The Top 100 in 10 Golf Podcast
 Join Nish & Chris on our journey to play the Top 100 golf courses in the UK & Ireland in just 10 years! 1 rank amateur duffer and 1 used-to-be-good-when-he-was-16 golfer, along with our co-host Jim We'll tell you how we manage to get on these golf courses, and give you an alternative guide to the most celebrated golf clubs, probably in the world, so you can see them from the perspective of a visitor playing a once-in-a-lifetime round there, as we head through this quest. We love golf, and are doing this for the pure joy of experiencing the best golf has to offer on our...
Old Tom Morris: The Man Behind the Old Course
Highly Commended, Best Sports Podcast, Independent Podcast Awards 2026... “An open invitation to the sport, demystifying bucket-list golf.”Â
Legend has it Old Tom Morris spilled a barrel of sand on the 10th green at Prestwick, couldn't pick it up, and accidentally started a practice greenkeepers still use 150 years later.
Last week we previewed the Old Course at St Andrews. Next week we review it. In between, there's a man whose shadow hangs over the whole place, and I'll be honest: before we played it, I knew the name and not much else. So this week I'm takin...
It's Happening! St Andrews Old Course Preview
Five hours after finding out we’d got on the Old Course at St Andrews, we hit record, and neither of us could stop grinning.
The Old Course is ranked number two on our list, it’s the course every golfer dreams of playing, and we were teeing off two days later. This is episode 92 of the Top 100 in 10 Golf Podcast, recorded before we played: two giddy golfers, a chaotic day of train bookings, and a lot of first-tee nerves.
In this episode:
Why St Andrews is the ultimate golfing pilgrimage, and why Chris’s only...Carnoustie Revisted: Does a Second Round Change the Ranking?
I (Nish) went back to Carnoustie with something to prove, and this time the wind never turned up.
Last time we played Carnoustie Golf Links, it was in the famous brutal winds of “Carnasty”, and I barely got to see the course. This time, at exactly the same time of year, the flags hung dead straight and the sun shone all day. For the first time I could take in the Championship Course the way it was designed, from a high-handicapper’s eye view. I’ve come down from an 18 handicap to 15.8 since my last visit, and it shows...
Josh Simpson (Ginger Golf) Played 652 Courses. We Asked About the Showers!
A world record holder, a motorhome he calls a Sherman tank, and a shower-rating system that took on a life of its own.
Josh Simpson, the Ginger Golfer, played 652 golf courses in a single calendar year. In this bonus episode, I skip the usual questions and ask about the stuff that makes you wince: the key that snapped in the lock (twice), the scrambled eggs he deeply regretted ordering, the hungover round after a night backstage with the Wombats, and the day his team made him play one more course, soaked through, two days before the finish.<...
We Took 10 Golfers to Lindrick Golf Club - a Ryder Cup venue. (Beyond The Top 100 #3)
Ryder Cup history, three tour stars as members, and a reputation for being a bit exclusive. So why did a society of ten amateurs get treated like old friends at Lindrick Golf Club?
We took our Top 100 Society to South Yorkshire for our third society day, to a course that sits outside our UK & Ireland list but ranked 82 in the English Top 100. This is the visitor's-eye view: the welcome, the course, and whether it deserves a place on your list.
In this episode:
The 1957 Ryder Cup, the last GB&I win, and the farmer...Looking Beyond The Top 100: A Golf Fanatic's Guide
Rory McIlroy just named Royal Birkdale, Sunningdale Old and Hankley Common as his three favourite courses in England, and all three are in Andy's top ten.Â
Andy (@28to8golf) counts down his top ten courses, from Hillside and St George's Hill to Turnberry and Sunningdale Old, and tells us why St Andrews Old Course only makes number six. Along the way he names the hidden gems beyond the Top 100: Pleasington near Blackburn, The Players Club in Bristol, Mold in Wales, plus short-course favourites like the Queen's at Gleneagles and Balcomie at Crail.Â
He also takes us...
Revisiting Swinley Forest: Did It Still Live Up To The Hype?
