One of our favorite trips in the British Isles combines the Ayrshire Coast in Scotland with the Lancashire/Merseyside Coast in England, a tour that includes no less than 5 Open Championship venues (Royal Troon, Turnberry, Royal Lytham & St. Anne’s, Royal Birkdale, and Royal Liverpool), plus Prestwick, birthplace of the Open, not to mention Western Gailes, Hillside, and Formby! Roughly halfway between these incredible golfing coasts is a course called Silloth-on-Solway in Cumbria, the most northerly links on England’s west coast. If you want to include a course virtually no one else from North America has played, or if you want to break up the trip north or south, you could not do better than this immensely challenging links. Highly respected within the UK, Silloth-on-Solway is an industrial-strength layout in an industrial setting, a highly difficult course with heather, gorse, undulating terrain, and incessant wind. It is not without beauty though, especially the 9th, called “The Manx” as it is directed right at the Isle of Man, a par-3 right on the sea, with miles upon miles of sandy beach in low tide. Uncrowded golf, incredible value, a traditional club with a terrific billiard room, an isolated location—Silloth-on-Solway is more than worth a visit, and a monster of a course!