Zion Crossroads, Va. / 540-832-0744 / springcreekgolfclub.comEd Carton (2007)7,348 yards, Par 72 / Score: 56.2808. Stillwater, Okla. / 405-743-1658 / karstencreek.com Tom Fazio (1994) 7,449 Yards, Par 72 / Points: 59.9734 Karsten Creek, winner of Golf Digest's Best New Public Course title in 1994, was developed by Oklahoma State University and thus is also often at the top of rankings of the best collegiate courses in America. 66, 2009-10. 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. Top 100 US Golf Courses 2021-2022 | Courses | Golf Digest 1 course ever since we introduced the 100 Greatest Public in 2003. 17, 2003-04. 20 Streamsong Red and No. Courses Top 100 Courses in the World: GOLF's 2021-22 ranking of the best designs on the planet By: GOLF's Course Raters and Ran Morrissett, Architecture Editor November 16, 2021. 17.More about this course , Streamsong, Fla. / 863-428-1000 / streamsongresort.comBill Coore & Ben Crenshaw (2012)7,110 Yards, Par 72 | Points: 60.5785Coore and Crenshaw's Red Course is one third of the hottest golf destination to open in America this decade. Highest ranking: No. Highest ranking: No. Orange County National (Panther Lake) Barefoot Resort & Golf's Love Course (Courtesy of Barefoot) T151. Photo Credit: Brian Oar/courtesy of Four Seasons, University Place, Wash. / 253-460-4653 / chambersbaygolf.comRobert Trent Jones, Bruce Charlton & Jay Blasi (2007)7,585 Yards, Par 72 / Points: 60.1416By the time Golf Digest named Chambers Bay as America's Best New Public Course of 2008, the USGA had already awarded the course the 2010 U.S. Highest (and previous) ranking: No. 40, 2011-12. 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. "Project Legacy" has delivered just that, essentially obliterating the two former 18-hole courses to make way for the current set-up, with the Grange and Tamaki nines now considered the 18-hole course of first choice. America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses First established in 1966, the biennial 2021-2022 ranking of America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses is ready for its close-up By Derek Duncan and. 23 on "America's Top 100 Public Courses" list by Golf Digest. 74. 8.More about this course , 866-772-4769 / erinhills.com Michael Hurdzan, Dana Fry & Ron Whitten (2006)7,731 Yards, Par 72 / Points: 62.8534Despite the legend spread by many, Erin Hills wasn't designed specifically to host a U.S. Open. Strung along nearly three miles of ocean coast, Dye took his wife's advice and perched fairways and greens so golfers can actually view the Atlantic surf. 100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2003. Highest ranking: No. 12 (on America's 100 Greatest Courses) Crystal Downs, a neighbor every northern Michigan that visitor wants to play, even though it's private and Arcadia is public. His ultimate target hole is the heart-pounding sink-or-swim island green 17th, which offers no bailout, perhaps unfairly in windy Atlantic coast conditions. / 417-339-5460 / bigcedar.comBill Coore & Ben Crenshaw (2019)7,036 yards, par 71 / Score: 59.6256. Australia's Top 100 Golf Courses 2022/23 - Australian Golf Digest The pond supplies Kapalua's sprinkler system, which is pressurized solely by gravity.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2003. Channeling another famous but rather indifferent site, the designers turned to Chicago Golf Club and the architecture of McDonald/Raynor for inspiration. Amateur and 2015 U.S. Open. 30, 2009-10. 20). It has three ocean-cove holes, including the par-3 12th and dogleg-right par-4 17th. 2 Pacific Dunes, ever since it finished second to it in the Best New Upscale Public Course race of 2001. Green Lake, Wis. / 800-529-4453 / lawsonia.comWilliam Langford & Theodore Moreau (1930)6,853 Yards, Par 72 | Points: 57.4026The geometric shapes and steep, angular slopes of Lawsonia's massive green pads and deep bunkers have led many to conclude it's a Seth Raynor design, which it is not. The minimum TOEFL score is 600 on the paper-based test, 250 on the computer-based test, or 100 on the Internet-based TOEFL. 13, 2011-12. RESORT, (NEW) THE PFAU COURSE AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY, TRUMP NATIONAL DORAL MIAMI (BLUE MONSTER), (RELATED: The best courses in every state), No. The Blue definitely has the bolder set of greens, some with massive shelves and dips. 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. Highest (and previous) ranking: No. 26, 2003-06. Wolcott, Colo. / 866-873-3759 / redskygolfclub.comGreg Norman (2003)7,480 Yards, Par 72 / Points: 57.4345There are two 18s at Red Sky Ranch, one by Greg Norman, the other designed by Tom Fazio, No. 8, 2003-04. Highest (and previous) ranking: No. Pebble hosted another U.S. Highest ranking: No. Hammond & Co. asked Golf Digest in 1962 to select the best. Highest ranking: No. Highest ranking: No. The five opening holes, in Pine Valley-like sand dunes, are an all-too-brief encounter with the Pacific seacoast. The holes are either very long or tantalizingly gettable. But, like other multiple course operations such as Bethpage and Cog Hill, Madden's has easier alternate layouts for high-handicappers.