Golf resorts, like Lady GaGa, are gorgeous to behold but occasionally contentious. Usually neatly trimmed, bunkered and full of white wash villa wonders they are nevertheless sometimes criticised for being water and land hungry.

But despite these weak points resorts such as Monte Rei in Portugal (picture, above) are enormously popular with the club swinging crowd, lauded as the golf equivalent of the ski-in, ski-out chalet.

And for most it’s the brilliance of the golf that really matters – the devious dog legs, the angle of the greens, placing of the bunkers and length of the rough. If these are up to par then it’s time to look at the design of the houses, a resort’s location and its reputation.

So the Primelocation team has found a writer to rank them. He’s played many of the world’s best golf resorts and seen their properties, becaise Peter Swain (and his writer wife Cheryl Markosky) have spent many weekends away in recent years writing a column for the The Daily Telegraph, so who better to sift through the hundreds of golf resorts around the world and name the 20 best? Read the ample fruits of his efforts here.

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