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Golf courses in the United States

Course profiles built from official and public sources: yardage, the hole to know, the season that suits the course and what a round costs.

Kiawah Island Club, River Course

On the bank of the Kiawah River, the private club's first course, a Tom Fazio par 72 of 7,119 yards opened in 1995, renovated…

Kern River Golf Course

Kern County's public course in Kern River County Park, above Lake Ming in Bakersfield: a hilly par 70 of 6,458 yards from the early…

Janesville Country Club

In Janesville, Wisconsin, the private club founded in 1894 by the Scot Alexander Galbraith, host of the first State Amateur in 1901: a par…

Indian Creek Golf Club

The City of Carrollton's 36-hole public complex north of Dallas: the Creek Course, a par 72 of 7,235 yards along the Elm Fork of…

Hyannisport Club

The private Hyannisport Club on Cape Cod: founded in 1897, redesigned by Donald Ross in 1936, a par 71 of 6,443 yards from the…

Huron Meadows Golf Course

The 18-hole course of Huron Meadows Metropark near Brighton, Michigan: a par 72 of 6,584 yards from the blue tees, designed by Sue Nyquist,…

Huntingdon Valley Country Club

In Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, a private club founded in 1897 whose 27 holes by William Flynn and Howard Toomey opened in 1928: a par…

Hillcrest Country Club, Boise

Boise's private club since 1940 and the only home of the Korn Ferry Tour's Boise Open since 1990: a par 71 of about 6,800…

Highland Park Golf Course

Birmingham's city-owned course, laid out in 1903 for the Country Club of Birmingham: a hilly par 70 of 5,801 yards where Bobby Jones won…

Harrison Park Golf Course

Danville's municipal course on the North Fork of the Vermilion River: a par 71 of 6,148 yards whose first nine dates from about 1910,…

Harbour Town Golf Links

Pete Dye's small, tree-lined par 71 in Sea Pines on Hilton Head Island, home of the RBC Heritage since 1969, restored by Love Golf…

Harbor City Golf Course

Melbourne's municipal course, formerly Mallards Landing: a flat par 72 of 6,748 yards from the Blue tees, rebuilt with new irrigation and greens in…

Green Hills Country Club

In Millbrae, south of San Francisco, a private Alister MacKenzie course opened in 1930 as the Union League club: a hilly par 71 of…

Glen View Club

In the village of Golf, Illinois, the private club that hosted the first Western Open in 1899 and the 1904 U.S. Open: a William…

Gillette Ridge Golf Club

In Bloomfield, Connecticut, an Arnold Palmer design opened in 2004 on Cigna's former headquarters land: a par 72 of up to 7,191 yards where…

Geneva Farm Golf Course

In northern Harford County, Maryland, a public par 72 opened in July 1990 on a former dairy farm: 6,482 yards of rolling ground by…

George Wright Golf Course

In Boston's Hyde Park, a Donald Ross municipal course blasted out of ledge and swamp with New Deal labor and opened in 1938: a…

Forest Hills Country Club

In Richmond, Indiana, the private club whose Bill Diddel course (1927 and 1931) and Tudor Revival clubhouse are on the National Register: a par…

Flossmoor Country Club

South of Chicago, the 1899 Tweedie course, now Flossmoor Golf Club, that hosted the 1920 PGA Championship and the 1923 U.S. Amateur: a private…

Firestone Country Club

In Akron, Ohio, a 54-hole private club founded in 1929: its South Course, a par 70 of 7,400 yards reworked by Robert Trent Jones…

Fiddler’s Elbow Country Club

A private club in Bedminster, New Jersey, with three 18-hole courses: the River and Meadow, from Hal Purdy's 1965 layout and Brian Silva's additions,…

Farm Neck Golf Club

A semi-private par 72 beside Sengekontacket Pond on Martha's Vineyard, born from a 1970s land-use fight, played by two presidents and renovated by Mark…

