Mission Hills (Pete Dye Challenge)

The Essex County Club dates back to 1893 and when the club opened that year, it was the proud owner of the first 9-hole course in New England. The five founding members of the United States Golf Assoc...

Tpc sawgrass' dye's valley course is another club that receives much less coverage than it deserves due to its proximity to a world top 100 golf course (and pga host). Many pga pros thought pete dye ...

Sawgrass started out in life as a swamp, as did most of the Florida Panhandle, but this did not deter Deane Beman who purchased the 400-acre site for the princely sum of $1 in 1978. Three years later,...

Sea island was once dubbed the "no. 1 golf resort in north america" by golf digest. Sea island is one of those resorts that absolutely cannot be missed, with luxurious accommodations and a plethora of...

It's golf reimagined, complete with arnold palmer's signature brush. It's famous and unlike everything else. Shingle creek golf club is the name of the course. The palmer heritage is located in a han...

The three men had a passion to create a golf course that would maintain the natural beauty of the region while rewarding good shot making, and they did just that. This well-kept course highlights the ...

The natural elegance of the par 70 saddlebrook course will take you back in time to the florida of the conquistadors as you walk the lush fairways set in a hammock of cypress and oak. This impression ...

Don't be fooled by the par 71 arnold palmer golf course's 6,641 yardage. while many of the holes have ample driving spaces, the strong green fairways are contoured to mimic a rolling new england cours...

Marsh landing country club, situated near ponte vedra beach, promises stunning scenery and exciting play for golfers at all ability levels. Marsh landing country club is challenging but welcoming, wit...

The king & bear course at the 36-hole world golf village resort, which is located next to the world golf hall of fame in st augustine, is the product of a special partnership between the design te...

The world-renowned innisbrook resort and golf club, located in 900 acres of sandy palm harbor, florida, offers four golf courses. E.m. forster, a well-known american architect, Between 1969 and 1973, ...

The highlands south course at innisbrook resort & golf club in palm harbor, florida, opened in 1970 as a resort golf course. Highlands south course at innisbrook resort & golf club was designe...

Highlands reserve sits on one of florida's highest points, providing stunning views and a course designed for hot orlando golf. This championship mike dasher architecture features pine tree-lined fair...

Hawk's landing golf club was created by famed golf architect robert cupp jr. to provide a spectacular mix of local florida wildlife and tropical plants, as well as a demanding golf course. Hawk's land...

The squire course at pga national: the squire is one of five 18-hole courses at pga national, designed by tom fazio and dedicated to gene sarazen. Many consider this to be the most beautiful of the fi...

On this spectacular and challenging golf course, water comes into play on 16 of the 18 holes. The course is covered in marble-white sand bunkers and celebration bermuda grass, making it both enticing ...

Falcon's fire golf club is regarded as one of orlando's best public golf courses, both regionally and nationwide. This championship golf course, engineered by rees jones, and the spacious clubhouse pr...

The estate course, designed by karl litten, is a fun combination of difficult and docile holes. Since it is one of the shorter courses at pga national resort & spa, it is suitable for players at a...

You'll get a taste of what it's like to play the final course, which was co-designed by robert trent jones senior and junior, two legendary masters of golf course architecture. Their collective skills...

Long bay club in longs, south carolina, is known for being tough, but also magnificently unforgettable, as it has regularly been rated among the best courses in the state and has been called one of go...

King's north has 18 of the most beautiful and stunning holes you'll ever see. The island fairway on the par-5 6th hole (nicknamed "the gambler") provides a "risk-reward" shortcut to the course. If you...

Willbrook plantation has gone well beyond its niche as one of south carolina's most successful for women, consistently ranked as one of the best golf courses in the myrtle beach region. Willbrook, a ...

Farmstead golf links is a step from the others. The most noteworthy feature is the 767-yard par-6 18th hole, which starts in south carolina and ends in north carolina. while the dual-state 18th hole ...

The blackmoor golf club in murrells inlet, south carolina, has remained a popular destination for golfers. One of the most player-friendly golf courses on the grand strand The style strains the mind...