I called Swinley Forest my number one course in the UK the first time I played it. Then I got the chance to play it twice in one day — and I wanted to know if it would still hold up.
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When a society day at Swinley Forest had a last-minute dropout, I jumped at the chance to go back — 36 holes, shotgun start, and a four-course carvery lunch in the middle, the kind of tradition you find at clubs like Sunningdale, Royal St George's and Walton Heath. It was my firs...
Walton Heath Old & New Course Review: Baked in a Heatwave
We turned up to Walton Heath Golf Club in the middle of the UK's third heatwave of the summer, found out our booking had been binned, and ended up playing two intertwined, Ryder Cup-pedigree golf courses as just the two of us — in golden hour, on fairways baked so dry the ball was rolling 200+ yards.
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Was Wentworth Worth It? Wentworth West Course Review
Every golfer in Britain has seen Wentworth's first tee on TV. Almost nobody gets to stand on it. We did — and by the end of the round, we disagreed with each other about where it actually ranks.
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How the Solheim Cup Will Be Won or Lost, with Sophie Walker - Sky Sports Golf Analyst
Nelly Korda is the best player in the world — and she's lost her last two Solheim Cup singles matches. Sky Sports Golf's Sophie Walker joins us to explain why, and to put her name to a score.
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Sophie Walker is back on the show ahead of the twentieth So...
The One We Raised ÂŁ785 At: The NISH Invitational Review
This is our review of our Annual Charity Golf Day - the NISH Invitational, where this year we raised nearly ÂŁ800 for the British Liver Trust
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Walton Heath Golf Club, Part 1: The Most Significant Clubhouse We've Seen
WeI've never dedicated a whole episode to a clubhouse before. Walton Heath Golf Club changed that.
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We played this Surrey Heathland course in a back-to-back pairs event — old course one day, new course the next — but by the time I'd walked its corridors, I knew the clubhouse itself need...
Formby Golf Club Review: Classy and Unforgettable
We didn't expect Formby Golf Club to feel like this. After playing our way through England's Golf Coast, we assumed we knew what to expect — heather, gorse, that classic Southport links look. Formby threw that out the window.
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In this episode we review Formby Golf Club, ranked among th...
Wentworth Golf Club Preview: The One Nish Manifested!
Nish manifested a round at Wentworth on one of our earliest episodes — and this week, it actually happened.
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We're in the car on the way to Virginia Water to play the West Course — Burma Road — as a member's guest, the only way on at one of Britain's most gated...
Liphook Golf Club Review: A Heathland With The Best Greens We've Ever Played
It chucked it down for all 18 holes — and we still walked off calling these the best greens we've played on any of our 28 Top 100 courses.
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Liphook Golf Club sits quietly in the Surrey/Hampshire sand belt at #79 in the Top 100 — and almost nobody outside it seems to know. This...
100th Episode Special: Two Years, 28 Courses & One Betrayal at Loch Lomond
One hundred episodes in, and Chris drops the bombshell we've been sitting on: he played Loch Lomond — Scotland's most exclusive golf club — and he did it without us.
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Two years. 100 weekly episodes. 28 courses ticked off the Top 100 (29 if you're Chris). To mark the milestone, Jim takes the hosting chai...
Swinley Forest Golf Club: Heathland Golf At Its Best?
Nish has got a new #1. After 26 courses on this journey, Swinley Forest just did something nothing else has managed — it knocked our long-standing favourite off top spot, and we're still buzzing about it.
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Jim hosts solo this week to talk through a round soaked in mystique: a members-only Be...
The Open 2026 Tips: The 275/1 Longshot at Royal Birkdale
The Open is back on home turf at Royal Birkdale, and we've brought in a mate who actually backs golf for a living to tell us where the smart money's going this week.
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Our good friend Harbs (Harbs7Golf) returns with his three picks for the Claret Jug — in...
Walton Heath Old & New Preview: Two Courses, One Rivalry
We're doing something we've never done before — playing two golf courses back to back at the same club, and pitting the "old money vs new money" of Surrey heathland against each other.
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This episode we're previewing both the Old Course (ranked 39, an ever-present in the world's top 100 since ra...