Fairbanks Ranch Country Club

A private 27-hole club near Rancho Santa Fe, opened in 1984 on the site of that year's Olympic equestrian endurance test, with three par-36…

El Caballero Country Club

A private club in Tarzana, Los Angeles: a Robert Trent Jones Sr. course from 1957, renovated by Rees Jones in 2021, par 71 of…

Edgewood Country Club

A private club founded in 1898 near Pittsburgh, whose Donald Ross course in Churchill opened on July 4, 1922: par 71 and 6,621 yards…

Eastern Hills Golf Club

A city-owned 27-hole public facility on the northeast side of Kalamazoo, Michigan: an 18-hole par 72 dedicated in 1959, a third nine added later,…

East Potomac Blue Course

The 18-hole Walter Travis course of East Potomac Golf Links in Washington, D.C.: a public par 72 of 6,599 yards on National Park Service…

East Lake Golf Club

Bobby Jones's home course in Atlanta: a private Donald Ross layout from 1913, restored by Andrew Green in 2024, par 72 for members and…

Dyker Beach Golf Course

A city-owned public course in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, rebuilt in 1935 to 1936: par 71, 6,438 yards, once the busiest course in the world…

Douglaston Golf Course

A hilly city-owned par 67 of about 5,500 yards in northeast Queens, opened on Labor Day 1927 as the private North Hills club and…

Disney’s Magnolia Golf Course

The longest course at Walt Disney World: a Joe Lee par 72 from 1971 that staged the final rounds of the PGA Tour's Disney…

Dinsmore Golf Course

A public New York State Parks course in Staatsburg, born as a private nine-hole club in the 1890s and expanded to 18 holes in…

Desert Forest Golf Club

A private Red Lawrence course opened in 1962 in Carefree, Arizona, often called the first true desert course: par 72, 7,203 yards, no out-of-bounds,…

Crow Valley Golf Club

A private John Cochran course opened around 1970 in Davenport, Iowa: par 71, about 6,700 yards, and the first home of the Quad Cities…

Crooked Stick Golf Club

Pete and Alice Dye's first major course, founded in 1964 in Carmel, Indiana: John Daly's 1991 PGA Championship, the 1993 U.S. Women's Open, the…

Country Club at Mirasol

A private 36-hole club in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida: Arthur Hills's Sunset Course (2001) and Tom Fazio's Sunrise Course (2003), hosts of the PGA…

Conway Farms Golf Club

A private Tom Fazio course opened in 1991 in Lake Forest, north of Chicago: three BMW Championships, Jim Furyk's 59 in 2013, a 2012…

Columbia Edgewater Country Club

Beside the Columbia River and Portland's airport, the private club A.V. Macan laid out in 1925: a par-71 course of 6,823 yards, home of…

Columbia Country Club

In Chevy Chase, Maryland, the private club where Jim Barnes won the 1921 U.S. Open before President Harding: a hilly par-70 course by Herbert…

Circling Raven Golf Club

Near Worley in the Idaho Panhandle, the Coeur d'Alene Tribe's public course: a Gene Bates design opened in 2003, 7,189 yards across 620 acres…

Chevy Chase Club

North of Washington, the private club founded in 1892 as a hunt: golf since 1895, a course shaped by Donald Ross and C.H. Alison,…

Cherry Hills Country Club

South of Denver, the private club William Flynn laid out in 1922: three U.S. Opens, two PGA Championships, Arnold Palmer's 65 of 1960, a…

Canyon Gate Country Club

On the west side of Las Vegas, a private Ted Robinson course built in 1989 inside a gated community: a par 72 of 6,769…

Canoe Brook Country Club

In Summit, New Jersey, a private club founded in 1901 with two par-72 courses, the North and the South, shaped by Travis, Alison, a…

Brookside Golf Club

Beside the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, a city-owned 36-hole complex designed by William P. Bell and opened in 1928: the long C.W. Koiner Course,…

BraeBurn Country Club

In southwest Houston, the private par 72 John Bredemus laid out in 1926, home club of Jimmy Demaret from 1936 to 1941, reshaped for…