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2003. 4. Known for pushing the boundaries in golf course design, Strantz went to the max as he cut through the sand quarries and natural terrain to create Tobacco Road. With its elaborate greens and spectacular bunkering fully restored by Jim Urbina, it is a classic example of Mackenzie's art. Maryland | Top 100 Golf Courses | Top 100 Golf Courses Maryland Maryland, the Free State, is considered by some to be a microcosm of America and earns its nickname of "America in Miniature" due to its climatic extremes and its topographical variety. 11.More about this course , Bandon, Ore. / 888-345-6008 / bandondunesgolf.comTom Doak & Jim Urbina, with George Bahto, Bradley Klein,Karl Olson & Mike Keiser (2010)6,944 Yards, Par 71 / Points: 62.3008When it opened in 2010, we predicted Old Macdonald would eventually become the most popular course at Bandon Dunes Resort, mainly because it has wide fairways and generous greens. Connecticut | Top 100 Golf Courses | Top 100 Golf Courses Highest ranking: No. It shouldn't, especially since its Donald Ross heritage has been reinforced by a restoration by John Fought more than 10 years ago. All in all, Wisconsin has seven of. Both touch repeatedly on the wetlands of namesake May River.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2009. 906-225-0721 / golfgreywalls.comMike DeVries (2005)6,828 Yards, Par 71 / Points: 57.4242A decade before architect Mike DeVries created the world-class Cape Wickham GC in Australia, he produced an equally compelling design in Michigans Upper Peninsula, a second 18 for Marquette G.C. Farmington, Pa. / 800-422-2736 / nemacolin.comPete Dye (1995)7,550 Yards, Par 72 / Points: 57.2019Mystic Rock is one of the more curious courses Pete Dye ever designed, with mostly oval greens and rectangular bunkers. It hosted Military Tribute at The Greenbrier, an annual event on the PGA Tour, until 2020. Brooksville, Fla. / 352-796-5500 / worldwoods.comTom Fazio (1993)7,237 Yards, Par 71 / Points: 56.4991Back when Golf Digest's named the Pine Barrens Course at World Woods' America's Best New Resort Course of 1994, most panelists said the layout, carved from a sand-based pine plantation, compared favorably to Pine Valley, with similar belts of sand and vegetation lining each hole. Pete Dye and his companions have twice played the course from those tees in less than three-and-a-half hours, on foot. The finish line is a course away. 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. Hanses and Wagners new iteration ties No. Highest ranking: No. Highest ranking: No. Golfers' Choice January 7, 2021 In Santa Cruz, Pasatiempo is the best Alister Mackenzie course that is open to the public in the U.S. and made the 2021 Golfers' Choice Top 50 in the U.S. Jason Scott Deegan/Golf Advisor Besides being named America's Best New Upscale Public Course of 1998, Bulle Rock hosted the LPGA Championship from 2005 through 2009.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2003. Highest (and previous) ranking: No. See reviews, photos, directions, phone numbers and more for the best Golf Cars & Carts in Brookridge, Brooksville, FL. Tobacco Road Golf Club 15.More about this course , Santa Cruz, Calif. / 831-459-9155 / pasatiempo.comAlister MacKenzie & Robert Hunter (1929)6,495 Yards, Par 70 / Points: 61.0755Pasatiempo is arguably Alister Mackenzie's favorite design. And likewise second-fiddle to No. Bandon, OR. 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. Previous ranking: No. Categories. But how can golf built on non-descript farmland compete with a course set on dramatic bluffs overlooking Lake Michigan? Meet the newcomers on our 2021/2022 Top 100 Courses You Can Play list By: Nick Piastowski May 4, 2021 Mammoth Dunes in Nekoosa, Wis. Highest ranking: No. Previous ranking: No. Jones's renovation was true to the philosophy of original architect Dick Wilson, who liked to pinch fairways with bunkers and surround greens with more bunkers, all of them deep.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2003. Previous ranking: No. It interprets the strategic spirit of Raynor and Chicago Golf Club without replicating any specific holes. Courses in italics are scheduled to played this year. Previous ranking: No. Far different than Bandon, with a manufactured landscape of lumps and bumps, far more bunkers, plus a couple of lakes, it nonetheless has the same fescue as at Bandon, so tee shots get plenty of roll and some approach shots can be bounced into flagsticks.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2011. Arcadia Bluffs has been overshadowed by No. Golf Digest Course Ranking 2021: You Get What You Charge For? 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.