Category: Courses

Payne’s Valley combines Tiger Woods’ first U.S. public-access TGR Design with the natural drama of the Ozarks, finishing with an optional extra par-3 known as Big Rock.

Pacific Dunes is a Tom Doak design that uses natural dunes, shore pines and Atlantic-style links strategy on Oregon’s Pacific coast.

Ozarks National occupies high ground above the Missouri hills, where Coore & Crenshaw’s design uses ridges, native vegetation and sweeping views to create a strategic course that feels connected to its landscape.

Old Macdonald asks what C.B. Macdonald’s celebrated design ideas might look like on the Oregon coast. Tom Doak and Jim Urbina answer with bold template-inspired holes, vast greens, deep bunkers and classic links strategy.

Oakmont is one of America’s sternest championship tests: Henry Fownes’ inland-links design combines demanding bunkers, famously fast greens and the formidable Church Pews.

Mid Pines is a quiet classic of the North Carolina Sandhills: a Donald Ross design from 1921, restored by Kyle Franz in 2013 and shaped by rolling ground and longleaf pines.

Merion East is a compact but exacting Hugh Wilson design, famous for its wicker-basket flagsticks, brilliant green complexes and a championship record that includes Ben Hogan’s 1950 U.S. Open.

Mauna Kea is one of Hawaii Island’s landmark resort courses, set between black lava terrain and the Pacific. Its ocean-side holes, historic design and ongoing improvements make it a distinctive stop on the Kohala Coast.

Manele Golf Course is one of Hawaii’s most dramatic resort layouts, with Jack Nicklaus’ design moving across lava outcrops and cliff edges above the Pacific Ocean.

At Mammoth Dunes, David McLay Kidd turns the rolling sand country of central Wisconsin into a wide, playful golf landscape with huge fairways, expansive greens and memorable natural contours.