🇬🇧 Golf Writer and Traveller ✍🏻 👨✈️- Cleeve Hill/Saunton 🛫🌍🛬 one ⛳️ at a time…
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The 12th hole on the Hotchkin at Woodhall Spa is one of the worlds great par-3’s; a do or die hole that raises the heart rate and makes a shot well played an unforgettable experience. It has been likened to the postage stamp but imho it’s much more beastly.. #golftwitter
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Fun fact - Charles Mackenzie, the younger brother of Dr. Alister was also a golf architect. Much less prolific + his work didn’t revolutionise golf course design quite like his brothers, but courses like @fulfordgolfclub demonstrate that he shared his brothers eye #golftwitter
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My game has been struggling. I ruptured my Achilles in April and my form has suffered since coming back. A lesson with @AlexClappGolf and a putting tip from a friend and today golf felt the easiest thing in the world, culminating in my joint best ever round. Golf 👊 #golftwitter
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Having just played the beautiful Reigate Heath today, it had me wondering about my favourite 🏴 nine hole courses. My top 5 I’ve played would be 1. Royal Worlington 2. Reigate Heath 3. Alnmouth Village 4. Burnham & Berrow Channel 5. Flempton. What have I missed? #golftwitter
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Hollinwell - one of the finest inland tests in GB&I. Angles, punitive bunkering, borders of effervescent heather and truly characterful putting surfaces. A real cadence to the round. Plenty of half par holes. What a place 🤝 #golftwitter
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Burnham & Berrow - Channel Course 📍
Another reminder that gems hide in plain sight. Don’t be persuaded that this course is not worthy of your time when compared to its big sibling. To the contrary, many of the challenges mirror the big course in a reduced form. #golftwitter
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East Berkshire 📍 - Crafted in 1903 by Peter Paxton. This place is ace. Why I think East Berks is lesser known? The shadow effect - there’s some pretty high ranking neighbours around here. PP’s lack of architectural back catalogue, and the course length (a shorty but a goodie).
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I get to call it my second home so I’m biased of course, but there are few treats in golf greater than a twilight loop on the East course @SauntonGolfClub - One of England’s very finest links that always shows off in the lowering light.. #golftwitter
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I really enjoyed being able to contribute some content for this article and the process of contributing to the ranking.
My takeaway; GB&I is awash with absolutely breathtaking golf courses and we are very lucky to have so much depth of quality on these isles.
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This GB&I Top 100 surprised me. I knew there'd be 2 new entries from courses that opened in 2025, but there was more movement in the list than I expected. Key moves for @RCDgolfclub @Royal_Porthcawl @HankleyC @FormbyGolfClub @Rosapenna1893
Next 100 (image 2) is full of class too
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Yet another example of Welsh golf offering some real interest and value. @MaestegGolfClub was in the 50’s on our last Welsh Top 80 @TheTodaysGolfer. A James Braid moorland affair of considerable charm 🤝 #golftwitter
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An improbable golfing landscape at times, but that is one of the finest charms of this place. Cleeve Hill; a golf course truly like no other.
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There have been changes afoot since my last visit to Coxmoor 27 years ago! Creative Golf Design in collaboration with Ben Cumberland the Head Greenkeeper here have delivered a heathland transformation. Add in the new clubhouse and Coxmoor is barely recognisable! #golftwitter
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Eclipse 2026 - the first cloud sighted in the Cotswolds in about 10 days 👍 #nailedit #eclipse2026
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Mad Swans in the Mendips 🏴 📍- If this is a strand that encompasses the future of golf then Im all in. A beautiful 12-hole golf course designed by @golfarchitects and delivered as a wider recreational facility, this is the kind of place I’d love to spend more time #golftwitter
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There is always a particular view or vista on a golf course that lingers. For me at Cleeve Hill it is the framing of the scene from the 9th tee, where the contours and shadows entwine and the lone tree stands sentry, silhouetted on the skyline.
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A pal played Hunstanton yesterday and sent photos of the new par-3.
It made me realise how fond I was of the old hole, not because of the blindness, but because of the cleverness of the routing to reveal the hole from the other side prior to playing it.. Thoughts?
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Northcliffe Course, North Foreland 📍
Peter Allis was particular fond of the Fowler/Simpson designed Northcliffe course at North Foreland. 18 par-3’s measuring a total of 1647 yards pack an enormous amount of architectural interest in such a small parcel of land.
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Opening your curtains to this view is the thing dreams are made of. That putting green to the right is for guests to use.. I spent three hours on there last night. I’ll be back @Princesgolfclub 🤝
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That was some day taking on Shore & Dunes at Princes from the very back tees for the Black & Gold Invitational. 7300 yards of pure summer links crispness. It’s days like these that make me question anyone who says they don’t enjoy links golf. Golf in its purest form #golftwitter
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