FIVE MORE 36-HOLE CLASSICS
Sunningdale
Quite simply, in golfing terms, the Old and New courses are divine – they are the two highest-placed inland designs in the GM Top 100. Here, you feel as though you are stepping back in time to enjoy quintessential heathland golf.
Ballybunion
For neighbouring links, the two courses here could hardly be more different. The Old is a wonderful, classic test with some spectacular holes through the dunes. The Cashen, a Trent Jones Snr design, is more dramatic.
Fairmont St Andrews
St Andrews is the spiritual home of golf, but for anyone seeking an alternative to its wonderful links offerings, the two courses up on the hill at Fairmont St Andrews serve up 36 holes of scenic and thoroughly enjoyable golf.
Moor Park
The two Harry Colt designs at Moor Park in Hertfordshire run round one of the grandest clubhouses in golf, a Grade Ilisted 17th-century Palladian mansion. The High has hosted many professional events, while the West is a little shorter but just as entertaining.
Saunton
The East course is another Herbert Fowler masterpiece while the West is actually a Frank Pennink re-creation of a Fowler design that lay dormant from the 1930s to 1975. Each is packed with interest and strong golf.