The Top 100 in 10 Golf Podcast

Nish, Chris & Jim

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 fair isles. We're sure to meet some kind, fun and interesting people on our travels, and we want to share that journey with you.

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Today · 53 min
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. This episode is powered by Fourball Draws - where you can win a fourball on some elite courses for just a fiver - visit fourballs.co.uk and use code TOP100 to buy 2 or more tickets and get one absolutely free! 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 week we review it with a member, Oscar, who talks us through his top three holes (including the two new ones from the redesign), the greens running 12.6 on the stimp, and the digital twin technology he's building to let you play a course before you've set foot on it. Also in this episode: Andrew's cricket-glove rain hack, a par three that cost Chris and Nish 11 shots between them, the seventh hole that straddles two counties, and why a summer twilight round here might be the best £135 in Top 100 golf. The one thing that actually helps us reach more golfers is you hitting follow right now — it takes two seconds and it genuinely makes the difference. Send us a message Support the show Learn more about our journey on our website Top100.in10.co.uk You can even sign up to our podcast mailing list on the website and get a limited edition Top 100 in 10 ball marker when you complete your profile Or follow our live journey on Instagram @top100in10 or Tiktok
July 28 · 56 min
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. This episode is powered by Fourball Draws - where you can win a fourball on some elite courses for just a fiver - visit fourballs.co.uk and use code TOP100 to buy 2 or more tickets and get one absolutely free! 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 chair and puts us under the microscope: the episode-one memories, the courses we'd play again because we got them wrong first time (Cruden Bay, S&A, West Lancs), whether Silloth has finally been knocked off Chris's No.1 spot, the courses that blew us away when we least expected it (Delamere, Gullane, Ganton), and inside Loch Lomond's locker room — the plushest place in golf. Plus what's coming: Wentworth with the BMW PGA stands up, Royal Birkdale after The Open, the Old Course, and a date with the Postage Stamp at Troon. Thank you for every listen, message and follow over 100 episodes. The one thing that actually helps us reach more golfers is you hitting follow right now — here's to the next hundred. Send us a message Support the show Learn more about our journey on our website Top100.in10.co.uk You can even sign up to our podcast mailing list on the website and get a limited edition Top 100 in 10 ball marker when you complete your profile Or follow our live journey on Instagram @top100in10 or Tiktok
July 21 · 47 min
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. This episode is powered by Fourball Draws - where you can win a fourball on some elite courses for just a fiver - visit fourballs.co.uk and use code TOP100 to buy 2 or more tickets and get one absolutely free! Jim hosts solo this week to talk through a round soaked in mystique: a members-only Berkshire heathland club near Ascot, ranked 17th in the UK & Ireland and 52nd in the world, that plays winter rules all year round and didn't have a scorecard until the 1990s. We cover the signature hole challenge on the par-3 4th, Chris's putting collapse, the best collection of par 3s either of us has played, and the moment the scores came in — before the reveal that Swinley Forest is now Nish's new #1, ahead of Trump International. The one thing that actually helps us reach more golfers is you hitting follow right now. Send us a message Support the show Learn more about our journey on our website Top100.in10.co.uk You can even sign up to our podcast mailing list on the website and get a limited edition Top 100 in 10 ball marker when you complete your profile Or follow our live journey on Instagram @top100in10 or Tiktok
July 14 · 40 min
