Isle of Purbeck

Swanage, Dorset.

Par 70, 6,295 yards.

Designer: Harry Colt.
Green fees: £48 Mon-Thurs, £50 Fri-Sun.
Tel: 01929 450354.

The Purbeck course (there is also the nine-hole Dene) benefits, as many based near the coast in Dorset, Sussex and Hampshire do, from the stirring views its elevation provides. Here you can gaze across the Solent, Poole Bay, Poole Harbour and west to the Purbeck Hills. Built on heathland within a nature reserve.