51. Garden City Golf Club Devereux Emmet (1899)/Walter Travis (1913)/Tom Doak (2015) Minimalist in its design (you can still see the faint traces of old roadbeds over which the course was routed) and natural in […]
41. Baltusrol Golf Club (Lower) A. W. Tillinghast (1922)/Rees Jones (2014) Jack Nicklaus won two U.S. Opens on Lower Baltusrol, setting a tournament record each time. Phil Mickelson and Jimmy Walker won PGAs on it. […]
48. Castle Pines Golf Club Jack Nicklaus (1981)/Jack Nicklaus (R. 1993, 2000) When Golf Digest began its annual Best New Course awards in 1983, the review panel selected Castle Pines as the Private Course winner, […]
47. Butler National Golf Club George Fazio & Tom Fazio (1974)/Tom Fazio (R. 1988, 2005, 2008) Butler National was former tour player George Fazio’s ideal of a championship course, with 10 forced-carries over water in […]
42. Erin Hills Golf Course Michael Hurdzan, Dana Fry & Ron Whitten (2006)/Dana Fry (2013) Despite the rumor, Erin Hills wasn’t designed specifically to host a U.S. Open. Its original concept was to be a […]
53. Medinah Country Club (No. 3) Tom Bendelow (1928)/Rees Jones (2009) Medinah No. 3 is Exhibit A for the notion that great golf courses aren’t created, but evolve. A major tournament site since 1949, it […]
37. Bethpage State Park G.C. (Black) Joseph H. Burbeck & A.W. Tillinghast (1936)/Rees Jones (2015) Sprawling Bethpage Black, designed in the mid-1930s to be “the public Pine Valley,” became the darling of the USGA in […]
35. San Francisco Golf Club A.W. Tillinghast (1924)/Tom Doak (2017) San Francisco Golf Club’s original routing was done mostly by a trio of club members, who first staked out the course in 1918. A.W. Tillinghast […]
To arrive at our ranking of America’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses, our panelists play and score courses on seven criteria: SHOT VALUES How well do the holes pose a variety of risks and rewards and […]
24. Kiawah Island Golf Resort (Ocean Course) Pete Dye & Alice Dye (1991); Pete Dye (R. 2002, 2011) Often considered to be the first course designed for a specific event – the 1991 Ryder Cup […]
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