Rye

• Location: Bridgend, Wales
• Open: 1894
• Designer: H.S. Colt
• Major Course Updates: Tom Simpson, Sir Guy Campbell, Martin Ebert & Tom Mackenzie
• Events Hosted: N/A
• Key Rankings: 17th best golf course in England, Top 100 Golf Courses (2022), 66th best golf course in the world, Golf Magazine (2021)

 
Harry Colt went on to become one of the world’s best golf architects, and perhaps the best of all time, with a catalogue of Pine Valley, Hamilton, Toronto, Muirfield, and more to his name, but it all started as a 25 year old at Rye’s Old course, rollicking up and down the hillside of the linksland. While the course is only a par 68, no one in their right mind views lesser on Rye, which continues to rank high in rankings and the minds of golfers who visit the golf course.