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Hosted by Neil White and Ian Woods · sports · EN-GB
This is the essential podcast for those planning to play the world's top golf courses. We now have dozens of reviews from Top 100 courses in the UK, Ireland, France, Spain, Italy, Scandinavia, the USA and Australia…and the library is building every week. All the episodes are stand alone - you don't have to listen to them in any particular order. In 2020 Neil White began a challenge to play all of the world's top courses. You can read his reviews at www.thegolfpilgrim.com. Now you can listen to his reviews, as he gives an honest account of the courses, the practice facilities, and the food available. Is it value for money? Will you be made to feel welcome as a visitor? There are champagne and comedy moments to discuss, in the company of his fellow journalist and pal Ian Woods. Ian's a former Sky News and BBC Correspondent, who's now working for ITV. He's played a lot of great courses too, and is a former Captain of the Press Golfing Society.<
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Signup to Generate a PitchThis is the essential podcast for those planning to play the world's top golf courses. We now have dozens of reviews from Top 100 courses in the UK, Ireland, France, Spain, Italy, Scandinavia, the USA and Australia…and the library is building every week.
The Golf Pilgrim Top 100 is hosted by Neil White and Ian Woods. The show has published 166 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Royal Portrush (Valley), County Antrim, Northern Ireland" (23 October 2026, 37 minutes), "Littlestone, Kent, England" (16 October 2026, 29 minutes), and "Malone (Drumbridge & Ballydrain), County Antrim, Northern Ireland" (9 October 2026, 30 minutes).
The Golf Pilgrim Top 100 publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 39 minutes across 166 episodes.
Booking probability for The Golf Pilgrim Top 100 is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Golf Pilgrim Top 100 requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Golf Pilgrim Top 100's contact route on record: public web form.
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Neil White and Ian Woods hosts The Golf Pilgrim Top 100, a sports podcast with 166 episodes published.
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Episode #164
Royal Portrush's second course now ranks in the Great Britain and Ireland Top 100 in its own right, so it deserves its own episode of The Golf Pilgrim. If you're after the Dunluce Championship course, keep scrolling...
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Littlestone attracts a high standard of golfers - the average handicap of its membership is a good indicator. But a few years ago it was graced by "the worst golfer ever to play in The Open"! When filmmakers needed a...
Episode #162
Malone Golf Club sits in the midst of one of the most exclusive areas of Belfast, with 27 parkland holes around a huge lake. The championship 18 is ranked as the best course in the city, and you sense that is true from...
Episode #161
A near neighbour of Royal Porthcawl, P&K, as it is affectionately known, earns plaudits in its own right and is ambitious in its plans for the future. A round here is a game of two halves - the original course was...
Episode #160
A parkland course in the suburbs of Belfast, Belvoir Park takes you on a roller-coaster ride through tree-lined valleys, on a routing that has changed little since Harry Colt designed it a century ago. Peter Alliss...
Episode #159
For decades, Swinley Forest was in a world of its own: an ultra-private members' club in a secluded area on the Berkshire/Surrey border, with few outsiders able to enjoy a course rightly rated one of the best in the...
Episode #158
"It's in the hole!!" Yes, the moment every golfer dreams about… but was it Neil or was it Ian who celebrated a hole-in-one? It was a perfect sunny day with barely a hint of a breeze, and Ardglass was looking at its most...
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Episode #156
Unlike so many of Ireland’s finest courses, Galgorm Castle is not a links, and it is miles from the sea. But you are never far from water. 14 of the 18 holes feature water hazards, with lakes and rivers cutting through...
Episode #155
It’s the home of England Golf and has a fearsome reputation as one of the most difficult courses in the country. Woodhall Spa’s Hotchkin course is rated as one of the best heathland courses anywhere, but is its...
Episode #154
Castlerock is on prime links golf land on Northern Ireland’s Causeway Coast. Its close proximity to Portrush and Portstewart is both a blessing and a curse; the Mussenden course used to be seen as living in the shadow...
Episode #153
“We’ve had a spectacular week, beautiful weather. The people are amazing here, so welcoming and helpful.” Those were the words of US Curtis Cup captain Sarah LeBrun Ingram after her team’s 2021 win. Allisen Corpuz, who...
Episode #152
As we approach the 20th anniversary of the 2006 Ryder Cup at the K Club, it's a good time to revisit the course which has provided so many great memories. The Arnold Palmer designed parkland course has hosted numerous...
Episode #151
Earier this year Ryan Fox joined us on The Golf Pilgrim to talk about some of his favourite courses in New Zealand. In July, Ryan became the Champion Golfer of the Year, lifting the Claret Jug at Royal Birkdale! Having...
Episode #150
Castletown on the Isle of Man is rightly proud of its pedigree. Old Tom Morris laid out the original links, Alister MacKenzie made improvements 20 years later, and Philip Mackenzie Ross updated it after the Second World...
Episode #149
Seascale was announced as one of England’s top 100 in the 2026 list, and we discovered it was entirely deserving of its place. It has some classic links holes, including one over a farmer's field and another that is...
Episode #148
"Bury me in a pot bunker", wrote the legendary designer Pete Dye, so his friends and family did just that at the side of the eighth of his masterpiece, Teeth of the Dog. The Dominican Republic links, which sit on the...
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A recent new entry into England’s Top 100, Appleby is not your average course. It’s a par 68, with no par 5s, but it does have what designer Mike Clayton calls “the nuttiest of nutty holes in the world”! With grazing...
Episode #146
The city of Belfast is in County Antrim, but Royal Belfast Golf Club is north-east of Northern Ireland's capital, in County Down. It's celebrating the centenary of its Harry Colt-designed parkland course on the shore of...
Episode #145
Shane Lowry helped bring Baltray, County Louth, to wider acclaim when he won the Irish Open here as an amateur. But connoisseurs of Irish courses have always known this was one of the country’s finest links. It’s also...
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