Saint Emilionnais Golf Club

Most of the top courses in Continental Europe are classic courses, but Tom Doak’s 2015 design at St. Emilionnais continues to move up various rankings. Part of it is about the location—located just over 15 miles from Bordeaux in the medieval village of St. Emilion on the site of an old hunting estate. Doak’s design team created intriguing architecture that will endure thanks to an emphasis on precision into Doak’s always-interesting putting surfaces. The new Cabot Bordeaux (about 50 minutes away) will be the buzzy facility in the next year or so with the Cabot group acquiring the Golf du Médoc Resort property, but its Bill Coore and Rod Whitman courses will be looking up to St. Emilionnais and where they currently sit in our rankings.