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Tom Fazio's reimagining of the Robert Trent Jones Sr parkland on the Maigue estate — host of the 2027 Ryder Cup and the most lavishly conditioned course in Ireland.

Robert Trent Jones Sr's bold 1984 links beside Ballybunion's famed Old Course — even bigger dunes and wilder ground, sweeping along the undisturbed Atlantic shoreline.

Tom Simpson links between towering dunes and the Atlantic in Co. Kerry. World-famous, raw and exhilarating — the par-4 11th ("Watson's") tumbling along the shoreline is one of golf's great holes.

Golf’s greatest test. Eight Opens, the Barry Burn, and a closing stretch that has broken champions.

The friendliest of the Carnoustie three. Links turf, wetlands and the best place here to learn the game.

The quiet equal of its famous neighbour. Ben Hogan qualified for his only Open here in 1953.

Old Tom Morris on the eastern tip of Fife. A short, joyful links where the beach is in play and the par-3 14th tumbles from clifftop tee to the shore.

Crail's modern championship links by Gil Hanse, threading clifftop fairways through medieval drystone walls with panoramic views to the Isle of May and Bass Rock.

Eddie Hackett's remote links at the tip of the Dingle Peninsula — the most westerly course in Ireland. A meandering burn crosses 13 holes beneath views to the Blasket Islands; authentic, unpretentious links in a living Gaeltacht.

One of Ireland's oldest links, founded 1889 and reshaped by Martin Hawtree — a hidden gem on the dunes at the head of Dingle Bay, ringed by the Reeks and the Dingle mountains.

Greg Norman's modern links above Doughmore Bay in Co. Clare, reworked by Martin Hawtree, set among some of Ireland's biggest dunes. A priceless jewel between Lahinch and Ballybunion — and host of the 2026 Amgen Irish Open.

A modern links with the scale of a championship venue. Three hundred man-made dunes, sweeping Firth of Forth views, and the natural successor to Kingsbarns.

James Braid's home links on the Fife coast. A quirky, par-70 classic with a blind opening drive played by submarine periscope and only two par 3s.

The jewel of Killarney — a six-time Irish Open host laid beside Lough Leane beneath the MacGillycuddy's Reeks, with water on nearly every hole and deer roaming the fairways.

A modern links that plays older than its years. The North Sea is in view from every hole.

A rare inland gem in a county of links. Old Tom Morris's heathland classic in the sheltered Howe of Fife, threading narrow fairways between heather and Scots pine, and a seven-time Open final-qualifying venue.

Old Tom Morris / Alister MacKenzie / Martin Hawtree links on Liscannor Bay in Co. Clare — "the St Andrews of Ireland." Quirky, blind and gloriously fun, with the famous Klondyke and Dell holes and the Cliffs of Moher nearby. 2026 Walker Cup host.

One of the oldest links in the world and a former Open final-qualifier. A classic Old Tom Morris layout closing over the demonic Scoonie Burn, separated from neighbouring Lundin only by the historic Mile Dyke.

A classic, history-soaked links on the edge of Romney Marsh — Laidlaw Purves, James Braid and Alister MacKenzie all left their mark. Few big dunes, but firm, fast greens and a brutal closing three. The quiet, affordable fourth of Kent’s links.

James Braid's clifftop links beside the Firth of Forth. An Open final-qualifying venue where the opening holes hug the beach and the 14th tee reveals the whole course.

A par-72 spectacle on a 220-acre headland near Kinsale, jutting two miles into the Atlantic with clifftop holes 300 feet above the ocean. Not a true links but unlike anywhere else in golf — pure drama on every hole, framed by a lighthouse.

Royal St George's spirited next-door neighbour and host of the 1932 Open. Twenty-seven holes of pure links across Sandwich Bay — Shore, Dunes and Himalayas — reworked by Mackenzie & Ebert and welcoming visitors seven days a week.

“Deal” — a raw, traditional Kent links with one of the most ferocious back nines in golf. A two-time Open host and the quietest, most authentic of the Sandwich trio.

Often ranked the best course in the world. Mournes brooding overhead, gorse everywhere.

The 2019 & 2025 Open venue. A wild, wind-shaped masterpiece on the Causeway Coast.

The South of England's answer to St Andrews. A wild, sprawling Open links at Sandwich — huge dunes, the deepest bunkers in golf and greens that ask everything. A 15-time Open host.

One of the world's oldest clubs, founded in 1817 by the men who became the R&A. A James Braid links-heathland hybrid that plays firm and fast, 10 miles from St Andrews and a six-time Open final-qualifier.

Harry Colt’s heathland masterpiece in the wooded private estates of Weybridge — 27 holes of pine, heather and sharp elevation change. Exclusive, immaculate and one of England’s very finest inland courses.

Harry Colt’s 1923 companion to the Old — wilder, higher and more exposed, with a heather-clad run through the heath that many rate the equal of its famous neighbour.

Willie Park Jnr’s 1901 heathland — the blueprint every inland course that followed has chased. Heather, pine and Bobby Jones’s ‘perfect round’. Endlessly playable, endlessly admired.

Harry Colt’s own favourite — the course he called his ‘least bad’. A secluded, almost mythical heathland hidden in the pines near Ascot, with five of the finest par 3s in golf and barely a soul in sight.

The tougher of The Berkshire’s two Fowler heathland courses — a more conventional routing with one of the sternest closing five-hole stretches in the UK&I Top 100, set in rolling pine and heather near Ascot.

Herbert Fowler’s 1928 heathland and the more talked-about of The Berkshire’s two courses — a unique 6-6-6 layout (six par 3s, 4s and 5s) through majestic Crown Estate pine. Variety and birdie chances at every turn.

Arnold Palmer's first European design, on a spectacular headland at West Barrow, Co. Kerry. A gentler links front nine gives way to a thunderous back nine through towering dunes — the par-3 'Shipwreck' 16th unforgettable. Ryan's Daughter beach scenes were filmed here.

Herbert Fowler’s 1904 heathland under a vast Surrey sky — in the World’s Top 100 every year since rankings began in 1938. Host of the 1981 Ryder Cup and the 2023 AIG Women’s Open; “wonderfully pure” in Jack Nicklaus’s words.

Eddie Hackett / Tom Fazio links on a remote dune-land isthmus by Ballinskelligs Bay, Co. Kerry. Surrounded by ocean, river and mountain, with a celebrated back nine and a bronze statue of Payne Stewart at the 18th. Often called Ireland's finest true links.

Surrey’s oldest heathland (1893) and a landmark in strategic course design — Low and Paton’s famous cross-bunkers on the 4th changed how architects think. Subtle, severe greens and springy heather underfoot.

J.F. Abercromby’s 1908 heathland (greens and bunkers by Willie Park Jnr) — the highest-ranked of Surrey’s ‘Three Ws’. Sand-based, superb in winter, with a celebrated par-3 10th over Bridley Pond beneath the rhododendrons.