Formby Golf Club Preview: The Course the Sea Is Trying to Take Back
Formby Golf Club is disappearing — and that's not even the strangest thing about it.
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We're heading to this Lancashire (or is it Merseyside?) links ahead of our round, and there's a lot more going on here than the rankings suggest. Four legendary architects have shaped this course — Willie Park...
Lanark Golf Club: The Oldest Inland Golf Course in the World (Beyond The Top 100 #2)
Lanark Golf Club doesn't try to impress you. No grand entrance, no resort gloss — just a golf course that's been played on the same patch of common land since October 1851, making it the oldest inland golf course in the world.
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We sit down with general manager Andy Romer to...
Castletown Golf Links Review | Is the Isle of Man Worth the Ferry Trip?
We took a ferry. We crossed the Irish Sea. We played Castletown Golf Links on the Isle of Man, ranked 93 in the Top 100 GB & Ireland, with the club's general manager Andi as our playing partner and tour guide. It turned out to be one of the most spectacular days we've had on this entire mission.
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Swinley Forest Golf Club Preview with Alex Katter
Swinley Forest Golf Club sits in the mid-20s of the UK rankings — and almost nobody outside of golf's inner circles has heard of it. No website worth mentioning. No honours boards. No annual membership fee. A halfway hut staffed by someone who's served maybe a hundred members in 25 years. And according to Harry Colt, his "least bad" course.
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Liphook Golf Club Preview | Why Have We Never Heard Of It?
A course designed by a man who'd never designed one before, where your tee time might be decided by a ball dropping down a chute, and where one approach shot lands in a completely different county. Welcome to Liphook Golf Club.
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Ranked 75th in the UK & Ireland, Liphook...
Castletown Golf Links Preview — Old Tom Morris & a Drive Over a Ravine | Isle of Man
Old Tom Morris got on a boat at 70, arrived on a windswept rock in the Irish Sea, and built a golf course. 130 years later, we're following him over to the Isle of Man — and it's our first trip off the British mainland.Â
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In this preview, Nish, Chris and Jim...
Burnham & Berrow Golf Club Review
We played Burnham & Berrow Golf Club in the worst conditions of our Top 100 journey — and both of us want to go back.
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Ranked #62 alongside Hankley Common and Gullane, this is a proper links test: variable lies, undulating greens that punish any lack of concentration, and a back nine th...
The Rankings Earthquake: What Just Happened to the Top 100?
Something seismic just happened in Top 100 world — and we couldn't let it slide without an emergency session.
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Nish is joined by James (a returning guest and one of the fastest Top 100 hunters around) to dig into the 2025 rankings update that's set the golf world on fire: a 40-place su...
Wallasey Golf Club - The Sleeping Giant of English Links Golf
Wallasey Golf Club was out of the Top 100. Now it's ranked 99th and accelerating — and after playing it on a stunning April Tuesday, we think it's heading a lot higher than that.
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In this episode we sit down with course manager John McLoughlin, the man who called Wallasey a...
Sophie Walker — Sky Sports Golf Presenter & Former LET Pro | Bonus Episode
Sophie Walker is one of the best guests we've ever had on this show. She's the head analyst for Sky Sports Golf, a former LET tour pro with over 150 events and five Open Championships to her name — including the first women's ever played at the Old Course, St Andrews. She's also ace. And she lives a mile down the road from Nish, which helped.
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Wallasey Golf Club Preview — The Course That Invented Stableford (And Saved Amateur Golf)
Every golfer has played Stableford. Almost none of us know it was invented on the 2nd fairway at Wallasey Golf Club — by a man who got so fed up tearing up his scorecard, he changed golf forever.
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Get some details about our Irish Trip more de...
Burnham & Berrow Golf Club Preview — Our 20-Man Ryder Cup Society Weekend
We're taking 20 golfers to one of the most historic links courses in England for a full Ryder Cup-style weekend — 10v10 match play, two-man scramble, joker pairings, and a pub takeover.
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Get some details about our Irish Trip more de...
Delamere Forest Golf Club Review | Why Is This Course Only Ranked 95th?
