Scotland
Browse Scotland →St Andrews — Old Course
St Andrews, Fife
The Home of Golf. Seven double greens, the Road Hole, the Swilcan Bridge. The Old Course has hosted The Open 30 times — …
Carnoustie Golf Links — Championship Course
Carnoustie, Angus
Nicknamed "Car-nasty" for good reason. The Barry Burn snakes through the closing holes, and the wind off the North Sea m…
Royal Troon
Troon, South Ayrshire
Home of the famous "Postage Stamp" 8th hole — one of the shortest, most fearsome par-3s in championship golf. Wind off t…
Muirfield (Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers)
Gullane, East Lothian
The world's oldest golf club, founded 1744 and at Muirfield since 1891. A links of perfect fairness — front nine clockwi…
Turnberry — Ailsa Course
Turnberry, South Ayrshire
Cliffside links on Scotland's west coast with a lighthouse, ruined castle, and views to Ailsa Craig. Host of the legenda…
Kingsbarns Golf Links
Kingsbarns, Fife
A modern links so convincing it feels four centuries old. Every hole has at least a glimpse of the North Sea. A regular …
Royal Dornoch Golf Club
Dornoch, Highlands
Highland links in the far north of Scotland — the most remote of the great Scottish links. Donald Ross learned course de…
North Berwick — West Links
North Berwick, East Lothian
The most quirky and original of the historic Scottish links. The 13th — Pit — plays over a stone wall. The 15th — Redan …
Gleneagles — King's Course
Auchterarder, Perth and Kinross
The original Gleneagles course — moorland golf at altitude in the Scottish Highlands. The PGA Centenary (a separate cour…
England
Browse England →Royal Birkdale
Southport, Merseyside
Often called the fairest of the Open rota courses — fairways routed through dunes rather than over them. Site of Jordan …
Royal Liverpool (Hoylake)
Hoylake, Merseyside
Founding home of English championship golf. Known as Hoylake. Tiger Woods used a driver only once across his 2006 Open v…
Royal St George's
Sandwich, Kent
Wild, dune-framed links on the Kent coast. The most natural-feeling course on the Open rota — bunkers shaped by wind, fa…
Royal Lytham & St Annes
Lytham St Annes, Lancashire
Unusual for opening with a par-3, and for being inland of the Irish Sea railway tracks rather than dune-set. The most st…
Sunningdale — Old Course
Sunningdale, Berkshire
The benchmark heathland course. Heather, gorse, pine, and elevation change — the model that countless inland English cou…
Wentworth Club — West Course
Virginia Water, Surrey
Home of the BMW PGA Championship. The "Burma Road" stretch from the 12th to 18th is one of the toughest closing runs on …
Northern Ireland
Browse Northern Ireland →Royal County Down
Newcastle, County Down
Ranked by many as the best links in the world. Set under the Mountains of Mourne, with blind shots, dune-framed fairways…
Royal Portrush — Dunluce Links
Portrush, County Antrim
The only Open Championship venue outside Great Britain. Reopened to The Open in 2019 after a 68-year absence, with Shane…