Golf Courses

7. Pebble Beach Golf Links Jack Neville & Douglas Grant (1919) / Arnold Palmer & Thad Layton (2016) Not just the greatest meeting of land and sea in American golf, but the most extensive one, […]

59. Old Sandwich Golf Club Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw (2004) Old Sandwich Golf Club may be the craftiest Coore-Crenshaw design yet built. Amidst its pines, scrub oaks, gnarly bunkers, chocolate drop mounds, wavy fescue […]

58. Interlachen Country Club Willie Watson (1911)/Brian Silva (2006) When Bobby Jones won the 1930 U.S. Open at Interlachen (completing the second leg of what would become the game’s first Grand Slam), fellow competitor Gene […]

57. Scioto Country Club Donald Ross (1916)/Michael Hurdzan & Jack Nicklaus (2008) When Michael Hurdzan was hired in 2005 to rebuild Scioto’s greens to re-establish much of their Donald Ross character, Jack Nicklaus volunteered to […]

56. Monterey Peninsula Country Club (Shore) Mike Strantz (2004) Mike Strantz was battling cancer while transforming the bland, low-budget Shore Course into a scenic and strategic marvel that rivals next-door neighbor Cypress Point. Strantz reversed […]

39. Sebonack Golf Club Jack Nicklaus & Tom Doak (2006) Not since Augusta National had the nation’s greatest golfer teamed with one of the most highly regarded course architects on a design project. But the […]

40. Pikewood National Golf Club J. Robert Gwynne & John Raese (2009) Seventeen years ago, mining company officers John Raese and Bob Gwynne started building a golf course on a newly acquired parcel of forest […]

55. Shoreacres Seth Raynor (1921)/Tom Doak (2013) Shoreacres possesses perhaps the most fascinating topography upon which Seth Raynor ever created a golf course, with his usual collection of suspects, including No. 3 (Leven), No. 6 […]

52. Winged Foot Golf Club (East) A.W. Tillinghast (1923)/Gil Hanse (2012) Winged Foot’s two-course complex is the product of A.W. Tillinghast’s fertile imagination. Every characteristic of the more famous West Course also exists on the […]

54. Whispering Pines Golf Club Chet Williams (2000) Corey Robertson, who made a fortune in coal reserves, staked out the Whispering Pines course in the early 1990s, then brought Texas-based golf architect Chet Williams (at […]