Brookhaven Country Club

In Farmers Branch, north of Dallas, the private club Robert Dedman Sr. started in 1957, the first of what became ClubCorp: 54 holes on…

Blue Mound Golf & Country Club

In Wauwatosa, west of Milwaukee, the private club where Gene Sarazen won the 1933 PGA Championship: a par-70 Seth Raynor course of template holes,…

Wawashkamo Golf Club

On car-free Mackinac Island, the nine-hole links Alex Smith laid out in 1898 on the 1814 battlefield: played twice for a par 72 of…

Blue Hill Country Club

In Canton, south of Boston, a private 27-hole club: Skip Wogan's 1925 par 72 of 6,646 yards, host of the 1956 PGA Championship and…

Blackwolf Run

In Kohler, Wisconsin, two public Pete Dye courses on the Sheboygan River: the River, a par 72 of 7,404 yards, and the Meadow Valleys,…

Bel-Air Country Club

In the canyons of Bel Air, a private George Thomas course from the 1920s with tunnels, an elevator and a swinging bridge over the…

Baywood Greens

In Long Neck, near Rehoboth Bay, a public course opened in 1998 and 2000: a par 72 of 6,983 yards from the Blue tees,…

The Bay Club at Mattapoisett

In Mattapoisett, near Buzzards Bay, a private, member-owned club opened in 2004: a par 71 of 7,008 yards by Brad Booth and Brad Faxon,…

Bakersfield Country Club

A private club in the hills of northeast Bakersfield, credited to William P. Bell: a par 72 of 6,822 yards, host of the PGA…

Avon Fields Golf Course

A public, city-owned course on Reading Road, opened in 1914 and often called the oldest municipal course west of the Alleghenies: a par 66…

Atlanta Athletic Club

In Johns Creek, Georgia, Bobby Jones's old club and its two private courses: the Highlands, a par 72 of 7,613 yards that hosted the…

Anchorage Golf Course

On the hillside of South Anchorage, the municipal Bill Newcomb course opened in 1987: a par 72 of 6,601 yards and, in 2022, host…

Abenaqui Country Club

In Rye Beach, half a mile from the Atlantic, a private, member-owned club where golf began in 1899: a par 72 of 6,639 yards…

Rich Harvest Farms

Near Sugar Grove, Illinois, the private course Jerry Rich designed and built on his own farmland: a par 72 of 7,735 yards on published…

Rackham Golf Course

In Huntington Woods, next to the Detroit Zoo, the public Donald Ross course the Rackhams gave to Detroit in 1924: a par 71 of…

Point O’ Woods Golf & Country Club

Near Benton Harbor, Michigan, a private Robert Trent Jones Sr. course opened in 1958: a tree-lined par 72 with big, rolling greens that has…

Losantiville Country Club

In Pleasant Ridge, Cincinnati, the private club founded in 1902 by Jewish families shut out of other clubs: a hilly Tom Bendelow par 70…

Kemper Lakes Golf Club

In Kildeer, northwest of Chicago, the private Killian and Nugent course of 1979 where Payne Stewart won the 1989 PGA Championship: a par 72…

Inverness Club

In west Toledo, Ohio, the private Donald Ross course of 1918, restored by Andrew Green: a par 71 of 7,741 yards on the club's…

Eagle Springs Golf Resort

In Eagle, Wisconsin, a family-owned nine-hole course dating from 1893 and ranked 23rd among the world's best nines by Golf Magazine in 2020: par…

Fishers Island Club

On Fishers Island, New York, the private Seth Raynor course completed by Charles Banks and opened in 1926: a par 72 of about 6,600…

Eagle Crest Resort

On Ford Lake in Ypsilanti Township, Eastern Michigan University's public par 72: a Karl Litten design from 1989, renovated by Jim Lipe from 2012,…