The seaside course on sea island is a tom fazio re-design of the 1929 classic designed by harry s. colt and charles alison. Bobby jones, the famous golfer, said it was one of the greatest nine holes h...

Twenty-seven holes of stunning golf in one family-friendly kit. The shipyard golf club, located in hilton head's natural setting with magnificent carolina pine trees, flowering magnolias, and moss cov...

Robber's row was designed by famed architects george w. cobb and willard c. byrd in 1967, and was rebuilt by world-renowned architect pete dye in 1994. The path passes through stunning branches of mag...

Planter's row, the plantation's newest course, was designed by willard c. byrd and constructed in 1983. The hilton head seniors international golf tournament, a former senior pga tournament event, has...

The port royal golf & racquet club is situated in the very scenic port royal plantation, along with the luxury oceanfront westin hilton head island resort & spa, on the northwestern point of h...

Oyster reef golf club's stunning 18-hole championship course is carved out of 190 acres of beautiful low country terrain and is surrounded by shallow lagoons, dense trees, and scenic views of the isla...

Start your round on one of hilton head island's most exclusive courses. The golf course designed at palmetto dunes oceanfront resort takes full advantage of the area's natural beauty, offering a game ...

The barony course at port royal golf club was one of the first courses on hilton head island, designed by george w. cobb. The barony course, which is over 40 years old, continues to attract acclaim fr...

Kissimmee bay country club is a luxurious escape from the hustle and bustle of daily life, located just 15 minutes from orlando international airport and 25 minutes from downtown orlando, as well as a...

Royal st. cloud golf club's american-style links course is a true playing experience...and a stunning contrast to traditional orlando golf. From the redan and cape hole greens to the sweeping fairways...

Stoneybrook east golf course, located in central florida, is a championship course with all the hallmarks of traditional florida golf courses. although the architecture is conventional, there are some...

The pinehurst no. 3 golf course is the smallest and most generous of the nine pinehurst resort courses, at just over 5,700 yards. If you slice your opening drive, or your tee shot at the even short pa...

The revere offers a rare mix of charm and challenge in southern nevada. The revere golf course, nestled in the rugged desert canyons and valleys of the las vegas foothills, promises unrivaled views of...

The sidewinder at gold canyon golf resort snakes through arroyos and dry creeks at the base of dinosaur mountain. Along the testing curves that involve top play, exotic cacti such as cholla and prickl...

The scottsdale area par-70, championship layout features dramatic elevation changes, unspoiled desert scenery, abundant wildlife, and the rustic charm of the historic dude ranch, which is now part of ...

Longbow golf club is located in north mesa, just minutes from phoenix sky harbor airport and old town scottsdale. The essence of arizona golf can be found at longbow golf club. âĢĿâĢĿthis award-...

The westin kierland resort & spa in scottsdale blends a championship golf course with the elegance of a resort. The westin kierland golf club is surrounded by the vast and scenic scenery of the sc...

The monument course was the first of two 18-hole courses to open at troon north, and it was designed by tom weiskopf and jay morrish around the rough sonoran desert landscape in 1990, five years befor...

The shark, carved out of an ancient ocean, has built a course that perfectly reflects the spirit of the outback. This difficult, but equal course features an abundance of beaches, patches of wildflowe...

Pete dye designed this 72-par course, which features rolling mounds, manicured fairways, and dense rough in a typical rolling-links layout with scottish and irish flair. On this course, which has host...

From the moment you reach the clubhouse, you'll find that desert pines is all about golfers. Take a look at the amazing picture show featuring stories from the 1930s and 1940s. It's almost as good on ...

The 36-hole torrey pines golf course, which is owned and run by the city of san diego, is located atop the coastal cliffs of la jolla and is widely recognized as one of the finest public golf faciliti...

Torrey pines is one of the finest urban golf courses in the united states, set on cliff tops 20 minutes north of san diego. The name torrey pines comes from the trees on the two courses, which are amo...

