Norfolk at Brancaster opened in 1892 on a strip of dunes between salt marsh and the North Sea. At high tide the access ...

Walton Heath opened in 1904 on high Surrey heath, designed by Herbert Fowler, and James Braid served as its professional for decad...

Swinley Forest opened around 1910 and is one of the most admired designs of Harry Colt, who called it his least bad course. Its fa...

Ganton sits in the Vale of Pickering on sandy soil, giving it firm turf and gorse lined fairways unusual for an inland course. Har...

The Brabazon course at The Belfry opened in 1977, designed by Peter Alliss and Dave Thomas, and became the home of European Ryder ...