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. This episode is powered by Fourball Draws - where you can win a fourball on some elite courses for just a fiver - visit fourballs.co.uk and use code TOP100 to buy 2 or more tickets and get one absolutely free! Our good friend Harbs (Harbs7Golf) returns with his three picks for the Claret Jug — including a 16/1 "massive value" favourite, a forgotten major winner nobody's talking about, and a 275/1 outsider with a genuine cash-out strategy behind it. We also dig into what it actually takes to qualify for the Open (the Bryan Brothers, Peter Finch, and a wild story from Burnham & Berrow final qualifying), catch up on the Nish Invitational (£750 raised for the British Liver Trust), and open a space at our Top 100 in 10 Society event at Lindrick. If you're enjoying the show, hit follow — it tells Apple/Spotify you're into this content and helps us reach more golfers. Top 100 in 10 Society (free to join) Send us a message Support the show Learn more about our journey on our website Top100.in10.co.uk You can even sign up to our podcast mailing list on the website and get a limited edition Top 100 in 10 ball marker when you complete your profile Or follow our live journey on Instagram @top100in10 or Tiktok
July 7 · 44 min
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. This episode is powered by Fourball Draws - where you can win a fourball on some elite courses for just a fiver - visit fourballs.co.uk and use code TOP100 to buy 2 or more tickets and get one absolutely free! This episode we're previewing both the Old Course (ranked 39, an ever-present in the world's top 100 since rankings began in 1938) and the New Course (ranked 88) at Walton Heath — a Ryder Cup venue where GB&I once got hammered 18½–9½ back in 1981. We dig into the club's remarkable design history: amateur architect Herbert Fowler's very first course (he went on to design Pebble Beach), and James Braid's 46 years as club professional — during which he redesigned 400 courses worldwide and never touched a single hole of Fowler's original layout, out of pure respect. Expect brutal bunkers, the most heather of any course in the UK (allegedly), a royal club captain who briefly became a king, four British Prime Ministers on the members list, and a genuine handicap-shredding difficulty rating. Plus: side bets, signature holes, and why "the Walton Way" might be the friendliest welcome we've had yet. The one thing that actually helps us reach more golfers is you hitting follow right now. Send us a message Support the show Learn more about our journey on our website Top100.in10.co.uk You can even sign up to our podcast mailing list on the website and get a limited edition Top 100 in 10 ball marker when you complete your profile Or follow our live journey on Instagram @top100in10 or Tiktok
June 30 · 32 min
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. This episode is powered by Fourball Draws - where you can win a fourball on some elite courses for just a fiver - visit fourballs.co.uk and use code TOP100 to buy 2 or more tickets and get one absolutely free! 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 Jr., James Braid, Harry Colt, and a coastal erosion crisis that's already swallowed the original 9th green. By 2085, the sea could be lapping at the 10th tee. There's also a clubhouse clock tower with a surprising Titanic connection, an Amateur Championship final between two future Ryder Cup captains, and a fully independent ladies' golf club operating entirely inside Formby's own boundary — one of only a handful of setups like it in the country. In this episode: - The four architects who built Formby — and the one who's conspicuously missing - Why the Irish Sea is taking 2.5 metres of this coastline every year - The clock tower donor with a direct link to the Titanic disaster - Formby Ladies Golf Club — a complete second course hidden inside the main layout - Our excitement levels, side bets, and a signature hole challenge before we tee off If you're new here: we're two mates trying to play all 100 of the UK and Ireland's top-ranked golf courses in 10 years. This is the preview — the full review drops in a few weeks once we've actually played it. If you enjoy this, the single best way to support the show is to hit FOLLOW (not subscribe, not like — follow) on Spotify or Apple. It's free, it takes two seconds, and it's the biggest lever we have for reaching more golfers. Send us a message Support the show Learn more about our journey on our website Top100.in10.co.uk You can even sign up to our podcast mailing list on the website and get a limited edition Top 100 in 10 ball marker when you complete your profile Or follow our live journey on Instagram @top100in10 or Tiktok
June 23 · 29 min