Disney’s Palm Golf Course

At Walt Disney World, a Joe Lee par 72 from 1971 that co-hosted the PGA Tour's Disney event until 2012, redesigned by Arnold Palmer's…

Dearborn Hills Golf Course

In Dearborn, Michigan, a city-owned executive course opened by developer Robert Herndon in 1922 or 1923 and reputed to be the state's oldest public…

Bob O’Connor Golf Course

In Pittsburgh's Schenley Park, the city's only golf course, where golf has been played since 1897: a walking-only public nine of 2,400 yards and…

Wing Park Golf Course

In Elgin, Illinois, a public nine-hole par 36 laid out by Tom Bendelow and opened in 1908, listed on the National Register of Historic…

Village Club of Sands Point

On Long Island's North Shore, a private club owned by the Village of Sands Point on the former Guggenheim estate: a par 71 that…

University Ridge Golf Course

On the edge of Madison, the University of Wisconsin's public course: a Robert Trent Jones Jr. par 72 of 7,286 yards opened in 1991,…

Kansas City Country Club

In Mission Hills, Kansas, a private club founded in 1896: a par 70 by A. W. Tillinghast, rebuilt by Andrew Green in 2024 to…

Tam O’Shanter Golf Course

In Niles, Illinois, a public par 33 nine on the Chicago River, run by the Park District, on the ground where Lew Worsham holed…

TPC Sawgrass

In Ponte Vedra Beach, the home of THE PLAYERS since 1982: Pete Dye's Stadium Course, a par 72 of 7,275 yards with the island-green…

TPC River Highlands

Above the Connecticut River in Cromwell, the home of the Travelers Championship: a private par 70 of 6,880 yards, rebuilt by Pete Dye and…

TPC Boston

In Norton, Massachusetts, an Arnold Palmer course of 2002 remade by Gil Hanse: a private par 72 of 7,282 yards, slope 154 from the…

Sunset Ridge Country Club

A 1923 William Diddel par 71 on Chicago's North Shore, restored by Rick Jacobson in 2005: tree-lined corridors, fast back-to-front greens and a long…

Rolling Green Country Club

Founded in 1924 on a farm in Arlington Heights and rebuilt as 18 holes by William Diddel in 1927: a par 72 of old…

Riviera Country Club

George C. Thomas's 1927 canyon course in Pacific Palisades: a par 71 of kikuyu fairways, a bunker inside the 6th green and a 315-yard…

Riverside Golf Club

Founded in 1893 on the Des Plaines and rebuilt by William Langford in 1919: one of the oldest clubs in the country, and greens…

River Oaks Country Club

A Donald Ross course from 1923, redrawn by Joe Finger in the late 1960s: two philosophies on the same Houston ground, and greens built…

Ravisloe Country Club

Founded in 1901 as the first Jewish country club in Chicago, redrawn by Donald Ross, closed in 2008 and reopened to the public: small…

Plum Hollow Country Club

The Detroit club that staged the 1947 PGA Championship over 6,922 yards, in the match-play era: inter-war golf a few minutes from Oakland Hills.

Onwentsia Club

Seven holes on a senator's lawn in 1893, a Charles Blair Macdonald nine in 1895, the U.S. Open in 1906: a short par 71…

NorthStone Country Club

A P. B. Dye course from 1997 north of Charlotte: par 72, fourteen sets of tees from 4,400 yards, and a slope of 147…

North Hempstead Country Club

A. W. Tillinghast built it in 1916 at Port Washington, Trent Jones changed it in 1960 and Gil Hanse reopened it in 1996: a…

Mission Hills Country Club

Founded in 1914 to sell houses on the Kansas side of the line: a Bendelow layout renovated by Keith Foster, par 70 over 6,490…

Midlothian Country Club

Formed in 1898 and laid out by Herbert Tweedie: the course where a 21-year-old Walter Hagen won the 1914 U.S. Open, birdieing the last…

Longue Vue Club

Built from 1922 by Robert White, a St Andrews man who laid a green on the White House lawn: a par 70 across the…

