Best Heathland Golf in England’s Famed Sand Belt
The best heathland golf courses in England’s renowned Sand Belt, with classic layouts and beautiful landscapes.
Top 10 “Blue” Courses in Golf
We counted more than two dozen courses worldwide where “Blue” is either part of the course name or is the actual course name.
Do You Track Your Own Golf Stats?
Have You Played Golf in England?
6 Lesser-Known Links on England’s Lancashire Coast
Come for the three Open Championship venues on England’s Lancashire coast, but stay for six lesser-known links There are nine courses currently on the R&A’s Open rota, and three of them—including Royal Liverpool, the venue for this year’s 151st championship—are within an hour-and-a-half’s drive of one another amidst a glorious stretch of linksland between Liverpool […]
My 10 Favorite Holes in England
There’s somewhere between 35,000 and 40,000 golf holes in England—not Great Britain (England, Scotland, and Wales) nor the United Kingdom (Great Britain and Northern Ireland), but just England—which is a few hundred square miles smaller than Alabama. So, you can imagine how often a bloke who’d played perhaps a quarter of those holes might rethink, […]
Is an Overseas Membership for You?
You’ve just stepped off your overnight flight from the U.S. Weary-eyed, you collect your bags and squeeze them into your diminutive Vauxhall rental. Driving on the left, you navigate innumerable roundabouts and zip down motorways whose numbers all begin with letters en route to your club. Not your home club—your home-away-from-home club. The one you […]
Great Courses of GB&I: Notts Golf Club
London is rightly lauded for the wealth of marvelous heathland courses— Sunningdale, St. George’s Hill, Swinley Forest, et al.—that lie a short distance to its south and west. But southern England doesn’t have a monopoly on the country’s outstanding “sand, heather, and gorse”-type layouts. Ganton and Woodhall Spa are two of Europe’s finest inland courses. […]
Great Courses of Britain & Ireland: Burnham & Berrow
Burnham & Berrow. It’s a quintessentially British name, tripping off the tongue all toffee, treacle, and tweed. It could be—should be—the name of an elite firm of London barristers or perhaps the official haberdasher to the Royal Family. Instead, it’s a golf club, nestled in a quiet corner of southwest England and blessed with a […]
Top 10 English Golfers Of All Time
England has produced 19 male professional major championship winners, who, among them, have captured 35 major victories, third behind the U.S. and Scotland. Four English women have claimed official women’s majors, and the country also has had an impressive list of accomplished amateurs. Considering that the country’s golf history could date back as far as […]