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. This episode is powered by Fourball Draws - where you can win a fourball on some elite courses for just a fiver - visit fourballs.co.uk and use code TOP100 to buy 2 or more tickets and get one absolutely free! We sit down with general manager Andy Romer to dig into 175 years of history: Old Tom Morris's £3.10 shilling redesign, James Braid's 1927 refinements (100 years old next year), lost holes buried under the car park, army connections to the Cameronians, and a quietly incredible piece of trivia — Lanark lost the vote to become Gleneagles by a single ballot. Why the 7th tee is the moment Lanark finally reveals itself The "Cabbages" — a nickname with a 175-year-old explanation How Lanark rebuilt its own history from minute books found in a cupboard Why this is a "stopover," not a "stay-and-play" course — and why that's exactly the point If you're enjoying the show, hit follow — it's the single biggest thing that helps more golfers find us. Top 100 in 10 is the podcast documenting our 10-year challenge to play every course in the Top 100 of the UK and Ireland. Hosted by Nish, Chris and Jim. Send us a message Support the show Learn more about our journey on our website Top100.in10.co.uk You can even sign up to our podcast mailing list on the website and get a limited edition Top 100 in 10 ball marker when you complete your profile Or follow our live journey on Instagram @top100in10 or Tiktok
June 16 · 43 min
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. This episode is powered by Fourball Draws - where you can win a fourball on some elite courses for just a fiver - visit fourballs.co.uk and use code TOP100 to buy 2 or more tickets and get one absolutely free! Castletown sits on a peninsula surrounded by sea on three sides. The course is dramatic, rugged, and handsome — comparisons to Turnberry aren't just flattery. Old Tom Morris designed the original layout in 1891; Dr. Alister MacKenzie later made his mark; Philip Mackenzie Ross shaped the course into what it is today. And for a peak season green fee of £180, it might be the best value round in the entire Top 100. In this episode, Nish and Chris review the full round — hole by hole highlights, the top three holes (including the legendary road hole 5th and the clifftop drama of the 17th), what to expect from the clubhouse and facilities, whether the trip itself is worth making, and whether Castletown sneaks into their all-time Top 5. Plus: the signature hole challenge resumes, and the results go exactly as badly as you'd expect. 🏌️ What we cover: – First impressions arriving on the Isle of Man (Manx TT weekend chaos included) – The ferry crossing, the weather triangulation method, and the Hotel of Doom – Castletown's history: Old Tom Morris, Dr. Alister MacKenzie & Mackenzie Ross – Course conditions — honest assessment of where it stands vs the Top 100 – Top three holes: Hole 4, the Road Hole (5), and the clifftop 17th – Playing the black tees — and why you should too – Why this course could become an elite destination golf resort – Three reasons every Top 100 hunter should make the trip – Signature hole challenge update: all square after 23 courses 📍 Castletown Golf Links, Isle of Man | Ranked #93 Top 100 GB & Ireland 💷 Green fee: ~£180 peak season If you're planning your own Top 100 journey or just love links golf in the UK, subscribe so you never miss an episode. 🎧 Follow us on Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube: youtube.com/@Top100In10 📸 Instagram | Facebook | Twitter/X: @Top100In10 #CastletownGolfLinks #IsleOfManGolf #LinksGolf #Top100Golf #GolfPodcastUK Send us a message Support the show Learn more about our journey on our website Top100.in10.co.uk You can even sign up to our podcast mailing list on the website and get a limited edition Top 100 in 10 ball marker when you complete your profile Or follow our live journey on Instagram @top100in10 or Tiktok
June 9 · 1 hr 10 min
