Best 9-Holes Golf Clubs: Golfers' Choice Rankings 2024

This year, we have published Golfers’ Choice Rankings in 19 countries in total. Rankings are only published when we find them reliable enough. That means that we want you - the golfer - to be able to plan your trip based on these rankings. Sure, opinions differ, but at least the Golfers' Choice Rankings should be a pretty good guideline of where to play your next round(s) of golf.

The rankings are created based on reviews provided by the Leading Courses community, making them very transparent. The Best 9-Holes Golf Clubs category is one of the "overall" categories of the Golfers' Choice Rankings, these are the golf clubs that really stand out of the crowd and tick all the boxes. The "Best Golf Clubs" category shows a weighted average of the following review items:

• General impression
• Golf course
• Golf course maintenance
• Facilities
• Clubhouse
• Value for money
• Hospitality
• Surroundings
• Restaurant

This ranking is available in The Netherlands and Belgium.

For the 5th year in a row, The Links Valley was chosen as the Best 9 Holes Golf Club in The Netherlands. The Links Valley is located in the Veluwe, a forest-rich ridge of hills (1100 km2) in the province of Gelderland. Because the hills in The Veluwe are made of sand, rainwater disappears rapidly,  making the surface perfect for a golf course.

It took almost 15 years of preparation, meeting the highest natural and environmental requirements, to build the golf course at this unique location. The Links Valley is situated on a 27-hectare site with a wealth of flora and fauna surrounded by pine forests and heathland and more than 20 metres difference in altitude, which is quite a lot for a Dutch golf course!

There wasn't enough room on the terrain to build an 18-hole golf course, but a solution was found by using a brilliant idea from well-known historical golf course architect Tom Simpson: Building a 9-hole course that you can play in both directions. A reversible course. 

Despite the fact that there are only 10 greens, you can play 18 different holes. Each hole offers a completely different experience when you play the hole in the other direction. The result of the course design combined with the beautiful unspoilt nature and the always playable sandy soil makes Links Valley spectacular and distinctive in its kind.

View the full Golfers' Choice Ranking of Best 9 Holes Golf Clubs in the Netherlands

Climbing from 2nd to 1st in the rankings in Belgium, Golfclub Beveren was elected the winner in this year's Belgian ranking of the Best 9 holes Golf Clubs. 

View the full Golfers' Choice Ranking of Best 9 Holes Golf Clubs in Belgium