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Course profiles

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.

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,…