Directory
All Links Courses
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Kingsbarns
A modern masterpiece of links design opened in 2000, seamlessly blending with the ancient Fife coastline.
Architect: Kyle Phillips· Est. 2000
Lahinch
The 'St Andrews of Ireland' — a wild and wonderful links on Liscannor Bay with a joyful, historic character.
Architect: Old Tom Morris· Est. 1892
Old Head of Kinsale
The most spectacular setting in golf — 220 acres on a dramatic headland 100 metres above the Atlantic Ocean.
Architect: Ron Kirby· Est. 1997
North Berwick
Golf's most beloved eccentricity — the original template for every great links hole, with Fidra Island as backdrop.
Architect: David Strath· Est. 1832
Pacific Dunes
Tom Doak's masterpiece on the Oregon coast — perhaps the finest links-style course in America.
Architect: Tom Doak· Est. 2001
Cruden Bay
A hidden gem on the Aberdeenshire coast — wild, eccentric, and utterly magnificent in every way.
Architect: Tom Simpson· Est. 1926
Waterville
One of Ireland's most spectacular and underrated links, set on the wild Kerry coastline amid breathtaking scenery.
Architect: Eddie Hackett· Est. 1889
Portmarnock
Ireland's most prestigious golf club, set on a peninsula between the Irish Sea and an estuary north of Dublin.
Architect: W.C. Pickeman· Est. 1894
Prestwick
Birthplace of The Open Championship — the most historic golf course in the world, unchanged in spirit since 1851.
Architect: Old Tom Morris· Est. 1851
Royal West Norfolk (Brancaster)
England's most remote and atmospheric links — cut off by the tide twice daily on the North Norfolk coast.
Architect: Holcombe Ingleby· Est. 1892
St Enodoc
John Betjeman's beloved Cornish links — wild duneland beside the Camel Estuary, a hidden gem of English golf.
Architect: James Braid· Est. 1890
Tralee
Arnold Palmer's masterpiece on the Barrow Peninsula — perhaps the most naturally beautiful links site in the world.
Architect: Arnold Palmer· Est. 1984
Nairn
A superb Highland links on the Moray Firth — flat, fast, and fiendishly difficult in the wind.
Architect: Andrew Simpson· Est. 1887
Bandon Dunes
The course that started the Bandon Dunes revolution — David McLay Kidd's raw, dramatic links on the Oregon coast.
Architect: David McLay Kidd· Est. 1999
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Barnbougle Dunes
A sensational discovery on Tasmania's north coast — an authentic links above the Bass Strait from Tom Doak and Mike Clayton.
Architect: Tom Doak· Est. 2004
Cape Kidnappers
Tom Doak's most dramatic creation — fairways on narrow ridges above the Pacific, 140 metres in the sky.
Architect: Tom Doak· Est. 2004
Kennemer
Harry Colt's masterpiece among the great Dutch dunes — one of the finest and most underrated links in Continental Europe.
Architect: H.S. Colt· Est. 1927
Falsterbo
Scandinavia's greatest links — a remote peninsula at Sweden's southernmost tip, with migratory birds and Baltic vistas.
Architect: Gunnar Bauer· Est. 1909
Saunton East
England's most underrated links — a magnificent Herbert Fowler design through the vast Braunton Burrows dune system.
Architect: Herbert Fowler· Est. 1897
The Island
Ireland's most secluded links — accessible only by ferry across a tidal inlet north of Dublin Airport.
Architect: Fred Hawtree· Est. 1890
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Carne
Eddie Hackett's final masterpiece — wild, remote, and utterly authentic links on Ireland's wild northwest coast.
Architect: Eddie Hackett· Est. 1995
Leopard Creek
Africa's most spectacular golf course — Gary Player's masterpiece bordering Kruger National Park.
Architect: Gary Player· Est. 1996
Durban Country Club
Africa's finest and most historic course — a sub-tropical links among the dunes of the Bluff above the Indian Ocean.
Architect: Laurie Waters· Est. 1922
Portstewart Strand
Northern Ireland's second great links, opening with seven spectacular holes through towering dunes before descending to the Bann Estuary.
Architect: Traditional· Est. 1894
