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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.

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…