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The AA Golf Guide 2007 - The original just gets better
In the last 10 years Golf has rapidly become a game of 'have clubs' will travel. For all the promotion, for the casual golf traveler, the players who pick say one of Europe's ever expanding golf destinations, can soon find that their clubs have recently started to cost more to take than their own air fare. There can be little variation in the style of the course then there are the rounds which take a day to play - so 'yes' to the Sun but there are fantastic alternatives

There have been plenty of new golf courses built here in the UK since the mid 80s, to go with the 1000s of established clubs which form the history of the great game. You can visit just about any club in the UK and green fees range from single figures to a couple of hundred pounds, but where do you start to plan?

This is a web magazine and the web has fantastic functionality - you type in even part of a name and up comes 1000s of links. For all that the technology offers, if you want to get into the 'feel' of a County or Region, then the golf guide has and always will be something to sit with, in front of a Winter fire, a book to browse, to go back to at your leisure.

The truth is that there have been a number of golf guides set-up on the web, and that some have been around for nearly 10 years. None are complete, few entries are up-to-date, and most haven't used the advances in design and design technology that make the web even easier to use since the late 90s.

Golf courses can also pay to place themselves higher on search engines. Being able to pay to promote anything is no guarantee of quality. You can buy a number of books which feature the top, best, undiscovered courses of the UK and Ireland. Beware more commercial involvement in the production of a fair few of these pictorial specials.

The AA Golf Guide does feature the top courses. It also doesn't include every course in the UK - not quite, just nearly. Its in alphabetical order - Counties/Regions then courses. The info is up-to-date; the feel of the production just right for what is not an expensive way to find the perfect holiday for your clubs. You just site and get comfortable and off you go - a perfect Christmas present if its not bought before!

David Morgan on 2006-11-23