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. This episode is powered by Fourball Draws - where you can win a fourball on some elite courses for just a fiver - visit fourballs.co.uk and use code TOP100 to buy 2 or more tickets and get one absolutely free! Nish is joined by returning guest Alex Katter (@kattergolf) to preview what might be the most distinctive club in English golf — and the conversation goes much further than one course. They cover why top 100 rankings are starting to feel like the old NME, why match play is the purest form of golf, the courses that don't need a list to matter, and how to actually enjoy a round without letting your phone ruin it. Check out Alex's playlists we mentioned in the episode - https://open.spotify.com/user/1164289082?si=1faeb1ac185a4302 Courses discussed: Swinley Forest, Hankley Common, Delamere Forest, Hollinwell, Hindhead, Liphook, Burnham & Berrow, St Enodoc, Gleneagles, Rye, Brancaster, West Sussex, Lanark #Top100Golf #SwinleyForest #GolfPodcast #UKGolf #HarryColt Send us a message Support the show Learn more about our journey on our website Top100.in10.co.uk You can even sign up to our podcast mailing list on the website and get a limited edition Top 100 in 10 ball marker when you complete your profile Or follow our live journey on Instagram @top100in10 or Tiktok
June 2 · 45 min
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. This episode is powered by Fourball Draws - where you can win a fourball on some elite courses for just a fiver - visit fourballs.co.uk and use code TOP100 to buy 2 or more tickets and get one absolutely free! Ranked 75th in the UK & Ireland, Liphook sits in the heart of Hampshire's heathland belt — between Hankley Common and Hindhead, in one of the finest concentrations of golf on the planet. At just 6,200 yards off the yellows, it looks like an easy day. The reviews suggest otherwise. Nish, Chris, and Jim preview what to expect: blind tee shots, lightning-fast greens, a par-three opener, five par threes in total, the famous seventh green straddling two counties, and the fifth hole — Black Fox — which designer Tom Simpson rated one of the finest he ever created (remarkable given Liphook was his only course). They also cover how the whole thing was founded in a pub, why the front and back nine were swapped around to accommodate the clubhouse, the Creator Cup victory that nobody told Jim about, and a very good argument about pace of play, pre-shot routines, and why maybe golf should just be 12 holes. 🏌️ Side bet: fewest shots to hit and stay on the 18th green 🏆 Signature hole: #14 — Simpson's Folly, par four, 434 yards --- Subscribe/follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. YouTube: youtube.com/@Top100In10 Send us a message Support the show Learn more about our journey on our website Top100.in10.co.uk You can even sign up to our podcast mailing list on the website and get a limited edition Top 100 in 10 ball marker when you complete your profile Or follow our live journey on Instagram @top100in10 or Tiktok
May 26 · 47 min
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. This episode is powered by Fourball Draws - where you can win a fourball on some elite courses for just a fiver - visit fourballs.co.uk and use code TOP100 to buy 2 or more tickets and get one absolutely free! In this preview, Nish, Chris and Jim unpack what to expect at Castletown Golf Links: the course ranked 96th in the UK and Ireland, eighth most spectacular on the islands, with nowhere to hide from the wind and a 17th hole that asks you to drive over a crashing ravine. They also get into the 2026 top 100 rankings reshuffle — why it's genuinely strange, why Old Head of Kinsale has dropped out at €450 a round, and what the lads are going to do about two courses they've already played that are no longer on the list. If you've been listening for a while and haven't followed yet, it takes one tap on Spotify or Apple Podcasts and genuinely helps an independent show stay in that top 20 chart. We'd love you to join us properly. Send us a message Support the show Learn more about our journey on our website Top100.in10.co.uk You can even sign up to our podcast mailing list on the website and get a limited edition Top 100 in 10 ball marker when you complete your profile Or follow our live journey on Instagram @top100in10 or Tiktok
May 19 · 47 min
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. This episode is powered by Fourball Draws - where you can win a fourball on some elite courses for just a fiver - visit fourballs.co.uk and use code TOP100 to buy 2 or more tickets and get one absolutely free! 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 that gets your juices flowing even in horizontal rain. In the mix: 20 golfers, a Ryder Cup weekend, playing against Wales' No. 1 ranked player, a 4-putt that cost Nish everything, and a church on hole 12. Join our Society Send us a message Support the show Learn more about our journey on our website Top100.in10.co.uk You can even sign up to our podcast mailing list on the website and get a limited edition Top 100 in 10 ball marker when you complete your profile Or follow our live journey on Instagram @top100in10 or Tiktok
