Ranking the world’s top 10 composite golf courses

Here are 10 of the best composite courses – and a couple honorable mentions – to host some of golf’s biggest events through the years.

Walton Heath

Ryder Cup, British Masters

An aerial photograph of Walton Heath Golf Club on the North Downs, about 18 miles south east of London. Photo by David Goddard/Getty Images

Just South of London is the 36-hole Walton Heath, where the Old and the New have joined to make a composite (primarily of the Old). The Henry Fowler design has played host to the 1981 Ryder Cup and several iterations of the European Tour’s European Open, the 2011 British Senior Open and, more recently, the 2018 British Masters (16 holes from the Old and two from the New).