46 Architects’ Choice Top 100 Golf Courses At the start of the ‘Architects’ Choice’ project, we anticipated that, because of the electorate, our rankings would probably differ a fair bit from most of the other polls published by magazines or online. That turned out to be true, though not always in the ways we had anticipated. But certainly, there are courses that, for obvious reasons, resonate more with golf designers than with the golf world in general. First on the list is North Berwick, which, at number 18 in our list, is significantly higher than in any other ranking I have seen. It’s easy to see why for a profession that, in general, claims devotion to the mantra of fun golf, and to MacKenzie’s thirteen principles. Few courses offer a more fun day out than the West Links, with quirk aplenty and two or three of the most famous holes in golf. The Pit hole, which requires players to pitch over an ancient stone wall to get to the green, is perhaps the epitome of quirk, while the legendary fifteenth, the Redan, has surely inspired more imitations than any other hole in golf. Few architects have not built a Redan-type green at some point in their careers. Adam Lawrence highlights some of the lesserknown courses in our Top 100, and picks out a few that might have made the list The and the that got away... ones ones that didn’t
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