TAKING IN THE VIEW

Rob Smith argues that although beauty is in the eye of the beholder, our Top 100 are all a visual feast…

ithin the UK and Ireland we are incredibly lucky to have just about every type of golf course. They vary enormously in terms of overall golfing quality, but there is an interesting dichotomy in that while some of our greatest courses are not particularly lovely to look at, others boasting the most beautiful settings are not especially good tests of golf. Where the two coincide, we hit the jackpot.

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