Previous ranking: No. 100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2003. In this case its a sudden descent into the namesake quarry, including four holes benched into the rock walls around the perimeter. Shadow Creek plays like a musical composition in three movements, with alternating heavy beats and light moments, building to a resounding crescendo. 13, 2011-12. 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. Amateur win in 1959 and Annika Sorenstam's first U.S. Women's Open win in 1995. Highest (and previous) ranking: No. Highest ranking: No. / 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. Pebble Beach / 831-625-1513 / poppyhillsgolf.comRobert Trent Jones Jr. (1986)7,002 Yards, Par 71 | Points: 56.4317When originally built, Poppy Hills had unpopular perched greens framed by massive containment mounds. It's authentically Nevada on the edges, the barren areas akin to Wolf Creek in Mesquite, but its turfed areas, planted with date palms, ironwoods and willows, and crossed by endless babbling brooks, is something of a salute to nearby Shadow Creek. 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. The remaining holes are a stern hike through hills covered with majestic Monterey pines (which, sad to say, may someday disappear to pitch canker, but are being replaced in some areas with cypress trees). Five years ago, the former private club became semi-private, began accepting outside play and soon made our ranking of America's 100 Greatest Public Courses. 43, 2007-08. 15, 2003-04. Rankings | GolfCourseGurus Highest ranking: Current. 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. 28. Gothenburg, Neb. RANKING: Australia's Top-100 Public Access Courses for 2021 Cypress Point (CA) 4. That iteration struggled initially as well, but Rams Hill has now found its footing, in part by attracting pilgrimages from an eager contingent of traveling players. 42, 2017-18. Pete Dye's bold design spreads over 275 acres, with no homesites or amenities other than golf. Celebrating its 48 th anniversary in 2023, The Bay Course has long been dubbed as "Hawaii's favorite resort course." Public can mean different things when it comes to golf. 34, 2017-18. 20, 2005-06. Highest ranking: No. 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. World's Best Golf Trips: America's Top 100 Golf Vacations - Forbes Theres a stream that comes prominently into play, as well as an irrigation lake over which the par-3 11th plays, but there are just 19 trees on the course, mostly ancient oaks. Its most controversial hole is the short par-4 14th with a thumb of a green personally fashioned by Crenshaw. Our Top 100 Courses You Can Play 2021-22, sorted by state and region With overall rank, course name, city, state, architect and year opened. 100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2007. 37.More about this course . 2? 76 (previous). 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. 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. Why mess with history?100 Greatest Public History: 2017. 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. Berthoud, Colo. / 970-663-5063 / tpc.com/coloradoArt Schaupeter (2019)7,991 yards, par 72 / Score: 56.5501. Author: Golfdigest Pine Needles, just down the highway in Southern Pines, often gets overlooked. 49. Some of Fazios spacious holes are molded into the desert earth and others ride the up and down rocky elevations, leading to a finish that includes the short par-4 17th and gamblers par-5 18th that streaks downhill around a water feature. 100 Greatest Public History: Ranked on inaugural list through 2015-2016. This obviously meant that were 100 courses to play, but since the magazine releases a new list every two years, new courses are added as others are removed. Highest ranking: No. Cascata plays mostly uphill on the front, downhill on the longer back nine. 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. / 888-285-5375 / bullerock.comPete Dye (1998)7,375 Yards, Par 72 / Points: 56.4285This great course is built on the old Blenheim Farm, which had been the home of many thoroughbred race horses. 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. The five opening holes, in Pine Valley-like sand dunes, are an all-too-brief encounter with the Pacific seacoast. Formerly the site of a different, much narrower golf course, Coore & Crenshaw found ways to widen many of the same spaces and added new holes on previously unused parts of the property. Highest ranking: No. Highest ranking: No. Highest ranking: No. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Crosswater/Mike Houska www.doglegstudios.com. North Carolina | Top 100 Golf Courses | Top 100 Golf Courses 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. GOLF DIGEST MAY EARN A PORTION OF SALES FROM PRODUCTS THAT ARE PURCHASED THROUGH OUR SITE AS PART OF OUR AFFILIATE PARTNERSHIPS WITH RETAILERS. / 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 17th has spawned over a hundred imitation island greens in the past 30 years. 32, 2017-18.More about this course . Previous ranking: No. Those seven holes (6 & 7, 10 & 11 and 16 through 18) are lined with tall pines and cedars and bring to mind a collection of holes in the Colorado Rockies. Highest ranking: No. Article: Golf Digest Top 100 US Golf Courses 2021-2022. 59, ranked slightly higher than its reverse image Red Course. 60, 2015-16. Highest ranking: 35th, 2003-2004. Previous ranking: No. 43. BlackHorse Golf Club Cypress This 36-hole course is wedged inside the BlackHorse Ranch community, about 35 minutes northwest of downtown Houston. On one hand the design needs to be enjoyable for students, faculty and local play, and on the other it has to have the mettle to test the skills of the best amateurs in the country. America's 100 Greatest Public Courses | Courses | Golf Digest Broad chipping collars slide off elevated greens. 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. Previous ranking: No. 16, 2005-06 & 2011-12. 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. As a sign on the first tee states, Bethpage Black is an extremely difficult course recommended only for highly skilled players. Located in the Sierra Nevada foothills 50 miles northwest of Reno, this is getaway, escapist golf and a refreshing trek through nature. 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. 