Top 10 Best Golf Courses in the World

The birthplace of golf dating to the 15th century, where the Swilcan Bridge, the Road Hole, and the Hell Bunker have humbled every great player who ever lived.

Clinging to the Pacific coastline with jaw-dropping ocean views on nearly every hole — the par-3 7th and the 18th along the cliffs are the most photographed holes in golf.

Alister MacKenzie's masterpiece on the Melbourne Sandbelt features fiendishly contoured greens and firm, fast conditions that test shotmaking more than any course in the Southern Hemisphere.

The most beautiful course in the world with a par-3 16th that demands a 230-yard carry over the Pacific — so exclusive it dropped out of the AT&T rotation rather than diversify its membership.

Nestled beneath the Mourne Mountains with views of Dundrum Bay, this links course combines breathtaking beauty with blind tee shots and gorse-lined fairways that punish anything less than precision.

One of the five founding member clubs of the USGA, with windswept links-style terrain on Long Island that has produced some of the most brutally difficult US Opens in history.

Home to the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers — the oldest golf club in the world — with a brilliant layout of concentric loops that ensures the wind hits from every direction.

Tom Doak's dramatic clifftop course perched 140 meters above the Pacific on the North Island, with fairways that seem to float between sky and sea on finger-like promontories.

Designed by Charles Alison in 1932, Hirono is Japan's top-ranked course with ravines, ponds, and pine-framed holes that blend Western design philosophy with the serenity of Japanese landscape.

The birthplace of golf dating to the 15th century, where the Swilcan Bridge, the Road Hole, and the Hell Bunker have humbled every great player who ever lived.

Clinging to the Pacific coastline with jaw-dropping ocean views on nearly every hole — the par-3 7th and the 18th along the cliffs are the most photographed holes in golf.

Alister MacKenzie's masterpiece on the Melbourne Sandbelt features fiendishly contoured greens and firm, fast conditions that test shotmaking more than any course in the Southern Hemisphere.

The most beautiful course in the world with a par-3 16th that demands a 230-yard carry over the Pacific — so exclusive it dropped out of the AT&T rotation rather than diversify its membership.

Nestled beneath the Mourne Mountains with views of Dundrum Bay, this links course combines breathtaking beauty with blind tee shots and gorse-lined fairways that punish anything less than precision.

One of the five founding member clubs of the USGA, with windswept links-style terrain on Long Island that has produced some of the most brutally difficult US Opens in history.

Home to the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers — the oldest golf club in the world — with a brilliant layout of concentric loops that ensures the wind hits from every direction.

Tom Doak's dramatic clifftop course perched 140 meters above the Pacific on the North Island, with fairways that seem to float between sky and sea on finger-like promontories.

Designed by Charles Alison in 1932, Hirono is Japan's top-ranked course with ravines, ponds, and pine-framed holes that blend Western design philosophy with the serenity of Japanese landscape.