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Architect: George Lowe· Est. 1889

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Royal St George's

The site of the first Open Championship outside Scotland, a true test of traditional links golf in Kent.

GBP 250–320

Architect: Laidlaw Purves· Est. 1887

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Royal Liverpool (Hoylake)

One of the most testing and historic links in England, where Tiger Woods won the 2006 Open with irons only.

GBP 240–310

Architect: Robert Chambers· Est. 1869

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Royal West Norfolk (Brancaster)

England's most remote and atmospheric links — cut off by the tide twice daily on the North Norfolk coast.

GBP 90–130

Architect: Holcombe Ingleby· Est. 1892

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St Enodoc

John Betjeman's beloved Cornish links — wild duneland beside the Camel Estuary, a hidden gem of English golf.

GBP 80–120

Architect: James Braid· Est. 1890

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Royal Lytham

An unusual but magnificent Open Championship links — surrounded by Victorian red-brick houses and bordered by the railway.

GBP 220–290

Architect: George Lowe Sr.· Est. 1886

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Saunton East

England's most underrated links — a magnificent Herbert Fowler design through the vast Braunton Burrows dune system.

GBP 85–115

Architect: Herbert Fowler· Est. 1897

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Royal Cinque Ports

A brutally tough Open Championship links on the Kent coast, notorious for its relentless back nine and strong prevailing winds.

GBP 150–200

Architect: Tommy Dunn· Est. 1892

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Rye Old

Harry Colt's debut design — a deceptively short but fiendishly difficult private links on the Sussex coast, par 68 and no pushover.

GBP 100–150

Very hard

Architect: Harry Colt· Est. 1894

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Silloth on Solway

England's most remote top-100 links, a Willie Park Jr gem on the Solway Firth that makes the journey more than worthwhile.

GBP 45–75

Architect: Willie Park Jr· Est. 1892

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Hillside

The underrated neighbour of Royal Birkdale, an Open qualifying venue in its own right with spectacular back nine holes through the dunes.

GBP 90–150

Architect: Fred Hawtree· Est. 1923

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Formby

The prettiest of the Lancashire links, where pine-bordered fairways and towering dunes create a unique hybrid character.

GBP 90–150

Architect: Willie Park Jr· Est. 1884

Burnham & Berrow Golf Club (Championship)

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Burnham & Berrow

England's finest links in the South West, a magnificent championship course hosting Open qualifying and major amateur events.

GBP 75–125

Architect: Herbert Fowler· Est. 1890

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Hunstanton

The finest links in East Anglia, a classic out-and-back course on The Wash where Curtis Cup and English amateur championships are regularly held.

GBP 70–120

Architect: George Fernie· Est. 1891

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West Lancashire

One of England's oldest clubs, a traditional Lancashire links close to Liverpool with a long history of hosting major amateur championships.

GBP 60–100

Architect: Old Tom Morris· Est. 1873

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Prince's

27 holes of championship links at Sandwich Bay, once a par-68 Open venue, now a magnificent three-nine layout in the heart of the Kent links triangle.

GBP 85–140

Architect: Jim Arthur· Est. 1907

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Southport & Ainsdale

James Braid's Ryder Cup links in the Lancashire coastal corridor, twice host to the match and a proud Open qualifying venue.

GBP 75–120

Architect: James Braid· Est. 1906

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Wallasey

The Wirral Peninsula links where Dr Frank Stableford invented the Stableford scoring system in 1932 — a historic course with a dramatic estuary setting.

GBP 60–100