Continental Europe's Top 20 golf courses
Following Golf Monthly's Top 100 UK and Ireland Course Rankings, we've introduced a list of our Top 20 European Courses. View pictures and reviews of those that made the list, as well as future contenders.
1. Valderrama
Architect: Robert Trent Jones Snr GF: €300-€320 W: valderrama.com
Valderrama’ s superb design and its unmatched conditioning, history, wow factor and the sheer spine-tingling experience of visiting ensures it remains the benchmark by which all European courses are judged. There may be more difficult, scenic or better-value courses in our list but, when all the criteria were viewed together, the only course on the continent to have hosted the Ryder Cup emerged as our clear number one.
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