19.More about this course . 46, 2015-16. Add several water hazards that hearken back to the 16th at Augusta (a hole which Trent Jones designed, by the way), and you have what some panelists consider to be Trent's finest work. Previous ranking: No. Bandon, OR. Apparently, the name chosen for the club had been part of the local lexicon for nearly 250 years. Hammond & Co. asked Golf Digest in 1962 to select the best. 100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2017-18. Many putts that look uphill are actually running downhill. Great Waters is a vivid example of that intent. 16, 2005-06 & 2011-12. THE MATERIAL ON THIS SITE MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED, TRANSMITTED, CACHED OR OTHERWISE USED, EXCEPT WITH THE PRIOR WRITTEN PERMISSION OF DISCOVERY GOLF, INC. 2023 DISCOVERY GOLF, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, Several new courses made impressive entrances, notably. Doral, Fla. / 305-592-2000 / trumpgolfdoral.comDick Wilson (1961)7,608 Yards, Par 72 / Points: 56.6385The linchpin of the famous four-course complex previously known as Doral Golf Resort, the Blue Monster had hosted a PGA Tour event annually from 1962 to 2016. As we wrote back in 2005, "its options outnumber its rock outcroppings, and there are outcroppings galore. The 1980 design was pure Pete Dye, who set out to test the world's best golfers by mixing demands of precision with target golf. 4 course at Pinehurst has always been something of a Mulligan Stew. Pebble hosted another U.S. Though not as broad as is customary for the designers, the cant of the holes and the engaging fairway bunkering puts a premium on shaping shots and hitting the correct lines off the tee. Orange County National (Panther Lake) Barefoot Resort & Golf's Love Course (Courtesy of Barefoot) T151. 25 The Quarry at Giant's Ridge, also in northern Minnesota. Rising Fawn, Ga. / 706-398-0882 / themclemore.comBill Bergin & Rees Jones (2020)7,005 yards, Par 71 / Score: 56.3342. Some greens have been toned downand the fine fescue surfaces have been allowed to transition to Poa annuasome fairways have been narrowed and a few new tee angles introduced. The front nine is mostly tree-lined, the back more open, with both touching on ponds, marsh and Pine Valley-like sandy wastelands. The bunkers here are some of Fazio's most elaborate.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2015. After grassing both greens and their bold surrounds in the same MiniVerde Bermuda turf, it was decided to mow everything at the same low height of cut. You might argue Manele has been perpetually underranked, starting with its finish on Golf Digests ranking of Best New Resort Courses in 1994, well behind World Woods Pine Barrens course, which is currently 90th on this list. Previous ranking: No. The No. Bottom-line: Blue is no little brother. After trial runs hosting the 2008 U.S. Women's Publinks and the 2011 U.S. Bandon Dunes is also ranked sixth among our 50 Most Fun Public Courses.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2003. Highest ranking: No. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Mid-Pines GC/kevinmurraygolfphotography.com. How many of Golf Digest's 100 Greatest Courses in America have you played? 100 Greatest Public History: Ranked from 2011 through 2014. Because many holes were blasted from rock, some holes have fields of boulders in the rough and all water hazards are bulkheaded with stacked stone. Highest ranking: No. Between fairways and tree lines, they established vast bands of native hardpan sand dotted with clumps of wiregrass and scattered pine needles. Highest ranking: No. More about this course , Streamsong, Fla. / 888-294-6322 / streamsongresort.comGil Hanse (2017)7,320 Yards, Par 73 / Points: 59.3133Like its sister courses, No. Highest (and previous) ranking: No. 55, 2015-2016. Highest ranking: Current ranking. 51. Macdonald (1915) / Lester George (R.2006) 7,246 Yards, Par 70 / Points: 59.1852 C.B. 12 Highest ranking: No. A standout is its 13th, a drivable par 4 that's nearly as wide as it is long, with three alternate routes to a 100-yard-wide green.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2005. In fact, the USGA is bringing back the Women's Open again in 2022.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked 2003-04 & since 2007. 