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Walkable Links & Heathland

Caddie, push cart, or just your own two feet.

Golf the way it was meant to be played—firm and fast, walked from first tee to last. Rumpled fairways, revetted bunkers, and not a cart path in sight.

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.

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.

Gamble Sands
North Central Washington
Gamble Sands
3 courses$$$ · Apr–Oct

David McLay Kidd links above the Columbia River—wide, joyful golf.

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.

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.

Rodeo Dunes
Colorado High Plains
Rodeo Dunes
1 course$$$ · May–Oct

Dream Golf's next act—Coore & Crenshaw routing 90-foot dunes on Colorado's eastern plains, with public play from May 2027.

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.

South Puget Sound
Puget Sound
South Puget Sound
2 courses$$$ · Jan–Dec

Two public links on Washington's South Sound: Chambers Bay's U.S. Open venue and The Home Course, the state's literal home of golf—a half-hour apart, both walkable, both a fraction of resort prices.

Wild Spring Dunes
East Texas Pineywoods
Wild Spring Dunes
1 course$$ · Mar–Nov

Tom Doak's walk in the East Texas pines—Dream Golf's sandy, rumpled newcomer opens to the public September 2026.

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