Your Top 100 Golf Courses of Britain & Ireland

12th November 2010

It is high time to announce the most fascinating element of the Top 100 website. Your golf course review posts are not only entertaining and incredibly well written, but also they provide an alternative perspective to golf course ratings. Every two years we assimilate your personal ratings for each course and input your data into our overall golf course ranking process.

Most people reading this news item will be familiar with the golf ball ratings that are used alongside your player review online posts. We’ve focused on each and every golf ball that you have allocated to every British and Irish course and we’ve painstakingly number crunched the data. We then sequenced the results and produced a unique Top 100 list, which is “Your Britain & Ireland Top 100”.

To support this process, we have also produced and published “Your Top 100” lists for Scotland, Ireland and England. Additionally we’ve published a “Your Top 30” for Wales. Details of these releases are available in the news section of the Top 100 website, but for your convenience, here are links to each of these recent news items:

Your Top 30 Golf Courses in Wales
Your Top 100 Golf Courses in Scotland
Your Top 100 Golf Courses in Ireland
Your Top 100 Golf Courses in England

Without further ado, here is Your Top 100 Golf Courses of Britain & Ireland:

1 Royal County Down
2 Royal St George's
3 Bearwood Lakes
4 Turnberry (Ailsa)
5 Woodhall Spa (Hotchkin)
6 St Andrews (Old)
7 Kingsbarns
8 European Club
9 Royal Dornoch (Championship)
10 Royal Birkdale
11 Royal Cinque Ports
12 Royal Aberdeen
13 Carnoustie (Championship)
14 Royal Portrush (Dunluce)
15 Tralee
16 Machrihanish
17 Royal West Norfolk
18 Muirfield
19 Ballybunion (Old)
20 Royal Liverpool
21 Sunningdale (Old)
22 Rosapenna (Sandy Hills)
23 Enniscrone (Dunes)
24 Cruden Bay
25 Formby
26 Saunton (East)
27 St Andrews (Castle)
28 Carne
29 Silloth-on-Solway
30 Machrie
31 Hankley Common
32 Belfry (Brabazon)
33 Burnham & Berrow
34 North Berwick
35 Castle Stuart
36 Lahinch (Old)
37 Sandiway
38 Beau Desert
39 Berwick-upon-Tweed
40 Royal St David's
41 Delamere Forest
42 Waterville
43 Notts
44 Ganton
45 Nefyn (Old)
46 Dundonald
47 Portmarnock Hotel Links
48 Addington
49 Royal Lytham & St Annes
50 East Berkshire
51 Aberdovey
52 St Enodoc (Church)
53 Old Head
54 West Sussex
55 Hunstanton
56 Southport & Ainsdale
57 St George's Hill
58 Perranporth
59 Druids Glen
60 Pennard
61 Loch Lomond
62 Celtic Manor (Twenty Ten)
63 Ballyliffin (Glashedy)
64 Royal Porthcawl
65 Dunbar
66 Portmarnock (Old)
67 Nairn
68 Belvoir Park
69 Brora
70 Moortown
71 Prince's
72 Gullane (No.1)
73 Royal North Devon
74 Rye (Old)
75 Trevose (Championship)
76 Hillside
77 Goodwood (Downs)
78 Prestwick
79 Sherwood Forest
80 Woking
81 Spey Valley
82 West Hill
83 Remedy Oak
84 Parkstone
85 Sunningdale (New)
86 St Mellion (Nicklaus)
87 Walton Heath (Old)
88 Portstewart (Strand)
89 St Andrews (New)
90 Swinley Forest
91 Chart Hills
92 Montrose (Medal)
93 Lough Erne
94 Wisley (Garden & Mill)
95 West Lancs
96 Brocket Hall (Melbourne)
97 Heythrop Park
98 Glen
99 Oxfordshire
100 Lundin

Finally, we’d like to thank literally thousands of people who have contributed to this process. It’s your player reviews that cut to the chase, bring the Top 100 website to life and also play a part in shaping our overall golf course rankings. Please keep them coming!

Kind regards,

The Top 100 Team