May 12 · 1 hr
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. This episode is powered by Fourball Draws - where you can win a fourball on some elite courses for just a fiver - visit fourballs.co.uk and use code TOP100 to buy 2 or more tickets and get one absolutely free! 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 surge for Brora, a previously unranked Elie leaping to 54th, Old Head of Kinsale vanishing from the rankings entirely, JCB dropping off a cliff, and 8 courses leaving the list Nish and Chris have been playing. They get into what's actually changed (or what hasn't), the apparent parkland bias, the frozen top 30, the real-world cost to golf clubs and Top 100 hunters alike — and why the way the list's managers are responding to criticism online is making it worse. This isn't a rant. It's a conversation two very confused people needed to have. IRELAND TRIP — OCTOBER 2026 Portmarnock, The Island, Royal Dublin, County Louth, and Jameson Links. Listener slots still available. https://top100in10.co.uk/the-top-100-in-10-golf-tour-of-ireland/ FIND US: YouTube: youtube.com/@Top100In10 Instagram: @top100in10 Send us a message Support the show Learn more about our journey on our website Top100.in10.co.uk You can even sign up to our podcast mailing list on the website and get a limited edition Top 100 in 10 ball marker when you complete your profile Or follow our live journey on Instagram @top100in10 or Tiktok
May 5 · 1 hr 15 min
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. This episode is powered by Fourball Draws - where you can win a fourball on some elite courses for just a fiver - visit fourballs.co.uk and use code TOP100 to buy 2 or more tickets and get one absolutely free! In this episode we sit down with course manager John McLoughlin, the man who called Wallasey a "sleeping giant" five years ago and spent the time since proving himself right. We talk about the transformation, the Old Tom Morris greens, the Bobby Jones portrait in the clubhouse, and why this might be the best Irish-style links golf you can play without leaving England. We also cover our top three holes each, a Stableford match play battle (Nish wins 3&2), and the honest question: does Wallasey crack our personal top five from 70 Top 100 courses played? 🇮🇪 Playing in Ireland has never been harder to arrange — which is exactly why we've done it for you. Join us this October for a listener trip covering Portmarnock, The Island, Royal Dublin, County Louth and more. Details and booking below. https://top100in10.co.uk/the-top-100-in-10-golf-tour-of-ireland/ --- In this episode: - John McLoughlin on transforming Wallasey from sleeping giant to Top 100 contender - The Old Tom Morris connection — four original greens, nearly 130 years old - Bobby Jones, signed portraits and why Americans should know about this clubhouse - Our top holes: 3, 4, 10, 12 and 18 - The conditioning obsession — why Wallasey's transitions are becoming famous - Stableford match play result and our signature hole challenge update - Three reasons to visit Wallasey Golf Club --- 📺 Watch the full video episode on YouTube 📸 Find us on Instagram @top100in10 🌐 youtube.com/@Top100In10 Send us a message Support the show Learn more about our journey on our website Top100.in10.co.uk You can even sign up to our podcast mailing list on the website and get a limited edition Top 100 in 10 ball marker when you complete your profile Or follow our live journey on Instagram @top100in10 or Tiktok
April 28 · 1 hr 17 min
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. This episode is powered by Fourball Draws - where you can win a fourball on some elite courses for just a fiver - visit fourballs.co.uk and use code TOP100 to buy 2 or more tickets and get one absolutely free! In this bonus episode, Sophie talks honestly about tour life: what it really costs to compete at the top level, what she'd do differently, and her take on where women's golf should be investing its growing revenues. She gives us her one-line verdicts on the great courses — Royal County Down, Turnberry, Kingsbarns, Birkdale, and more. She reveals the caddy signal system that lets broadcasters know exactly what club a player is hitting. And at the very end, she answers the one more round question in a way that'll stay with you. 🏌️ JOIN US IN IRELAND — October 2026 We're heading to the Northeast Coast Links: Portmarnock, The Island, Jameson Links, Royal Dublin & County Louth (Baltray). 14 spots. Accommodation at Portmarnock Resort, farewell dinner at the Guinness Storehouse. 👉 https://top100in10.co.uk/the-top-100-in-10-golf-tour-of-ireland/ Find Sophie: Instagram: @SophWalksGolf X: @sophwalks Send us a message Support the show Learn more about our journey on our website Top100.in10.co.uk You can even sign up to our podcast mailing list on the website and get a limited edition Top 100 in 10 ball marker when you complete your profile Or follow our live journey on Instagram @top100in10 or Tiktok
