Hillside

• Location: Southport, England
• Open: 1911
• Designer: unknown
• Major Course Updates: Fred Hawtree, Donald Steel, Jonathan Tucker
• Events Hosted: British PGA Match Play Championship
• Key Rankings: 22nd best golf course in England, Top 100 Golf Courses (2022)

 
While nearby Royal Birkdale gets all the Open Championship fame, Hillside plays an important part in being in England’s best links golf region, hosting the 1982 British PGA Match Play Championship. In that championship, Tony Jacklin tied Bernhard Langer in regulation, but Jacklin went on to win on the first playoff hole. Dunes and rumpled fairways further treat those who step away from Birkdale and Southport & Ainsdale, while all three combine to create one of the best three-course rotations in England.