Kent

Knole Park Golf Club sits at Sevenoaks in Kent, within the 1,000-acre medieval deer park beside Knole House. It is inland golf with a difference. Top100GolfCourses describes it as a country park that happens to have a golf course on it, and deer roam the parkland, occasionally coming close to the golfers.

Littlestone Golf Club is a traditional links on Romney Marsh on the south Kent coast, founded in 1888 and now more than 130 years old. The championship course is a par 71 of around 6,500 yards from the back tees, set on natural dunes with fast running fairways and cunningly placed bunkers. It describes itself as within the Top 100 courses in England and has hosted Open Championship qualifying five times.

North Foreland Golf Club sits on the cliffs of the Isle of Thanet near Broadstairs in Kent, with panoramic views over the sea. Founded in 1903 as a nine-hole course by a group of enthusiasts led by Lord Avebury and William Capel Slaughter, it grew to 18 holes as the press baron Alfred Harmsworth, later Lord Northcliffe, took an interest and folded the North Foreland Lighthouse into the course.

Prince's Golf Club is a championship links of 27 holes at Sandwich Bay in Kent, next door to Royal St George's. Opened in 1906, it hosted the 1932 Open Championship, when Gene Sarazen won and debuted his newly invented sand iron. The bunker where he played it was later named the Sarazen Bunker in his honour.

Rochester & Cobham Park Golf Club sits in the grounds of the Elizabethan Cobham Hall estate near Rochester in Kent. The club was founded in 1891 as Rochester Golf Club, and settled at Cobham in 1919, after its original site became unavailable and the 8th Earl of Darnley leased the club the Deer Park at Cobham Hall. The current Earl still serves as Club President, a family connection that stretches back more than a century.

Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club is a championship links at Deal on the Kent coast, about three miles south of Royal St George's. Founded in 1892 and named for the medieval confederation of Cinque Ports, it has a true links character and is described by The Open as one of the country's most iconic links courses.

Host of The Open Championship on fifteen occasions, Royal St George's is one of the great links courses in the world. Its vast dunes, blind shots and unpredictable winds create a test of golf that is simultaneously infuriating and magnificent. For American golfers, this is bucket-list territory.

Wildernesse Golf Club sits in Seal, just east of Sevenoaks, in wooded Kent countryside. Founded in 1890, it has more than 125 years of history and is a private members' club with a strong reputation for tree-lined golf.