Arcadia Bluffs Golf Club: Michigan’s Lakefront Links Experience
Arcadia Bluffs brings a links-style golf experience to Michigan’s Lake Michigan shoreline, with rolling native grasses, sod-walled bunkers, broad fairways and open-water views.
Category: Courses
Seminole Golf Club: Donald Ross’s Wind-Shaped Atlantic Dunes
Seminole is Donald Ross at his most imaginative: a private Atlantic-coast course routed between two long dune ridges, where the wind shifts and the strategic question changes from hole to hole.
Winged Foot Golf Club – West Course: A.W. Tillinghast’s Championship Classic
Winged Foot West is a landmark A.W. Tillinghast design, known for its demanding green complexes, bold bunkering and a championship history that includes six U.S. Opens.
Los Angeles Country Club – North Course: George Thomas Jr.’s Restored Classic
The North Course at Los Angeles Country Club is George C. Thomas Jr.’s celebrated 1928 design, restored by Gil Hanse and staged for the 2023 U.S. Open in the heart of Beverly Hills.
Chicago Golf Club: C.B. Macdonald’s First American 18-Hole Course
Chicago Golf Club is a foundation of American golf architecture: C.B. Macdonald laid out the country’s first 18-hole course for the club in 1893, before it moved to Wheaton in 1895.
Riviera Country Club: George Thomas’s Hollywood Hills Masterpiece
Riviera is George C. Thomas Jr.’s celebrated 1927 design, a classic Los Angeles course whose strategic barrancas, bold greens and famous short par-4 10th have shaped generations of championship golf.
Whispering Sands Golf Club: An Eighteen-Hole Sand Course in Al Jubail
Whispering Sands Golf Club is an 18-hole golf course in Al Jubail, in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province. The course is part of the area’s longstanding golf culture, where sand-based layouts developed alongside the industrial communities of the Gulf coast. Its traditional playing surface gives the club a distinctive place among the Kingdom’s golf venues and a different character from modern grass championship courses.
Awali Golf Club: Bahrain’s Historic Sand Course Since 1937
Awali Golf Club is one of Bahrain’s historic golf venues, set within the former oil-town community of Awali. The club’s roots reach back to the 1930s, when golf became part of the social and sporting life of the British and local communities around the oil industry. Its traditional sand-course format is part of the Gulf’s golfing heritage and offers a very different playing experience from the country’s modern grass championship course at Riffa.
Gezira Golf: A Historic Nine-Hole Course on Zamalek Island
Gezira Golf occupies a rare green space in central Cairo, within the long-established Gezira Sporting Club on Zamalek Island. The course is closely tied to the city’s sporting history and offers a compact round in a setting shaped by mature trees, established club grounds and the nearby Nile.
Stella Di Mare Sharm: A Nine-Hole Par-Three Course Overlooking the Red Sea
Stella Di Mare Sharm El Sheikh offers a compact golf experience within its resort on the Red Sea. The hotel’s short course is designed for guests who want to enjoy golf alongside the resort’s beach, diving and leisure facilities, with sea views providing the setting for a relaxed session or a focused short-game outing.