4. Highest ranking: No. In the last decade, the club (which also has a Fazio-designed 18) began allowing public play on its Nicklaus track. Cascades was ranked by Golf Digest as one of America's 100 Greatest for 40 years and is No. The Bermuda turf is firm and bouncy, and while the routing is sprawling, it's easily walkable.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2015. The Stanwich Club at Greenwich competes a trio of top-drawer golf courses for the Constitution State. Though it has slipped from that lofty parapet, the course is still the same. Previous ranking: No. Previous ranking: No. Tower, Minn. / 800-992-4680 / golfthewilderness.comJeff Brauer (2004)7,207 Yards, Par 72 | Points: 57.3412In 2005, The Wilderness at Fortune Bay won America's Best New Upscale Public Course, a year after architect Jeff Brauer won the same award for No. 79. Click the link to read the story. 5.More about this course , Photo Credit: Courtesy of Shadow Creek GC, 800-487-4653 / pinehurst.comDonald Ross (9 1902 /Donald Ross & Walter Travis (A.9 1907)Donald Ross (R.1935)7,588 Yards, Par 72 / Points: 63.9639In 2010, Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw led a team that descended on Pinehurst No. The flower beds are treated as lateral hazards.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2017. 46 (the first time making our 100 Greatest Public since 2003). 23.More about this course , Streamsong, Fla. / 863-428-1000 / streamsongresort.comTom Doak (2012)7,176 Yards, Par 72 / Points: 59.7721We suspect many a discussion will occur in Streamsong's 19th hole comparing the merits of both the Tom Doak-designed Blue Course and Coore and Crenshaw-designed Red Course (ranked No. 4, 2003-04. 48. Our new 2021 ranking of America's 100 Greatest Public Courses will help lead the way 2. Using "friendly contours" that divert shots away from bunkers and toward targets, designer Kidd wants everyone to have fun, maybe even shoot personal best scores. 15 Sheep Ranch at Bandon Dunes, Golf Digests 2020 Best New Course, and Ozarks National (No. Mike Keiser tapped Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw to convert it into Bandon Dunes fifth regulation 18-hole course and Coore and Crenshaws second. To retain playability for resort golfers, Kidd provided some of the widest fairway corridors in all of American golf, an experiment he first undertook, with great success, a few years early at No. 29, 2011-12. The design rewards shaped drives and precise approaches that come in high. 66, 2009-10. Kohler, Wis. / 800-344-2838 / blackwolfrun.comPete Dye (9 1988, A. Top 200 Modern Courses Top 200 Classic Courses Mexico, Caribbean, Atlantic islands, Central America Top 50 Classic Courses in Great Britain & Ireland Top 50 Modern Courses in Great. 35, 2015-16. Pete Dye and his companions have twice played the course from those tees in less than three-and-a-half hours, on foot. 2, 2007-12, 2015-16 through presentMore about this course , Haven, Wis. / 800-344-2838 / whistlingstraits.comPete Dye (1998) / 7,790 Yards, Par 72 / Points: 64.5043Pete Dye transformed a dead flat abandoned army air base along a two-mile stretch of Lake Michigan into an imitation Ballybunion at Whistling Straits, peppering his rugged fairways and windswept greens with 1,012 (at last count) bunkers. The most fascinating hole comes early, the par-4 second with out-of-bounds indicated by a barbed-wire fence hard along the right from tee to green.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2015. The USGA returned to Torrey Pines for another U.S. Open in 2021.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2003. It's an equally low-profile layout with a number of bump-and-run approach shots but with several Pine Valley-like waste areas and with larger, bolder greens. Sunriver, Ore. / 800-801-8765 / sunriver-resort.comBob Cupp (1995)7,683 Yards, Par 72 / Points: 57.7008Part of Crosswater was reportedly built in the meadow where John Wayne, as Rooster Cogburn, filmed his climactic charge with guns blazing in the 1969 film, True Grit. Pete Dye at French Lick was Golf Digest's Best New Public Course of 2009.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2011. 46. 30, 2009-10. 