Oulton hall

Joel Tadman visits an area of the UK where you’re spoiled for choice when it comes to fine golf courses touched by the design genius of Alister MacKenzie

Jeremy Ellwood spends a couple of nights with Golf Monthly courses colleague Rob Smith at this fine County Antrim golf hotel with a rapidly growing reputation

Jeremy Ellwood discovers that Penha Longa’s 14th-century monastic heritage really does create a sanctuary-like feel amid five-star luxury

Two great houses, rich with fascinating history and beautifully apportioned, put the county on the map

Some former hosts of golf’s greatest team event are perhaps slightly surprising...

AN AT-A-GLANCE RUNDOWN OF THE LIST, DEMONSTRATING THE INCREDIBLE DEPTH AND VARIETY TO THE COURSES OF ENGLAND