Locust Hill Country Club

Nine holes on a farm in 1925, eighteen by Robert Trent Jones in 1931: thirty-seven straight years of LPGA golf, on a course that…

Lions Municipal Golf Course

Opened by the Austin Lions Club in 1924 and quietly desegregated in 1950, the first municipal course in the South to do so: short,…

Linden Hall

A 1959 course on a 785-acre estate in the Laurel Highlands, once a steelworkers' union retreat: par 72, no two fairways parallel, and hills…

Las Vegas Country Club

Opened in 1967 minutes from the Strip: a watered parkland par 72 of 7,150 yards on Bermuda, with a plane in the pond at…

Langston Golf Course

Opened in 1939 on a former city dump and named after the first African American elected to public office: the centre of Black golf…

Quail Hollow Club

Laid out by George Cobb in 1961 and rebuilt by Tom Fazio from 1997: a par 72 of 7,550 yards that rewards driving, and…

LPGA International

Thirty-six holes by Rees Jones and Arthur Hills at the LPGA's home in Daytona Beach: two very different courses, what they ask of you…

Key West Golf Club

The only course in the Keys and the southernmost in the continental United States: mangrove, iguanas and constant wind, and reviews that turn sharply…

Keney Park Golf Course

A 1927 Devereux Emmet municipal in Hartford, left to decline and then restored for the 2016 reopening: tumbling greens at resident prices, and what…

Indian Hills Country Club

Tillinghast in the Country Club District, opened in 1926 on ground he called one of his greatest opportunities: what survives three later remodels, and…

Hermann Park Golf Course

One of the first American golf courses genuinely desegregated, in 1954, still municipal in the middle of Houston: the golf, the announced renovation and…

Grover Cleveland Golf Course

The 1912 U.S. Open was decided here, when it was the Country Club of Buffalo: Travis and Ross bones on a shortened county course,…

Forest Hills Golf Club

The 1926 Ross course in Augusta where Bobby Jones began his Grand Slam year: rebuilt greens, strong local standing, and reviews that split on…

Farmington Country Club

Fred Findlay on Piedmont ground below the Blue Ridge, behind a clubhouse wing drawn by Thomas Jefferson in 1802: the golf, the history and…

Erin Hills

Hurdzan, Fry and Whitten on glacial ground north-west of Milwaukee, host of the 2017 U.S. Open: what it asks of you, and what players…

Detroit Golf Club

Two Donald Ross courses from 1918 on flat city ground, home of the Rocket Classic and freshly restored: what the architecture asks, and what…

Daytona Beach Golf Club

A 1921 Donald Ross course still owned by the city it was built for: turtleback greens at municipal rates, and reviews that divide sharply…

Congressional Country Club

Five majors outside Washington, and a 2020 Andrew Green rebuild that took down a thousand trees: what the Blue Course asks now, and where…

Congaree Golf Club

Fazio inside the Lowcountry longleaf, run by a foundation with Ambassadors instead of members: a sandbelt presentation in South Carolina, and what guests report.

Brown Deer Park Golf Course

The Milwaukee county course where Tiger Woods turned professional in 1996, and which held a PGA Tour event for two decades: the golf, the…

Brae Burn Country Club

Early Ross on rocky New England hills west of Boston, host of the 1919 U.S. Open: an admired routing, a weak set of par…

The Country Club of Birmingham

Two Ross courses in Shades Valley, one of them reworked by Robert Trent Jones and then by Pete Dye: three architects on one routing,…

Beverly Country Club

Donald Ross on a glacial ridge in the far south of Chicago, freshly opened up by a tree removal programme: the architecture, and what…

Augusta National Golf Club

MacKenzie and Jones on a former nursery, opened in 1932: what ninety years of alterations left standing, and what professionals actually say about the…

Arcadia Bluffs Golf Course

Opened in 1999 on 265 acres of bluff above Lake Michigan, designed by Warren Henderson and Rick Smith: what it asks of you, what…