4, 2003-04. Previous ranking: No. The 2022 Top 100. The Resort at Glade Springs (Stonehaven) T147. Highest ranking: 79th, 2011-2012. Previous ranking: No. The Bob Cupp design is far more subtle than a Wayne western, with low-profile greens edged by graceful chipping areas and fairways intersected repeatedly by the Big and Little Dechutes rivers. Public relishes, Golf Digest's Top 100 public access courses in the country. Architect: Jack Nicklaus. Bibawik, Minn. / 800-688-7669 / giantsridge.comJeff Brauer (2003)7,201 Yards, Par 72 / Points: 59.2455It doesn't get the press that courses such as Bandon Dunes, Pacific Dunes, Whistling Straits or Arcadia Bluffs, but The Quarry at Giants Ridge plays very links-like with its collection of fairway speed slots, greenside backboards and backstops and reverse-camber greens. The answer? Highest ranking: Current ranking. 44, 2017-18. 231-439-4028 / bayharborgolf.comArthur Hills, with Stephen Kircher (1998)6,845 Yards, Par 72 / Points: 57.6225One of three grand "new Pebble Beaches" that debuted in the late 1990s, Bay Harbor was ranked third in Golf Digest's survey of Best New Upscale Public Courses of 1999, behind the twin juggernauts (and fellow Pebble Beach clones) Bandon Dunes and Whistling Straits. 55. Once COVID restrictions are lifted, Yale expects to open to outside play, thus the inclusion on this list at No. Portola, Calif. / 530-322-5575 / grizzlyranchliving.com Bob Cupp (2005) 7,411 yards, par 72 / Score: 56.3960. It will host the 2024 U.S. Open.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2003. (fifth hole pictured above),. / 662-524-1000 / mossyoakgolf.comGil Hanse (2016)7,212 Yards, Par 72 / Points: 57.7544George Bryan, who also owns No. (The companion Blue Course, a Tom Doak design, is ranked No. Our new 2021 ranking of America's 100 Greatest Public Courses will help lead the way (RELATED: The best courses in. At over 6,000 feet elevation the ball flies roughly 10-percent farther than at sea level, and you can cross two items off your all-50-state bucket list by playing here as the ninth hole crosses the state line into California. Original owner Joe Jemsek wanted a ball-busting championship course when it was built back in the mid-1960s. Stateline, Nev. / 775-588-3566 / edgewoodtahoe.comGeorge Fazio (1968)7,529 yards, par 72 / Score: 56.6713. 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. 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. 46. In 2005, for example, 16 new courses were added so there were now 116 golf courses to be tackled. The untouched Woods 9, now considered the resort's walking course, provides a graphic reminder of how golf has changed in five decades.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2013. 29, 2011-12. Previous ranking: No. 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. 66. The finish line is a course away. 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 Havre de Grace, Md. West Point, Miss. The ample homes that occasionally appear along. 57 Wilderness Club, this is a destination course worth hiking to play.100 Greatest Public History: Ranked since 2017-18. 22, 2007-08. For consistency across our platforms, we have omitted Point O' Woods but kept the rest of the ranking intact. 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. If complaints from the pros about its difficulty was an indication, the remodel was a profound success. There are very wide and deep greens here, too, so a depth chart is a must. 33, 2005-06. Pine Needles has hosted three U.S. Women's Opens, so was it being overlooked when the 2014 U.S. Women's Open was conducted at Pinehurst No. Previous ranking: No. Three mountain ranges surround the site: the Whitefish, Purcell and Rockies Mountains. Where The Quarry uses slopes and ramps, Wilderness rewards aerial play, with some high-low alternate fairways, lake-edged greens and a pair of drop-shot par 3s. Highest ranking: No. The classic routing has the front nine turning clockwise through forest while the back nine circles counter-clockwise. Golf Cars & Carts (352) 796-0403 1150 Ponce De Leon Blvd Brooksville, FL 34601 4. 3. Those soaring views were opened up even further, revisions were made to the bunkers and greens, and a new 18th hole was built on a previously inaccessible ledge of land farther out over the precipice of the mountain. Tobacco Road Golf Club Macdonald's nearly 100-year-old design of the Old White at The Greenbrier was always respected, but after Lester George's restoration (re-establishing such things as a Principal's Nose bunker and Dragon's Teeth mounds), Golf Digest panelists rediscovered its pleasures and ranked it the Best New Public Remodel of 2007. 53. Highest ranking: No. Pete Dye and his companions have twice played the course from those tees in less than three-and-a-half hours, on foot. They reduced the irrigation to mere single rows in fairways to prevent grass from ever returning to the new sandy wastelands. Highest (and previous) ranking: No. Previous ranking: No. 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. 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. 54, 2015-16. 27, 2017-18.More about this course , Hollister, Mo. Less heralded are his courses from the 1970s. Mike Keiser tapped Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw to convert it into Bandon Dunes fifth regulation 18-hole course and Coore and Crenshaws second. Highest ranking: No. With a routing that features 10 holes on Lake Oconee, Jack and his associate Jim Lipe worked hard to vary the encounters with water. Highest ranking: No. Sometimes it's difficult in remote areas of US too! 12, 2011-12. Myrtle Beach / 855-409-2177 / thedunesclub.netRobert Trent Jones (1949) / Robert Trent Jones (R.1959)7,450 Yards, Par 72 | Points: 57.6094Its ocean-side dunes are mostly covered with turfgrass and mature trees now, but when Robert Trent Jones built The Dunes back in the late 1940s, the property was primarily windswept sand dotted with lagoons. Course Rankings. 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. Golfers' Choice 2021: Best golf courses in Texas - Golf Advisor Its very inventive design also demands some aerial play, too. But how can golf built on non-descript farmland compete with a course set on dramatic bluffs overlooking Lake Michigan? 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.