April 21 · 45 min
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. This episode is powered by Fourball Draws - where you can win a fourball on some elite courses for just a fiver - visit fourballs.co.uk and use code TOP100 to buy 2 or more tickets and get one absolutely free! Get some details about our Irish Trip more details here This week, Nish and Jim preview Wallasey — ranked #99 in the UK & Ireland, designed by Old Tom Morris, tweaked by James Braid, and the qualifying venue where Bobby Jones won his Grand Slam Open spot. Chris is off doing a "breakaway round" at Loch Lomond. We'll get to that. In this preview: • The Eureka moment on the 2nd fairway, 1931 • Why Wallasey re-entered our Top 100 (and how we bent our own rules) • The Bobby Jones portrait that hangs in two clubhouses — Wallasey and Augusta • Plateau greens, four original Old Tom Morris greens, and the holes to watch • Green fees vs. Birkdale, Hillside and S&A — the value question • The side bet that wrote itself Things mentioned in this episode: Wallasey Golf Club — wallaseygolfclub.com Dr. Frank Barney Gorton Stableford — Wallasey member, surgeon, golf hero The 2nd fairway, Wallasey — site of the 1931 Eureka moment Old Tom Morris — original course designer (1891) James Braid — later design contributions Bobby Jones — qualified for the Open at Wallasey in his Grand Slam year Sir Ernest Royden — ex-captain who commissioned the Bobby Jones portrait John A.A. Berrie — the artist; painted both the Wallasey original and the Augusta replica Henry Longhurst quote — "I doubt whether any single man did more to increase the pleasure of the humble club golfer." Send us a message Support the show Learn more about our journey on our website Top100.in10.co.uk You can even sign up to our podcast mailing list on the website and get a limited edition Top 100 in 10 ball marker when you complete your profile Or follow our live journey on Instagram @top100in10 or Tiktok
April 14 · 55 min
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. This episode is powered by Fourball Draws - where you can win a fourball on some elite courses for just a fiver - visit fourballs.co.uk and use code TOP100 to buy 2 or more tickets and get one absolutely free! Join our Society for Free Get some details about our Irish Trip more details here Harbs from Harb 7 Golf joins Nish and Chris to break down the competition format, the prizes, the player profiles (which are brutal), and why a weekend like this costs just over £300. Plus: the full Burnham & Berrow preview — J.H. Taylor's incredible origin story, the Herbert Fowler / Harry Colt / Alister MacKenzie design pedigree, par threes people call the best collection in the Top 100, greens that rival anywhere in the country, and a finishing hole with a serious reputation. And if you fancy joining us in Ireland this October — Portmarnock, The Island, Royal Dublin, County Louth & Jameson Links — we've got 14 listener slots still open. Send us a message Support the show Learn more about our journey on our website Top100.in10.co.uk You can even sign up to our podcast mailing list on the website and get a limited edition Top 100 in 10 ball marker when you complete your profile Or follow our live journey on Instagram @top100in10 or Tiktok
April 7 · 55 min
