Europe's Top Courses

Golf World this month published a list of what it regards as Europe's Top 100 courses:

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Banchory Squash Veterans still have a lot of work to do - we've only played 10 of these courses on our various overseas tours:

• San Lorenzo
• Sotogrande (Old)
• Antalya (PGA Sultan)
• Quinta do Lago (South & North)
• Carya
• Cornelia (Prince)
• Abama
• La Reserva de Sotogrande
• San Roque (Old)

I'm sure many of us have also played other courses on the list individually (La Manga for me) but it's amazing how few we've done as a group.

What's also interesting is the changing geography - at one time, all the good courses were on the Iberian peninsula, but, looking at the map, they're all over Europe now:

• Spain (18)
• France (17)
• Portugal (13)
• Netherlands (8)
• Sweden (8)
• Turkey (5)
• Italy (5)
• Belgium (5)
• Denmark (5)
• Germany (4)
• Switzerland (2)
• Austria (2)
• Finland (2)
• Norway (1)
• Estonia (1)
• Slovakia (1)
• Slovenia (1)
• Greece (1)
• Bulgaria (1)

We've been to Spain, Portugal and Turkey but France is the obvious omission from the top of this chart.