The Golf Pilgrim Top 100

Must golfers come to Ireland for a Links experience, but Lough Erne offers something different.  Designed by 6-time major winner Sir Nick Faldo, and opened in 2009, it's been named in the top ten par…

Sky Sports golf commentator Ewen Murray has worked and played at the world's most famous courses.  But ask him his favourite….and he'll tell you to go to a links course in East Lothian, which more il…

After a cameo appearance in our Royal Troon episode, Henrik Stenson is back to discuss the Swedish course that bears his name.

The former Open champion has teamed up with architect Christian Lundin to…

Fancy a round at the exclusive course which hosts the Scottish Open? 

Renaissance is a private members' club for the wealthy.  But when the Golf Pilgrim played with Jerry Sarvadi, he suggested anyone …

A hundred years ago, the Åland Islands were the subject of an international dispute that had to be settled by the League of Nations.  Are they Finnish or Swedish?

Well, for the last century, the answe…

An all-star edition in which we visit one of the world's best-known courses and talk to two famous figures who know it well.

Royal Troon is a regular host of The Open Championship, and in 2016, Henrik…

A tale of two courses…one which has mysteriously slipped out of Europe's Top 100 list, while its once lesser-ranked twin has overtaken it.

At one point Kytäjä’s South-East course was rated as high as …

Western Gailes, on a narrow strip of land between the Ayrshire coast and a railway line is a tough test for any golfer.  That's why it's been used as an Open qualifying venue and recently staged the …

Finland is often rated as the happiest nation in the world.  Is it because of its high standard of living? Is it the beauty of the landscape, or because Finns spend so much time in saunas? Or could i…

There are so many highly rated courses in this part of England, that Camberley Heath probably doesn't get the attention it deserves, even though it's in England's Top 100.

But this Harry Colt heathlan…

We're publishing our review of Estonia's top course on a famous day in the country's golf history.  It's Day One of The Open championship at Royal Portrush, and, for the first time, an Estonian golfe…

When a young Scottish surgeon moved across the border to north-east England in the early 1870s, he was shocked o discover that there was nowhere for him to play his favourite sport.  And so The Durha…

Breaking News alert!  The Golf Pilgrim takes on the BBC…as Neil goes head-to-head with BBC TV news presenter Christian Fraser in a matchplay knockout contest.

Neutral territory somewhere in central En…

The grass may be green and as well-manicured as any we’ve seen this year, but it certainly doesn’t grow under the feet of the management at El Paraiso between Marbella and Estepona on the Costa Del S…

An exclusive, private club in one of Spain’s most upmarket resorts - but a small number of visitors are allowed to play at Las Brisas, especially in summer. 

So you can follow in the footsteps of Sean…

Opened in 2000, Kingsbarns has quickly established itself as a course on a par with some of the greatest links courses in Scotland.  Every year, it jointly hosts the Alfred Dunhill Pro-Am event along…

Only five years old, but Dumbarnie Links blends seamlessly into the Fife coastline and has already made it into the top 50 courses in GB & Ireland. 

It's a pay-and-play course so visitors are treated …

If the bunkers don't get you at Lundin, the burns surely will.

Lundin is in the St Andrews belt and its views, history and quirky holes make it a worthy destination for those wanting more Fife golf du…

What should make you more nervous on the 1st tee at Elie?

A blind tee shot in front of a busy clubhouse terrace, or the fact that a periscope from a decommissioned Royal Navy Submarine is used to see …

Golfer's tip.  Don't set your Sat Nav for Kilmarnock!  Golfers from the inland town moved their club eight miles to Barassie Beach on the Ayrshire coast a century ago, but retained its name.

Neil take…