Spyglass hill golf course, one of the pebble beach company's four prominent 18-hole courses, has hosted the pga tour's at & t pebble beach national pro-am since 1967, the year it was first unveile...

The links at spanish bay was designed by robert trent jones jr. (with input from tom watson and former usga president sandy tatum) and is set on a large area of sandy terrain overlooking the pacific o...

Greater palm spring is a cluster of over twenty villages in the coachella valley, 100 miles east of los angeles, with over eighty golf courses. Unfortunately, the majority are private clubs with high ...

while pebble beach evokes memories in the imagination, we believe that few people are aware of the private monterey peninsula country club, which is very close to 17-mile drive. The monterey peninsula...

The dunes golf course at monterey peninsula country club is a 1926 seth raynor design that was built with mackenzie's aid by alister mackenzie's partner, robert hunter. Mpcc's gem, remodeled by rees j...

The luxury park hyatt aviara resort overlooks the stunning batiquitos lagoon ecological reserve, and its arnold palmer-designed golf course, which dates from the late 1980s, is the focal point of a 20...

In 2016, the pga tour's careerbuilder challenge event (formerly known as the bob hope classic) co-hosted the championship on both the nicklaus tournament course (featuring two island greens) and pete ...

The we-ko-pa golf club is located just north of scottsdale on land created by the fort mcdowell yavapai nation, and it features two impressive 18-hole layouts: the cholla (opened in 2002) and the sagu...

The cholla course at we-ko-pa golf club was originally recommended by paul as a hidden gem, and it was introduced to the top 100 list in february 2008. Since then, we've expanded our arizona best in s...

Tom weiskopf and jay morrish designed the stadium course at tpc scottsdale, which opened for play in 1986. The city of scottsdale invited them to build a community golf course that will also challenge...

There was no confusion about which course was in charge at the start of the tpc scottsdale creation. The stadium course continues to host the most well-attended party on the pga tour, but there has be...

Pete and alice dye's tpc stadium course, the most demanding of the three public courses at the pga west golf complex, hosts the pga tour "q-school" finals every two years. Because of the facility's si...

Quintero golf and country club is the realization of lea and gary mcclung's dream of providing world-class golf to a welcoming neighborhood. The mcclung dream has come true, thanks to rees jones and ...

The 18-hole layout at mountain ranch golf club promises much more than the typical golfing experience that one would expect from a resort course, with fairways carved from breathtaking ozark mountain ...

The fazio foothills designed, one of four 18-hole designs at the barton creek resort, was built on an undulating site that causes the route to change elevation multiple times during a round, and it ce...

Troon country club is located at a high elevation in the beautiful sonoran desert. The course was designed by jay morrish and tom weiskopf in 1986 and is named after weiskopf's famed scottish alma mat...

The palmetto golf club is a relic from the early days of american golf. Palmetto was built in 1892 by thomas hitchcock, who also laid out a modest four-hole golf course, which was soon enlarged to nin...

Haig point is situated on daufuskie island's north end, across the calibogue sound from hilton head island's harbour area. although both locations are lovely and romantic, haig point's isolation adds ...

The palmetto dunes oceanfront resort on hilton head island's 54-hole robert trent jones course was the first 18-hole layout to open for play in 1968. Roger rulewich restored this open, non-returning t...

The sea marsh course, one of three excellent layouts at the sea pines resort, reopened in 2007 as heron point by pete dye after undergoing substantial renovations.

The best of the three courses at the sea pines resort is harbour town golf links, which was designed by pete and alice dye and jack nicklaus. Heron point and atlantic dunes, the resort's other two cou...

The fazio course, which is located between the love and dye configurations at the 72-hole barefoot resort, was built with the visual effect of water at fifteen holes.

The ocean course at the sea pines resort, designed by george cobb, was the first 18-hole layout to open on hilton head island in 1960, and it was later redesigned by mark mccumber in the mid-1990s. L...

