Tom Doak, 2001 8. Shinnecock Hills (NY) How times change. That should just add to its popularity.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2013. Right and left, and up and down, GOLF's list of the Top 100 courses in the U.S. for 2020/2021 covers the country. Highest (and previous) ranking: No. Its not wise for a rebel force to stand toe-to-toe against an empiresuccess depends upon more radical measures. Overall, it was a year of movement with 17 courses debuting or returning after an absence. The South Course is a throwback in time, a jigsaw puzzle of intersecting bunkers, centerline hazards, alternate routes of play and geometric shaping. 57. Highest ranking: No. Previous ranking: No. Public can mean different things when it comes to golf. It's not a set equation of 'if-then'. Previous ranking: No. New York is first, with 16 courses in. 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. West Point, Miss. He challenges talented players, including the Hoosiers golf teams, with length, subtly angled drives, compressed landing areas bordered by light rough and contouring slopes around the edges of greens. The Resort at Glade Springs (Stonehaven) T147. But give Tom Doak credit for convincing a client to take a chance on an 18-hole reversible layout. Previous ranking: No. Hanses design takes advantage of a prominent diagonal ridge that runs across the site and his routing works up, down and sideways across that landform. The 17th has spawned over a hundred imitation island greens in the past 30 years. 44, 2017-18. The Red Course is the counterclockwise routing of The Loop, and as the name suggests, both it and the Black Course play out to ninth holes at a far corner of the property, then back in. Highest ranking: No. 75 Old Waverly, gave Gil Hanse land directly to its north and asked him to build a public course good enough to serve as the new home course for Mississippi State Universitys golf teams. 100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2003. Prrevious ranking: No. But for survey purposes, Golf Digest evaluates the River 18 available for general play.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2003. Highest ranking: No. 28. Any trip to Pinehurst should include a round on this gem.100 Greatest Public History: 2017. Course descriptions by Ron Whitten and Derek Duncan. The design rewards shaped drives and precise approaches that come in high. Previous ranking: No. 51, 2013-14. Carts are allowed, although confined to cart paths. Sometimes it's difficult in remote areas of US too! 9 1990)7,404 Yards, Par 72 | Points: 61.1407Only Pete Dye could have convinced owner Herb Kohler to rip apart an award-winning course and still come out a winner. Highest ranking: Current. 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. 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. 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. Highest ranking: No. Pebble Beach. The trio of designers, playfully dubbed "The Holy Trinity," thoughtfully shaped an 18 that looks natural, plays strategically and is sensitive to the coastal wetland environment.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2003. 12, 2011-12. The course design by veteran British architect Donald Steel is austere in its green contours and bunkering, as if not to overpower the setting.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2011. Jack Neville/Douglas Oregon (7) 3. Highest (and previous) ranking: No. The Best Golf Courses in Louisiana. 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. Original owner Joe Jemsek wanted a ball-busting championship course when it was built back in the mid-1960s. 20. 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. 47. Although the Sheboygan River isn't in play as much on Meadows Valley as it is on the River (the 18th hole plays over it), there are plenty of deep bunkers and tricky pin positions.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2009. 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. And even by Whistling Straits, the imitation links on the opposite side of Lake Michigan that Arcadia Bluffs resembles, although the sand dunes at Arcadia are natural, not manmade. It was Golf Digest's Best New Private Course of 1990.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2003. The ninth tee is 600 feet above the clubhouse; it reportedly snowed on the ninth one day while people were dining on the clubhouse patio below.