Belton woods

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

FOREST ROW, EAST SUSSEX

From cosy country hotels to far-flung paradise retreats, these GH -tested and approved spas will deliver the me-time you deserve

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

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