True blue golf club's fairways wound their way around an ancient indigo and rice plantation, making it one of architect mike strantz's early projects. True blue was just the architect's fourth golf pr...

Tpc myrtle beach's 18-hole tom fazio-designed layout is one of 38 tournament players club courses that operate at thirty private and public golf facilities throughout the united states, canada, mexico...

Along the intracoastal waterway and cherry grove is where tidewater golf club and plantation's course is located. It's a well-regarded 18-hole course that's attracted a lot of fans since it first open...

Pine lakes country club was the first golf course in myrtle beach, opening in 1927. Today, it's one of twenty-two prime times founders collection golf courses that make up the area's best value golf c...

Since its establishment in 1928 on 186 acres of undulating wooded terrain in sheboygan, pine hills country club has held a number of important tournaments, including the u.s. open. Local qualifying fo...

The grande dunes resort golf course, which is located on a bluff overlooking the intercoastal waterway, had its greens changed to bermuda grass in 2012.

Mike strantz died in 2005 at the age of 50, which was a sad loss for his family, but it was also a significant loss for american golf course architecture, as he was widely considered as one of the mos...

The course at tpc las vegas, previously known as tpc at the canyons, is one of the few pga tour tracks open to the public. The 7,104-yard course, described as "desert beauty" by bobby weed and raymon...

Rio secco golf club is a beautiful rees jones creation that sits in the foothills of the black mountain range and is home to the butch harmon school of golf.

Turtle point yacht & country club was founded on a 200-acre site owned by one of its founders, stanley robbins, on the northern shores of wilson lake, near where shoal creek joins the tennessee ri...

Donald ross famously designed the first four courses at pinehurst, and thanks to ellis maples, a ross associate, no. 5 didn't fall far from the tree. When the resort employed george fazio and his neph...

The original jack nicklaus-designed architecture, which opened in 1989 as the national golf course, was redesigned by the 18-time major champion in 2012. Pinehurst purchased the property in 2014 and r...

For years, golf course architect tom fazio has polarized sentiment, but some of his courses have brought all sides of the spectrum together. All of them is pinehurst no. 8. As part of the resort's cen...

Donald ross was hired by james walker tufts, the businessman who established the pinehurst resort at the end of the nineteenth century, to create the golfing aspect of his vast sandhills lands, and th...

The no.7 golf course at the famed pinehurst resort, designed by rees jones in 1986, might not be everyone's first preference, but it's a demanding and at times exciting layout that is inevitably eclip...

Sanctuary, the brainchild of re/max chairman and co-founder dave liniger, is set against the epic backdrop of the rocky mountains. The course was designed by award-winning architect jim engh and opene...

The country club of orlando, founded in 1911, is one of florida's oldest country clubs, and their old donald ross-designed course has undergone many upgrades over the years, the most recent of which w...

The grand cypress golf complex, located only a few miles east of the walt disney world resort, was built in the mid-1980s, with the north, south, and east nines (now shittered) opening first, followed...

If you don't list forest lake country club among the notable golf courses in bloomfield hills, a affluent suburb north of detroit, you're revealing your prejudice toward short-distance roads. Forest l...

Bay hill was built on the site of a florida orange grove and is strategically situated near downtown orlando. The bay hill club & lodge was conceived by a consortium of nashville businessmen, who ...

In 1962, trump national doral debuted the red tiger course opposite the blue monster. The original dick wilson architecture has recently been redesigned by the gil hanse design team and is set out ins...

The ginn, once known as ocean hammock golf club, seems to have been transformed and scrapped in another re-branding effort by hammock beach resort, but it is still the only beachfront property on the ...

It's quick to be lulled into a false sense of confidence when approaching the golden palm course at the trump national doral golf club, which has two other courses called "blue monster" and "red tiger...

Following in the footsteps of tom doak, bill coore, and ben crenshaw to design the third 18-hole course at a new golf resort where the current two courses are already rated in the top 100 in the count...

The streamsong resort's red, blue, and black courses are located on a large piece of reclaimed land inside a massive 16,000-acre property that was once extensively mined by the mosaic group, a major s...