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2003. In the late 1950s, Robert Trent Jones was hired to take a somewhat benign and toothless layout built in the 1920s for employees of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company and toughen it up for the 1960 PGA Championship, much like what he did in turning Oakland Hills South into a monster prior to the 1951 U.S. Open. As we wrote back in 2005, "its options outnumber its rock outcroppings, and there are outcroppings galore. A ridgeline separates the two courses (the ridge is designated as a wildlife corridor), with the Norman 18 positioned on an old sheep ranch on the western slope, affording long-range views of the Rockies to the west and south as well as gorgeous sunsets. Many putts that look uphill are actually running downhill. 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. So while Mammoth Dunes has the widest fairways in American golf, Streamsong Black now has the biggest greens in the country.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2017-18. Pine Valley (NJ) 2. For pure golfing variety, Prairie Club rivals even Bandon Dunes.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2015. BlackHorse Golf Club Cypress This 36-hole course is wedged inside the BlackHorse Ranch community, about 35 minutes northwest of downtown Houston. 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. 24 on Golf Digest Americas 100 Greatest Courses ranking. Holes like the par-5 eighth and par-4 14th climb up long slopes, while dazzling par 3s at six and 16 plunge dramatically downhill. 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. 33, 2017-18. 10, 2005-12. The goal is to have two very different courses over the same piece of ground, so people will want to stay over to play it both ways and compare and contrast the two. says Doak. Previous ranking: No. Southern Pines, N.C. / 800-747-7272 / pineneedles-midpines.comDonald Ross (1928) / Donald Ross (R.1937)7,062 Yards, Par 71 | Points: 57.1713Whenever golfers visit Pinehurst, they always book rounds at Pinehurst No. Macdonald and Seth Raynor. (It's walking only on the Straits. Previous ranking: No. 55, 2015-2016. 66, 2009-10. Previous ranking: No. Highest ranking: No. Nos. The Black Course is the clockwise routing, slightly shorter and, at No. Managed by Troon, Kapalua Golf & Tennis features two 18-hole golf courses (The Plantation and The Bay). The desert can be a harsh environment, both physically and economically. 26, Golf Digest's Best New Course of 2014 award, clubcorp.com/clubs/firestone-country-club. To make the layout even more exciting during tournament play, Steve Wenzloff of PGA Tour Design Services remodeled several holes, most significantly the 12th, which will now be a drivable par 4.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2003. 2 and killed out all the Bermuda grass rough that had been foolishly planted in the 1970s. 6.More about this course , 888-345-6008 / bandondunesgolf.comDavid McLay Kidd (1999)6,732 Yards, Par 72 / Points: 63.3123Maybe not as visually mesmerizing as Whistling Straits (which it beat for Best New Upscale Public Course of 1999), but talented golfers consider Bandon Dunes to be the consummate shotmaker's course, as good a total examination of one's game as there is in America. Arcadia Bluffs has been overshadowed by No. 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. Highest ranking: No. Tillinghast (1936)7,468 Yards, Par 71 / Points: 63.1529Gone are its rock hard tees, gravely bunkers, patchy fairways and thatchy greens. Each hole looks intimidating from the tee but reveals plenty of elbow room for tee shots and approaches, as well as spin-outs and crash landings.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2009. Cascades was ranked by Golf Digest as one of America's 100 Greatest for 40 years and is No. Less heralded are his courses from the 1970s. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Crosswater/Mike Houska www.doglegstudios.com. The back nine, playing repeatedly over deep barrancas, is a test for even the most talented. As with all courses in the TPC network, TPC Colorado was designed with an eye toward hosting professional events (it hosts a tournament on the Korn Ferry Tour), and at the mile-high altitude that mandates the ability to stretch out to 8,000 yards or more. Highest ranking: No. Highest (and previous) ranking: No. Playing firm and fast, it was a wildly successful fortnight when the 2014 Men's and Women's U.S. This course, formerly known as Canyon Ridge, opened in 2005 to regional acclaim in large part due to several holes that crept out to the edge of Lookout Mountain in northwest Georgia, peering down to a valley floor several hundred feet below. 26 and the Black course is 34th.) 11, 2005-06. 46. Please see the footnote at the end of this ranking. 