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. This episode is powered by Fourball Draws - where you can win a fourball on some elite courses for just a fiver - visit fourballs.co.uk and use code TOP100 to buy 2 or more tickets and get one absolutely free! Get some details about our Irish Trip more details here Set in Cheshire, Delamere Forest Golf Club is a rare inland heathland-style course with dramatic movement, beautiful framing, and a routing that gets better and better as the round goes on. We break down the welcome, the clubhouse, practice facilities, course condition, standout holes, green quality, value for money, and whether Delamere deserves to be ranked far higher than its current Top 100 position. This episode also features our competitive fourball at Delamere, as we teamed up to take on friends in the “Duel at Delamere” — and the match produced some seriously good golf, plenty of banter, and one of the best days we’ve had on this Top 100 journey so far. We also touch on our upcoming Ireland golf trip, including Portmarnock, Baltray and more, before diving into why Delamere Forest might be one of the most underrated Top 100 golf courses in England. If you’re searching for honest golf course reviews, Top 100 golf travel inspiration, or the best golf courses in Cheshire and England, this is an episode you’ll want to hear. Send us a message Support the show Learn more about our journey on our website Top100.in10.co.uk You can even sign up to our podcast mailing list on the website and get a limited edition Top 100 in 10 ball marker when you complete your profile Or follow our live journey on Instagram @top100in10 or Tiktok
March 31 · 51 min
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. This episode is powered by Fourball Draws - where you can win a fourball on some elite courses for just a fiver - visit fourballs.co.uk and use code TOP100 to buy 2 or more tickets and get one absolutely free! Played in glorious March sunshine after one of the wettest winters in memory, Hillside was presented in sensational condition. We talk through why the welcome was the best we’ve had so far on our Top 100 journey, why the front nine deserves more credit, which holes stood out most, and whether Hillside is a better all-round experience than some of its more famous neighbours. If you’re planning a golf trip to Merseyside, England’s Golf Coast, or you’re simply looking for honest reviews of Top 100 golf courses in the UK and Ireland, this is one of our best course review episodes yet. Get some details about our Irish Trip more details here Send us a message Support the show Learn more about our journey on our website Top100.in10.co.uk You can even sign up to our podcast mailing list on the website and get a limited edition Top 100 in 10 ball marker when you complete your profile Or follow our live journey on Instagram @top100in10 or Tiktok
March 24 · 47 min
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. This episode is powered by Fourball Draws - where you can win a fourball on some elite courses for just a fiver - visit fourballs.co.uk and use code TOP100 to buy 2 or more tickets and get one absolutely free! Then Jared from Irish Fairways called me. He'd been listening to the podcast — which is either flattering or suspicious — and said three words that nearly made me fall off my chair: "We can help." And we ended up arranging a trip to Ireland that YOU can get involved in - more details here In this episode, Jared and Josh from Irish Fairways join us to talk about why Ireland's links courses captivate golfers from around the world, what makes links golf a completely different game to anything you'll play stateside, and how a chance phone call turned into a fully organised five-course trip along Dublin's north east coast — Portmarnock, The Island, Jameson Links, Royal Dublin, and County Louth. Josh is a PGA professional who still gets nervous on every tee box (his words), and his one-hole pick from the trip will make you want to book a flight immediately. Jared is the operations brain who nearly quit golf on his first ever round at Jameson Links in sideways rain — and started par-birdie in a pro-am months later. These two are brilliant company. Here's the big news: we've got 14 spots open for listeners to join us. October 4–10, 2026. Five world-class courses. Based at Portmarnock Resort. Farewell dinner at the Guinness Storehouse. Drivers, tee times, everything sorted. This year's Irish tee times are already gone — these are the last 14 spots that exist! If you've ever wanted to experience Irish links golf with a group who are there for the craic as much as the golf, this is it. Book here: https://top100in10.co.uk/the-top-100-in-10-golf-tour-of-ireland/ Send us a message Support the show Learn more about our journey on our website Top100.in10.co.uk You can even sign up to our podcast mailing list on the website and get a limited edition Top 100 in 10 ball marker when you complete your profile Or follow our live journey on Instagram @top100in10 or Tiktok