The streamsong resort is located an hour south of tampa, within the grounds of an old phosphate strip mine that was once owned by the mosaic corporation, and its three golf courses are set in a breath...

Donald soffer, a real estate entrepreneur, had a vision in the late 1960s of transforming a swampy 750-acre tract of land in north miami beach into an upmarket luxury estate with golf as its sporting ...

The original 18-hole plan at the kiawah island resort is cougar point. It was designed by gary player and runs through mature trees and well-established residential areas. it has been upgraded many ti...

While the course formerly known as the sandpiper is now part of the north and south courses, the innisbrook resort's golf courses were constructed between 1969 and 1973. The island course, which was n...

Old marsh golf club's 18 holes are situated in the center of a 450-acre private residential community where the fairways and mother nature fit in seamlessly with the wetland surroundings. The sandhill...

The feel of Bandon Trails has been likened to Spyglass Hill or Formby though some think it resembles the type of terrain to be found on the sand belt to the west of London. There are three links like ...

To our knowledge, The Golf Club has never hosted a significant tournament, so very little is widely known about the course. But if you are lucky enough to receive and invite to play The Golf Club, tak...

No expense was spared in the construction of Muirfield Village with bold bunkering, water hazards and narrow fairways that require pinpoint accurate tee shots. The plan was for Muirfield Village to be...

The latest 18-hole layout to grace the Bandon Dunes property, Old Macdonald, has been built in the architectural spirit of Charles Blair Macdonald and Seth Raynor. Macdonald is widely regarded as the ...

After the 2004 USPGA Championship, the field were united in their view that this is one of the best golf courses in the world and it’s surely one of Vijay Singh’s favourites, especially after his ...

The course lies within an area of pine hills to the south of Plymouth, close to Cape Cod Bay, on a parcel of land that looks like it was always meant for golf. It’s a wooded property that offers a p...

Donald Ross laid out the South course in 1917 and Robert Trent Jones toughened the layout up ahead of the 1951 US Open, which was won emphatically by Ben Hogan. After his win, Hogan commented that he ...

The acclaimed stretch from the 10th to 15th holes is regarded as Raynor’s finest. It begins with a 452-yard version of the Road Hole (complete with out of bounds to the right) and ends with the scen...

Maidstone is routed across the Gardiner Peninsula, which is one of the finest parcels of golfing ground in the world. The Maidstone Club dates back to 1891 and we think William Tucker originally desig...

Pete Dye certainly pays attention to detail and the green sites at Kiawah Island are consistently natural. With miles of underground pipes, which recycle surplus irrigation water, it’s no surprise t...

Bandon Dunes Golf Resort is a bit special and in many ways it’s a rather romantic place too. The little seaside town of Bandon is located on the remote southwest Oregon coastline at the mouth of the...

Old Town measures around 7,000 yards from the tips and the key to scoring well is via accurate approach play. If you find yourself on the wrong part of the green or facing a chip from just off the gre...

The club originally commissioned little known Scotsman Willie Lock to design the course on the new site in the fashionable Bay Area, but an Irishman, Arthur Vernon Macan, replaced him before construct...

When the USGA announced that the 2002 US Open Championship would be held on the Black course at Bethpage State Park in New York, little did they know what they were letting themselves in for. Not only...

In 1897, when the course first opened for play on the Hempstead Plain in Long Island Village, it was in the middle of rural countryside. Today, Garden City Golf Club is an oasis in the middle of subur...

The Camargo Club is set amidst undulating countryside on the edge of Cincinnati in the State of Ohio. It’s a Seth Raynor jewel which opened for play in 1925. Famous for its outstanding one-shotters ...

Somerset Hills Country Club is an A.W. Tillinghast creation and it’s naturally natural with nothing brash or ostentatious about the course. With glorious green sites and a pretty layout, it’s a co...

The 27 holes in play today at The Country Club were constructed at different times with input from numerous architects. Francis Ouimet won the US Open on the original course (Clyde & Squirrel), bu...

