Welcome to Golfweek’s Best rankings of the Top 50 Modern Courses in Great Britain and Ireland – built in or after 1960 – as determined by Golfweek’s Best Raters for 2021 (Pictured atop this story: Kingsbarns in Scotland).
The members of our course-ratings panel continually evaluate courses and rate them based on our 10 criteria. They also file a single, overall rating on each course. Those overall ratings on each course are averaged to produce a final rating for each course. Then each course is ranked against other courses in Great Britain and Ireland to produce the final rankings.
Golfweek also ranks Classic Courses in Great Britain and Ireland, and that list will be released next week. For more on top courses outside the U.S., check out the following lists:
Listed with each course below is its average ranking, location, designers and year opened.