33, 2005-06. He became a virtual household name in the 1980s after creating sensations like The Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass, PGA West and Blackwolf Run, and the fame continued throughout the 90s and for the rest of his careerat The Ocean Course, Whistling Straits,The Dye Course at French Lick and numerous othersuntil his passing in 2020. 2, on whose restoration crew Franz had worked. 17, 2017-18. Previous ranking: No. Highest ranking: No. Previous ranking: No. 39.More about this course . It has too much rub-of-the-green for the comfort levels of many tour pros, two dozen of whom will tackle the Straits again in the 2021 Ryder Cup.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2003. 33, 2003-04. Every hole is edged by sawgrass, every green has tricky slopes, every bunker merges into bordering sand dunes. It should be higher. Sand Valley (Sand Valley) 7.52 Nekoosa, Wis.; Bill Coore, Ben Crenshaw (m) Best 30 under 30: The top golf courses opened since 1992. Previous ranking: No. 63. 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. Bottom-line: Blue is no little brother. 43. Its called Greywalls because of all the granite rock outcroppings that edge some holes and squeeze others, like the short par-4 fifth, and because the rock provides the rugged topography over which this course scampers up and plunges down. To distinguish it from the adjacent Coore-Crenshaw Sand Valley design (ranked No. 13.More about this course , Photo Credit: Nile Young Photography/Courtesy of Arcadia Bluffs GC, Bandon, Ore. / 888-345-6008 / bandondunesgolf.comBill Coore & Ben Crenshaw (2020)6,636 yards, par 72 / Points: 61.5402. Patrick Koenig View: Index 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 01 Pinehurst (No.2) 74. Pawleys Island, S.C. / 800-483-6800 / fishclub.comMike Strantz (1994)6,526 Yards, Par 70 / Points: 56.6737Caledonia, the first solo design in the short, brilliant career of Mike Strantz, is an 18 shoehorned into an oak-dotted sand-dune parcel so tight that the ninth is a pitch-shot par 3 over the entry road to a wide green that's smaller than the bunker fronting it. 79 on this year's ranking. Previous ranking: No. Sheep Ranch began life as a different Sheep Ranch in the early 2000s, a rag-tag, cross-country, 13-hole course with no irrigation built by Tom Doak on a bluff just north of what would later become Old Macdonald. Previous 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. Haven, Wis. / 855-444-2838 / whistlingstraits.comPete Dye (2000)7,201 Yards, Par 72 / Points: 58.5657The Irish Course has the same manufactured dunescape found on its more famous sister Straits Course, but has three major differences. Highest ranking: No. (RELATED: The best courses in every state). Highest ranking: No. 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. Do resort courses count, where an accompanying room night might be required to play? 20, 2005-06. Architect: Jack Nicklaus. / 877-805-4657 / fallenoak.comTom Fazio (2006)7,487 Yards, Par 72 / Points: 58.8847Although it didn't get built for another 15 years, Fallen Oak was first conceived in the early 1990s by Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn soon after Tom Fazio had completed Shadow Creek. Whats most impressive in playing the Red (and the Black, for that matter), is that there is never the sensation of playing a hole backwards. Wilson -- a national-caliber course -- and Harding were built in the early '20s by George Thomas, whose other LA courses include the North Course at LACC, Riviera, and Bel Air. It was the site of Jack Nicklaus's first U.S. Pacific Dunes. As golf continues to shed its reputation as a sport of exclusion, SCOREGolf has made the decision to disqualify any clubs that are not gender inclusive in their membership policies from eligibility for the Top 100. Primland sits atop a mountain plateau overlooking some of the most unusual scenery in America, a deep river valley dotted with tall spirals of rock. Melbourne's third oldest golf club returns to the Top 100 Courses fold for the first time since 2000 on the strength of several holes redesigned by Graeme Grant, a conversion to Santa Ana couch fairways and bentgrass greens plus a smart approach to tree management. To make The Bull equally attractive, Team Nicklaus went full commando with the design, using all the available assets of the 400-acre site to build broad meadow holes in the meadows, tightrope holes through the woods, and shorties along and across the winding Onion River. It's also a bit more compact, since the Blue sits in the center with the Red Course looping around its outside edges. 