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The biggest surprises on our inaugural list of the Top 100 Courses in the UK & Ireland

It’s rare to see anything shorter than a par 70 get praise for its great design here in the U.S. But our course raters favored a par 68 and par 69 so much, they cracked our top 25 in the British Isles. Architecture editor Ran Morrissett explains.

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