Ballyneal sounds Irish so it’s fitting that this is a links course albeit an inland links. The dream of Rupert and Jim O’Neal has become a reality and we think that this course, which is located i...

Donald Ross originally designed Seminole in the 1920s and it was the first outstanding course to be built in America’s deepest South. Situated on the Atlantic side of Florida’s coastline, Seminole...

Situated close to Golden Gate Bridge, the course was not only the first remarkable example of the great architect’s craft, it was also the first course of any real quality to be constructed on the W...

The course, or at least 9 holes, opened for play in 1937 and Perry Maxwell laid them out. Maxwell believed absolutely that “the golf course should be there, not brought there,” and he surveyed the...

George C. Thomas Jr. designed Riviera, or should we say manufactured Riviera. When the course opened for play in 1926, the construction bill was almost $250,000 and this was one of the first courses w...

In a similar vein to many of the USA’s finest courses, you’ll need an invite to play here but persevere, because it’s worth it. The West is an amazing course, which is routed across fairly ordin...

Founded in 1892, Chicago Golf Club was initially located at Belmont. In 1894 it moved to its present location at Wheaton and it became the first 18-hole course in America, designed by the daddy of Ame...

The course (now known as the North) at the renamed Los Angeles Country Club was refashioned by Herbert Fowler in 1921 but re-routed in 1927 by George C. Thomas Jr. and his right-hand man, William Bell...

Measuring 6,673 yards from the tips, Pacific Dunes is by no means a championship layout. But with par set at 71, it’s tough enough for most of us, especially when the wind is up. We are thrilled tha...

Friar’s Head is routed through rugged, wooded dunes and former farmland. The course starts in the dunes, holes 2 -7 and 11-13 are sited on an old potato farm then the remaining holes are back in the...

Fishers Island Club is set romantically on a narrow island that is a mere two miles wide and eight miles long. The island sits between the National Estuary of the Long Island Sound and a series of lak...

Benjamin Merrick, a local Grand Rapids lawyer, coined the name Crystal Downs. He likened the vista from atop the hill (where the clubhouse now stands) to the rolling chalk downland found in southern E...

Augusta National Golf Club is one of Earth's most exclusive clubs and the layout was designed by perhaps the world’s greatest golfer, who teamed up with maybe the world’s greatest architect. Bobby...

When Merion Golf Club was founded in 1896, Philadelphians were more likely to play cricket than golf. They even sent touring cricket teams to England! But it wasn’t long before the golf bug really ...

The Sandhills region of Nebraska is a huge meadow, which extends to some 20,000 square miles but amidst the cowboys and the grazing cattle, lies a magnificent sandy tract of golfing ground, which is o...

Oakmont is hidden away in the Pennsylvanian hills near Pittsburgh and steel magnate Henry C. Fownes fathered Oakmont in 1903. His son William, former U.S. Amateur Champion, continued his father’s wo...

On the shore edge of Peconic Bay at Southampton on Long Island is the National Golf Links of America. “I will not describe that delightful spot again.” Wrote Bernard Darwin in Golf Between Two War...

Shinnecock Hills Golf Club is an old club with old traditions and Scottish professional Willie Davis, aided by 150 Indians from the neighbouring Shinnecock Reservation, can take credit for what was pr...

Pine Valley Golf Club was the dream of a Philadelphian hotelier, George Crump, who sadly died before its completion. The legacy he left behind is universally considered to be the perfect example of pe...

Pinehurst No. 2, the centerpiece of Pinehurst Resort, remains one of the worlds most celebrated golf courses. It has served as the site of more single golf championships than any course in America and...

Pebble Beach isnt just the No. 1 public course in America. Pebble Beach is the No. 1 Golf Resort in America. With three Top 50 public courses canvasing the spectacular coastline that wraps around Cali...

Amongst the world of golf, few courses are as revered as Cypress Point. Cypress Point Golf Course was created by the well renown designer Alister Mackenzie and opened in 1928. Extraordinary and timele...