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Bucket-List Pilgrimages

The rounds you'll be telling stories about for years.

Major venues, once-in-a-lifetime destinations, and the courses every serious golfer keeps on the short list. Save up, book early, and go.

Bandon Dunes
Oregon Coast
Bandon Dunes
7 courses$$$ · May–Oct

Remote links resort on bluffs above the Pacific—five walking-only courses.

Cabot Cape Breton
Cape Breton Island
Cabot Cape Breton
3 courses$$$ · Jun–Oct

True seaside links on the Gulf of St. Lawrence—Cabot Links and Cabot Cliffs put tiny Inverness, Nova Scotia on every golfer's map.

Cabot Highlands
Moray Firth
Cabot Highlands
2 courses$$$ · May–Sep

Castle Stuart's fabled firth-side links, now joined by Tom Doak's Old Petty—Highland golf minutes from Inverness.

Cabot Saint Lucia
Cap Estate
Cabot Saint Lucia
1 course$$$$ · Jan–Dec

Point Hardy Golf Club—Coore & Crenshaw's cliff-top stunner on Saint Lucia's northern tip, where half the holes touch the Atlantic.

Destination Kohler
Sheboygan
Destination Kohler
5 courses$$$$ · May–Oct

Pete Dye's Whistling Straits—two miles of man-made Lake Michigan links with three PGAs and a Ryder Cup on the wall.

Erin Hills
Kettle Moraine
Erin Hills
1 course$$$ · May–Oct

The 2017 US Open host—heaving glacial fescue land northwest of Milwaukee, walking only, caddies worth every penny.

Half Moon Bay
Half Moon Bay
Half Moon Bay
2 courses$$$$ · May–Oct

Two championship courses along the San Mateo coast about 30 miles south of San Francisco, sharing a Ritz-Carlton perched over the Pacific—Palmer's inland routing and Arthur Hills' bluff-top links.

Lofoten Links
Lofoten Islands
Lofoten Links
1 course$$$ · Jun–Aug

Links golf above the Arctic Circle—oceanside holes among the rocks and, in high summer, tee times around the clock under the midnight sun.

PGA Frisco
Dallas–Fort Worth
PGA Frisco
4 courses$$$$ · Mar–Nov

The home of the PGA of America in Frisco, Texas: 36 championship holes by Gil Hanse and Beau Welling, a par-3 under the lights, and a purpose-built Omni resort—a future PGA Championship host you can actually play.

Pebble Beach Resorts
Monterey Peninsula
Pebble Beach Resorts
4 courses$$$$ · Apr–Oct

The pilgrimage—Pebble Beach Golf Links, Spyglass Hill and the 17-Mile Drive, where American resort golf was invented.

Pinehurst Resort
North Carolina Sandhills
Pinehurst Resort
11 courses$$$ · Mar–Nov

The cradle of American golf—eleven courses (and counting) in the Carolina sandhills, anchored by Donald Ross's No. 2.

Reynolds Lake Oconee
Lake Oconee
Reynolds Lake Oconee
5 courses$$$$ · Apr–Oct

Five resort courses across a 12,000-acre lakefront community in central Georgia, with the Ritz-Carlton as the gateway to Nicklaus, Rees Jones, Fazio and Cupp designs.

Sand Valley
Central Wisconsin
Sand Valley
6 courses$$$ · May–Oct

A sand-based dunes destination in central Wisconsin, with several distinct courses across one property.

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