17, 2017-18. Wild Horse is perhaps their finest, laid out on the southern edge of the Nebraska sand hills and patterned after the great Sand Hills Golf Club to the northwest, which both Proctor and Axland helped build. 3, 2005-06. What did they expect? Traditionally a private club (there are a total of 45 holes on property), Black Diamond now offers on-site accommodations and stay and play packages, hence its inclusion in this ranking. The course, which hosted the PGA Tours Michelob Championship from 1981 through 2002 and now hosts an LPGA event, sits quietly on the land and lets the natural movements of the wooded siterather than sharp architectural featuresdefine the character. Chandler Egan 1929, Pebble Beach, CA) PACIFIC DUNES GOLF . But "waste bunker" is the term that stuck.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2003. New Haven, Conn. / 203-392-2377 / yalegolf.yale.eduC.B. Courses in italics are scheduled to played this year. 15 Sheep Ranch at Bandon Dunes, Golf Digests 2020 Best New Course, Golf Digest Green Star environmental award, Golf Digest's Best New Public Course of 2009, Blue Course, a Tom Doak design, is ranked No. 22.More about this course . But Yale is the rare course that doesnt need immaculate grass and landscaping for its superior architecture to shine. America's 100 Greatest Public Courses. It should be higher. The desert can be a harsh environment, both physically and economically. Previous ranking: No. The topography of the course is magnificent, the bunkering is superb (particularly the crossbunkers on 12 and 13) and the course finishes with a rare par-3 18th. It was also once among the rota of courses for the old Bob Hope Desert Classic, until some pros, objecting to its difficulty, petitioned to remove it. In 2014, Pasatiempo received a Golf Digest Green Star environmental award for its measures in dealing with drought. It was the site of Jack Nicklaus's first U.S. However, there are two courses you won't find on the list - Lonsdale Links, on Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula, and the newest addition to the Melbourne Sandbelt, Sandy Links. Kauai, Hawaii / 808-826-1912 / makaigolf.comRobert Trent Jones Jr. (1971)7,223 Yards, Par 72 / Points: 56.9212The first solo design of Robert Trent Jones Jr., Princeville Makai is situated on bluffs overlooking Kauai's Hanalei Bay and pipeline surf. Most greens are ringed by random lumps, bumps and hollows, what Dye calls his "grenade attack architecture." That also exposes shots and putts to ever-present and sometimes fierce coastal winds.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2003. Great public golf can be found in every corner of the United States. The Ozarks of southern Missouri are not tall, but their ridge-and-valley topography provides a sense of heightened elevation. Course Rankings. 33, 2017-18. Bandon Trails starts and finishes in serious sand dunes (the 18th being recently remodeled by Coore) while the remainder rolls through Oregon forest. For putting surfaces, Fazio built crowned greens with greenside swales, intended as a salute to Donald Ross and Pinehurst No. The drivable par-4 sixth is a riff on Rivieras 10th, and theres a little Pebble Beach-inspired downhill par 3 with a reservoir and Front Range views taking the place of the Pacific Ocean backdrop. Its original concept was to be a simple, affordable, lay-of-the-land layout that proved Mother Nature is indeed the best golf architect. "We popped the hills at Poppy Hills," says Trent Jr. A new feature are sandy naturalized areas and pine straw off the fairways instead of manicured rough, part of a concerted effort to significantly reduce water consumption.100 Greatest Public History: 2017 to current. Previous ranking: No. Previous ranking: No. Come one, come all: Here are GOLF's Top 100 Courses You Can Play, 2021-22 By: GOLF's Course Raters and Ran Morrissett, Architecture Editor May 4, 2021 For the first time our ranking. Year Built: 1994. The best public golf experiences in the country based on over 265,000 reviews from our golfer community. La Jolla, Calif. / 800-985-4653 / sandiego.gov/golfWilliam F. Bell (1957)7,802 Yards, Par 72 / Points: 58.7683Torrey Pines sits on one of the prettiest golf course sites in America, atop coastal bluffs north of San Diego with eye dazzling views of the Pacific. 