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. Additionally, many are equipped with clubhouses, restaurants, lounges, resorts with swimming pools and driving carts for vacationers to have a perfect golf-themed holiday. Highest (and previous) ranking: No. 72. The rolling greens and rumpled fairways are framed by rugged sand dunes and marvelously grotesque bunkers. Why mess with history?100 Greatest Public History: 2017. 41. Top Public Golf Courses in Excel Sheet Hi All, So I couldnt find this anywhere, but I created a free google sheet which includes all of the Top 100 US Public Golf Courses from Golf Digest (both the 2015-2016 rankings and 2017-2018 rankings) along with the Golf.com 2017 top 100 rankings. Spread across an open, windswept plateau, using many of the same greensites, Coore managed to triangulate the holes in such a way that nine now touch the cliff edge along the Pacific Ocean. Highest ranking: No. At Big Cedar Lodge, Missouri's largest golf resort with five courses, including the nation's only public 18-hole design by Tiger Woods, 2020 was record year and 2021 bookings have been so. 38, 2013-14. Sanford, N.C. / 877-284-3762 / tobaccoroadgolf.comMike Strantz (1999)6,557 Yards, Par 71 | Points: 58.3597The late Mike Strantz was the game's most unconventional course designer, and Tobacco Road was perhaps the best example of his unorthodoxy. 33 Forest Dunes, a fine Tom Weiskopf design. Rees Jones's remodeling of the South Course in the early 2000s not only made it competitive for the 2008 U.S. Open, it brought several coastal canyons into play for everyday golfers, especially on the par-3 third and par-4 14th. 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. Highest ranking: No. Highest ranking: No. Previous ranking: No. But the course is also broad where handicap players drive the ball, the greens are open in front and the bunkers are shallow. 800-654-9300 / pebblebeach.comJack Neville & Douglas Grant (1919)/Herbert Fowler (R. 1920)7,075 Yards, Par 72 / Points: 67.3675Pebble Beach has been the No. There are numerous tips of the hat to TPC originator Pete Dye, including a fair smattering of sod-faced pot bunkers dotted throughout the fairways, but the design pulls from many sources. Macdonald (1915) / Lester George (R.2006) 7,246 Yards, Par 70 / Points: 59.1852 C.B. 50. Once a member of Golf Digest Americas 100 Greatest Courses, Edgewood Tahoe is as telegenic as they come, with fairways framed by stately pines, greens flanked by sparkling ponds and several holes positioned on Lake Tahoe, including the final three. 100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2007. In all, 30 states are represented. Designed by Jack Nicklaus and ushering in a new era of golf in China, the World Cup course at Mission Hills was named one of the most influential golf courses in the world in 2008. The par-3 seventh has another explanation entirely. Royal Auckland and Grange Golf Club Tamaki course. Previous ranking: No. The late golf writer Charlie Price, who lived on the island, took one look at it and dubbed it a "waste bunker." 800-345-6008 / bandondunesgolf.comBill Coore & Ben Crenshaw (2005)6,788 Yards, Par 71 / Points: 62.0223Bandon Trails might be ranked lower than some of its counterparts at Bandon like Pacific Dunes and Old Macdonald, but weve long considered it such a compelling layout that it needs no seascape to command ones attention. In this case its a sudden descent into the namesake quarry, including four holes benched into the rock walls around the perimeter. 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. The flower beds are treated as lateral hazards.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2017. Hammond & Co. asked Golf Digest in 1962 to select the best. Bluffton, S.C. / 866-706-6565 / palmettobluff.comJack Nicklaus (2004)7,171 Yards, Par 72 / Points: 58.3870Built some 35 years after nearby Harbour Town Golf Links, May River is an interesting contrast in Jack Nicklaus's portfolio. / 308-537-7700 / playwildhorse.com Dan Proctor & Dave Axland (1999) 6,955 yards, Par 72 / Points: 57.2343 Proctor and Axland, two of the country's best golf course shapers (they've worked on many Coore & Crenshaw projects) also team on occasion to build high-quality, low-profile, low-budget daily-fee layouts. The best public golf experiences in the country based on over 265,000 reviews from our golfer community. Highest (and previous) ranking: No. Photo Credit: Northern California Golf Association. 4, insisting it's too hard for high handicappers. 