Courses

Long-time Vic Open host on the Bellarine Peninsula, ranked around No. 32 in Australia and rated among the country's top-five public-access courses; renowned for its par-3 set.

Opened in 2004 as the inland companion to the dune-hugging Beach Course, the Creek Course was co-designed by Nick Faldo and Tony Cashmore in a rolling, sandbelt-style routing and has ranked among Australia's top public-access layouts.

A member-owned private club on 700 acres of Wyoming ranch land, 3 Creek Ranch's Rees Jones course incorporates natural creeks, wetlands, and native grassland with Teton Mountain views, and Golf Digest has ranked it the top course in Wyoming.

Built in 1985 with television broadcast in mind, this Shoichi Suzuki and Ken Sato design hosted the Japan Golf Tour's ABC Championship every year from 1988 until the event was discontinued after its 2023 edition.

The only French course designed by Dutch golfer Joan Frederik Dudok van Heel, its Le Val course hosted the European Tour's Open de Saint-Omer from 2003 to 2013, playing to a par-73 routing through the wooded Aa valley.

Routed down the lower slopes of Mount Teide as part of The Ritz-Carlton, Abama resort, the course drops more than 300 metres in elevation and is planted with over 20,000 palm trees among more than 300 subtropical species; the par-3 7th, played across a deep ravine to a guarded green, is the course's best-known hole.

Historic mid-Wales links begun in 1892 with nine flowerpots for holes; the spiritual home of golf writer Bernard Darwin — first club captain in 1897, later president — who called it 'the course that my soul loved best of all the courses in the world.'

Laid out in 1908 by six-time Open champion Harry Vardon on the Llŷn Peninsula, Abersoch runs twelve holes of true dune links before finishing over gentler parkland ground added decades later. Cardigan Bay sits on one side of the course and the Snowdonia mountains on the other.

Formed in 1911, Aberystwyth engaged six-time Open champion Harry Vardon to design its eighteen holes on the headland at Bryn-y-Môr above the town; the course opened for play in 1913, officially inaugurated by fellow Open champion George Duncan after Vardon withdrew following his father's death. The routing looks out over Cardigan Bay from high ground overlooking the university town.

A Golden Age design set between Lake Teganuma and the Tone River, Abiko was renovated by Brian Silva and Kai Goalby in 2012 and is ranked 14th among Golf Digest's Best Golf Courses in Asia.

Golf has been played at Aboyne since 1874, with the present Royal Deeside site adopted in 1905 and extended to eighteen holes by Archie Simpson in 1908; Martin Hawtree added five holes in a 1991 redesign. The layout shifts from wooded parkland on the front nine, finishing by the Loch of Aboyne, into heathland on the back nine.

Peter Harradine's National Course hosted the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship and its HSBC-sponsored successor for sixteen straight editions from 2006 through 2021 before the event relocated to Yas Links, and its floodlit back nine remains one of the region's signature night-golf setups.

Laid out in the late 1990s by David Mezzacane within a nature reserve near the medieval village of Acaya, the course was substantially remodeled by Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry starting in 2007 and remains the only 18-hole course in the Salento peninsula.

Canadian architect Jeff Howes routed the Championship Course through streams, forest clearings, and dramatic rock formations in the Lower Austrian foothills, building on an original 1995 nine that was extended to 18 holes in 1998. It has ranked among Austria's top three courses in golfer polls every year since opening.

A luxurious parkland estate around a 19th-century manor house on the River Maigue, completely reimagined by Tom Fazio in 2016-2017 (reopened 2018); host of the 2027 Ryder Cup, the competition's centenary edition.

An 18-hole course carved through Almeria's arid ravine country near Pulpi Bay, defined by six large lakes and more than 100 bunkers.

Schmidt-Curley Design built the course with PGA Tour player Fred Couples in 2002 as a private club on Ak-Chin tribal land; the Ak-Chin Indian Community reacquired the property in 2010 and reopened it for public daily-fee play. It has since served as a U.S. Open local qualifying site and an early-stage Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying School venue.

The Royal and Ancient recognizes Jadarsvollur as the most northerly 18-hole golf course in the world, playing across moorland with rock outcroppings near the Arctic Circle. It has hosted the Arctic Open, an event allowing midnight-sun tee times, since 1986.

Opened as Al Ain's first grass golf course, the Peter Harradine design started as nine holes laid inside the club's horse-racing track and grew to a full 18-hole championship layout by 2010, with a front-nine renovation reopening in 2016. Its par-5 stretch includes one of the UAE's longest holes, at 678 yards.

Peter Harradine's design threads Al Hamra's par-72 layout around four connected lagoons that merge into the Arabian Gulf; it became the first course in the UAE's Northern Emirates to host a DP World Tour event when the Ras Al Khaimah Championship debuted there in 2022, and the tour has returned every year since.

Opened in September 2022 on Atlantic-facing land between Tangier and Assilah as part of the Hilton Tangier Al Houara Resort & Spa, the course is designed by Graham Marsh and Vijay Singh rather than Stirling & Martin as sometimes cited. Top100GolfCourses ranks it second in Morocco and fifth in Africa, and Troon took over its management and course operations.

Kyle Phillips, fresh off Kingsbarns and Yas Links, opened this Atlas Mountains-facing course in 2010, weaving rectangular reflecting pools inspired by Marrakech's Menara Gardens through a modern desert-resort routing. The par-73 layout stretches to roughly 7,184 yards from the back tees.

Oman's first links-style course, opened in 2012 along a two-kilometer stretch of coastline as the centerpiece of the Al Mouj waterfront community, has hosted the European/DP World Tour's Oman Open and ranks #2 in the 2025 Middle East regional rankings behind only Yas Links.

The first Nicklaus Design course built in the UAE, Al Zorah routes through more than a million square meters of protected mangrove forest along the Ajman coast. The par-3 6th demands a carry over a lagoon to a peninsula green, and the par-5 15th is a double dogleg squeezed by water on both sides.

Ranked Finland's top course in 2023 following a EUR 2.5 million Philip Spogard redesign that wove Slottssundet Bay into nearly every hole beside the 14th-century Kastelholm Castle; it hosted the Ladies European Tour in 2022.

A par-72 links-style layout stretching over 7,400 yards through 30-foot dunes and waste areas on New Providence's southwestern tip. Since 2015 it has hosted Tiger Woods' Hero World Challenge annually, making it one of the most-televised courses in the Caribbean.

Part of the European Tour Properties network since 2016, Albatross hosted the Ladies European Tour's Raiffeisenbank Prague Golf Masters in 2011 and 2012 and has been the regular home of the European Tour's Czech Masters since 2014.

Tom Fazio's only Washington state design opened in 2001 on the former Boeing family's Aldarra Farms property east of Seattle and remains a private club with no homes lining its fairways.

England's second-oldest maritime heathland course, Aldeburgh's original 1884 routing by Open champion Willie Fernie and John Thompson was later refined by fellow champions Willie Park Jr. and J.H. Taylor, with Harry Colt and Charles Alison adding the demanding closing holes in the 1920s. Members Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Millicent Fawcett helped establish equal playing rights for women from the club's earliest years.

Greg Norman's first course in Egypt, the par-72 stretches to 7,217 yards through streams and rock outcrops off the Cairo-Alexandria desert road, with the Pyramids of Giza visible from parts of the property.