In this episode of the Top 100 in 10 Golf Podcast, we review Delamere Forest Golf Club — the nearest Top 100 golf course to us, and one of the most fascinating golf courses we’ve played on our journey through the Top 100 courses in the UK and Ireland.
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Get some deta...
Hillside Golf Club Review: Is This England’s Most Welcoming Top 100 Links?
We review our round at Hillside Golf Club, one of the Top 100 golf courses in the UK and Ireland, and one of the standout links courses on England’s Golf Coast. In this episode, we break down the full Hillside experience — the welcome, the clubhouse, practice facilities, course condition, signature holes, back nine reputation, greens, value for money, and whether Hillside deserves its place alongside Royal Birkdale and Southport & Ainsdale.
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How We Accidentally Ended Up Organising an Irish Golf Trip
We've been banging our heads against a wall trying to get onto Irish golf courses for six months. Tee times selling out in minutes. Green fees north of €500. Chris assuring me his Irish roots would open doors. They did not.
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Then Jared from Irish Fairways called me. He'd be...
Delamere Forest Golf Club Preview — Plus We've Entered The Creator Cup
Delamere Forest Golf Club preview. And yes, we've also entered Rick Shiels and Peter Finch's Creator Cup.Â
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Delamere Forest Golf Club is one of the most unusual courses on the entire Top 100 list. A Herbert Fowler Heathland design sitting in Cheshire — completely unlike anything else in the North of...
The Back 9 Greg Norman Raves About - Hillside Golf Club Preview
Our 2026 season kicks off at Hillside Golf Club — the links course sandwiched between Royal Birkdale and Southport & Ainsdale that somehow never gets the credit it deserves.
Greg Norman called its back nine the best in Britain. Jack Nicklaus played his first professional event in the British Isles here. It's hosted the British Masters and the DP World Tour. And yet — most golfers overlook it completely.
In this episode Nish & Chris preview what's waiting for them at Hillside: the dunes, the mature pines, the thick rough, and a back nine with serious ambitions. They dig into the...
We Played Conwy Golf Club in 40mph Winds… and Loved It (Beyond the Top 100 #1)
We kicked off a brand-new series — Beyond the Top 100 — with a course that proves why lists don’t tell the full story. In brutal Welsh links weather (driving rain, sleet and 40+ mph winds), we played Conwy Golf Club, perched at the mouth of the River Conwy under the Great Orme — and somehow… we loved every minute.
In this episode, Conwy’s General Manager Matthew Parsley explains what makes the club special: the welcome, the standards, the scenery, and the championship history that runs through its DNA — from honours boards...
Inside Irish Golf: Power, Prestige & The Tee-Time Crisis
Ireland is seen by many to be the spiritual home of bucket-list golf.
So why is it becoming almost impossible to actually play?
In this episode, we sit down with Sharon Smurfit — former Director of Golf at The K Club and one of the most connected voices in Irish golf — to unpack what’s really happening behind the scenes.
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From sold-out tee sheets and soaring green fees to the “links bias” shaping Top 100 lists, Sharon gives us an insider’s...
The “Straight Putt” Trick: Read Break Like a Pro (Zen Golf Putting Masterclass)
In Part 2 of my Zen Golf visit in Sheffield, Will (Head of Education at Zen Golf) gives me a putting lesson that completely changes how you read greens, control pace, and stop guessing the break.
Instead of obsessing over mechanics, we learn how to “see gravity” first — by finding the straight putt (12 o’clock) using a simple clock-face method, then reverse-engineering the ball’s entry point from the hole back to the ball. It’s a game-changing way to build intent, commit to the line, and massivel...
The Simulator That Moves Under Your Feet (ZenGolf x TrackMan) - Royal County Down Indoors
What if your golf simulator didn’t just show the shot — but made you feel it under your feet?
In this episode of the Top 100 Golf Podcast, we get exclusive first access to the ZenGolf Swing Stage, a groundbreaking golf simulator platform that moves beneath you to replicate real on-course lies, slopes, and stances — fully integrated with TrackMan.
We take this technology inside one of the world’s greatest courses, Royal County Down, and test whether indoor golf can finally deliver true...