1-50 Martis Camp. Golf Digest deemed that hole, a breathtaking par 4 that rides the clifftop and seems to levitate above McLemore Cove, one of the best 18 holes built in the U.S. since 2000. All three are now ranked among America's 100 Greatest Public Courses.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2003. After hosting the US Open in 2015, Chambers Bay comes in at #21. 9.More about this course , Pebble Beach / 800-654-9300 / pebblebeach.comRobert Trent Jones (1966)6,960 Yards, Par 72 / Points: 62.5718Given the task of designing a course just up 17 Mile Drive from Pebble Beach and Cypress Point, Robert Trent Jones responded with a combination of Pine Valley and Augusta National. The fearsome layout has been given added bite by Hanse and Wagner by creation of new slopes and ridges on several holes and the excavation of new lakes on par-3 15 and drivable par-4 16 to add more excitement to the finish. 20, 2005-06. Kohler, Wis. / 855-444-2838 / blackwolfrun.comPete Dye (1989)7,250 Yards, Par 72 | Points: 57.1627Even before Pete Dye completed the River Course at Blackwolf Run, he had taken the front nine of the original Blackwolf Course (Best New Resort winner of 1988) and merged it with a newly-constructed nine to form the Meadows Valley Course. Bay Harbor consists of 27 holes, but we rank its Links 9, which plays mostly on a plateau overlooking Lake Michigan, and its Quarry 9, which dips in and out of a lakefront stone quarry.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2003. 8, 2015-16. Like the rest of the world, Yale Golf Course fell on hard times in 2020 and even shuttered its doors for a period of time, letting the course grow over while it was forced to downsize staff due to COVID-19. Pebble Beach. Highest (and previous) ranking: No. Its most controversial hole is the short par-4 14th with a thumb of a green personally fashioned by Crenshaw. Pebble's sixth through eighth are golf's real Amen Corner, with a few Hail Marys thrown in over a ocean cove on eight from atop a 75-foot-high bluff. Over the decades the tree-lined South Course, still a demanding tournament venue, has gained the respect of the best players who appreciate its unambiguous demands and ability to identify the best ball-strikers. 01 Ballyneal Holyoke, Colorado 52 23 22 1 02 Colorado Parker, Colorado 88 77 2 03 Castle Pines Golf Club Castle Rock, Colorado 3 04 Cherry Hills Cherry Hills Village, Colorado 05 Denver Denver, Colorado 06 Broadmoor (East) Colorado Springs, Colorado 07 Sanctuary Sedalia, Colorado 7 08 Ravenna Littleton, Colorado 8 09 Maroon Creek Aspen, Colorado 10 There are very wide and deep greens here, too, so a depth chart is a must. Lanai City, Lanai, Hawaii / 808-565-2222 / fourseasons.com/lanai/golf/ Jack Nicklaus (1993) 7,039 Yards, Par 72 / Points: 60.5232 Manele, previously called The Challenge at Manele, has unseated Kapaluas Plantation course as the highest-ranked public course in Hawaii. Golf Digest Course Ranking 2021: You Get What You Charge For? Highest and previous ranking: No. The Resort at Glade Springs (Stonehaven) T147. 2.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2003. Holes seem to emerge from the landscape rather than being superimposed onto it. It's beautiful but not for the faint of heart, a hilly course with some narrow, pine-lined fairways and occasional challenging shots over water from sidehill or downhill lies. Roscommon, Mich. / 989-275-0700 / forestdunesgolf.com Tom Doak (2016) 6,704 Yards, par 70 / Points: 57.7615 The idea of a reversible golf course is as old at the Old Course at St. Andrews, and golf architect Joel Goldstrand built a series of nine-hole reversible courses for small clubs in Minnesota, Iowa and North Dakota back in the 1980s. 21, 2009-10. Research and coordination by Stephen Hennessey. The property where Rams Hill is located in the Anza Borrego Desert State Park, on the western edge of the Sonoran Desert, about an hour from La Quinta, Calif., was first developed for golf in 1993. 5, 2011-12. College golf courses can be the most challenging of assignments for architects because of the need to accommodate the broad range of abilities that play the course day to day. Amateur in 2018 and its sixth U.S. Open in 2019.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2003. Highest ranking: No.
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