{"id":293175,"date":"2025-11-19T11:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/293175\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T11:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:50:09","slug":"top-100-courses-in-the-world-2025-26-our-raters-votes-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/293175\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 100 Courses in the World 2025-26: Our raters’ votes, revealed!"},"content":{"rendered":"

By:<\/p>\n


\n GOLF’s Top 100 Course Panelists <\/a><\/p>\n

November 19, 2025<\/p>\n

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\n New South Wales (Rank: 46)\n <\/p>\n

5 Photos<\/p>\n

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New South Wales (Rank: 46) <\/p>\n

Gary Lisbon\n <\/p>\n

What separates the world\u2019s Top 100 courses from the tens of thousands of others? <\/p>\n

We leave that up to our international panel of 126 expert raters to decide. <\/p>\n

And because we don\u2019t prescribe a set method to assess courses as other\u00a0ranks do, no one opinion carries the day \u2014 our\u00a0rank is a democracy. Some panelists believe that enjoyment is the ultimate goal, and thus prioritize design attributes such as width and playing angles, while frowning upon the need to constantly hunt for balls in thick rough. Other panelists value challenge and the demands of hitting every club in the bag. Still others consider a course\u2019s surroundings and overall environment of paramount importance, thereby emphasizing the setting and naturalness of the course. In the end, allowing raters to freely express their tastes is what produces the desired eclecticism in our Top 100 lists.<\/p>\n

That variety has emerged yet again, in our 2025-26 edition of the Top 100 Courses in the World, which you can browse below. <\/p>\n

To hear our ratings experts break down our latest rankings, check out our travel podcast\u00a0Destination GOLF. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts:\u00a0APPLE<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0SPOTIFY<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0IHEART<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0AMAZON<\/a><\/p>\n

GOLF\u2019s other course rankings:\u00a0Top 100 in the U.S.<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Top 100 You Can Play<\/a> | Top 100 Value Courses in the U.S.<\/a>\u00a0| America\u2019s Best Municipal Courses<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0America\u2019s Best Courses for $100 or Less<\/a> | Top 100 in the U.K. and Ireland<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Top 100 in Asia-Pacific<\/a> | Top 100 Short Courses in the World<\/a><\/p>\n

To browse and search our latest lists in map form, check out our Course Finder<\/a> tool.<\/p>\n

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Explore our Course Finder app<\/p>\n

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Top 100 Courses in the World (2025-26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By: GOLF’s Top 100 Course Panelists November 19, 2025 New South Wales (Rank: 46) 5 Photos Start Slideshow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-293175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}