34, 2017-18. The 496-yard par-4 seventh is the same shape and dimensions as the 10th at Augusta National and the back tees of the par-4 17th, atop a butte, affords perhaps the best vista in New Mexico. 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. Courses in BOLD have been played by Billy; a total of 84 so far. The pond supplies Kapalua's sprinkler system, which is pressurized solely by gravity.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2003. What did they expect? Highest ranking: Present. 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. Bandon Trails might be ranked lower than some of its counterparts at Bandon like Pacific Dunes and Old Macdonald, but weve long considered it such a compelling layout that it needs no seascape to command ones attention. 59. Highest (and previous) ranking: No. May 03, 2021 I got several fine laughs reading Golf Digest's "2021-2022 ranking of America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses", which was touted as being "ready for its close-up" by authors Derek Duncan and Stephen Hennessey. "100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2003. In the early 1990s when Black Diamond Ranchs Quarry Course was the hot new thing on the block, it charted as high as No. 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. This list represents the 2020 list from Golf Digest's Top 100 Public Golf Courses. On one hole it's a carry off a tee, on another, it's beside a green, while on a couple, it's a cove in front of a green. 19.More about this course . Highest ranking: No. Previous ranking: No. Every golfer should experience Shadow Creek at least once. (May 2021 - May 2023) GOLF DIGEST Top 100 PUBLIC Golf Courses in AMERICA: The list that Joe Q. To best utilize ocean frontage, Tom Doak came up with a unorthodox routing that includes four par 3s on the back nine. Players use the one across the highway at sister course True Blue, another Strantz gem.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked 2003-10 & since 2013. / 888-402-1101 / theprairieclub.comGraham Marsh (2010)7,403 Yards, Par 73 / Points: 56.3556Not as pure a Nebraska sandhills experience as sister Dunes Course, which is ranked No. Top 200 Resort Golf Courses in the U.S. in 2022 17. 17, 2003-04. Highest ranking: No. Highest ranking: No. 164 open jobs for Cart golf in Brooksville. But they wisely left the legendary 18th nearly untouched. Current count is 99 out of 100. Previous ranking: No. Pebble hosted another U.S. 64. 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. The classic routing has the front nine turning clockwise through forest while the back nine circles counter-clockwise. THE PETE DYE CSE. Its original concept was to be a simple, affordable, lay-of-the-land layout that proved Mother Nature is indeed the best golf architect. The holes are either very long or tantalizingly gettable. The Alcatraz hole at PGA West's Stadium course. 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. "Even the island green seventh hole is a generous target. Ranked 49th in Golf Digest's 100 Greatest Public Courses in 2021, this Mike Strantz layout needs to be seen (and played) to be believed. Though it has slipped from that lofty parapet, the course is still the same. 1 . Cascata plays mostly uphill on the front, downhill on the longer back nine. Berthoud, Colo. / 970-663-5063 / tpc.com/coloradoArt Schaupeter (2019)7,991 yards, par 72 / Score: 56.5501. The drivable par-4 14th is based on Brian Silvernails winning design from Golf Digests 2016 Armchair Architect contest.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2017-18. Photographs: Opening photo of Tobacco Road: Brian Oar; Others: Courtesy of Dom Furore, Stephen Szurlej, J.D. (The boomerang-shaped par-5 13th is called Waterloo.) Highest ranking: No. Linville Golf Club (1892) is however considered the Tar Heel state's oldest golf club. West Point, Miss. 18, 2009-10. Highest ranking: No. With three reachable par 4s on the 18, that's a possibility.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2017. Highest ranking: Current. Previous ranking: No. Three mountain ranges surround the site: the Whitefish, Purcell and Rockies Mountains. The Stanwich Club at Greenwich competes a trio of top-drawer golf courses for the Constitution State. Still others are edged by manmade irrigation lakes or natural desert washes. / 662-494-6463 / oldwaverly.comBob Cupp & Jerry Pate (1988)7,088 Yards, Par 72 / Points: 57.1303A carefully crafted design, Old Waverly was No. 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. The course concludes with Dye's favorite finish, a gambling par-5 16th, a 17th over water (in this case, 205 yards) and a now-strong par-4 18th.