The top 15 golf courses in Scotland, as ranked by Golfweek's Best

As the golf world’s eyes shift to Royal Troon’s Old Course this week for the 152^nd British Open – ahem … Open Championship, if you please – it’s worth a look at all the top-ranked courses in Scotland. 

Golfweek’s Best course-ranking program utilizes hundreds of members in our ratings panel to continually evaluate courses and rate them based on our 10 criteria. They also file a single, overall rating on each course based on a 1-10 scale. Those overall ratings on each course are averaged to produce a final rating for each course. 

• Best Classic courses in Great Britain and Ireland
• Best Modern courses in Great Britain and Ireland
• How we rank courses

Listed below are the top 15 courses in Scotland, as judged by those hundreds of raters. Included with each course is its average rating, location, designer(s), year opened and where it ranks on Golfweek’s Best 2024 list of top courses outside the U.S.