Golfweek’s Best 2023: Top 50 modern courses in Great Britain and Ireland

Golfweek’s Best Twenty23 Rankings of the Top 50 Modern Courses In Great Britain and Ireland – Built in or After 1960 – as determined By Golfweek’s Best Raters.

Our course-ratings panel members continuously evaluate courses and give them their grades based on our 10 criteria. Each course is also given a single overall rating. These overall ratings are combined to give each course a final rating. To determine the final rankings, each course is ranked in relation to other courses in Great Britain or Ireland.

Below is a listing of each course’s average ranking, location, designers, and year it was opened.

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