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45 destinations
▦ Amelia Island
1
Amelia Island
Amelia Island
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3 courses
$$$ · Oct–May
Barrier-island resort golf on Florida's First Coast—Pete Dye's marsh-woven Oak Marsh and Tom Fazio's oceanfront Long Point, plus a ten-hole par-3, wrapped in beaches and moss-draped oaks.
▦ Bandon Dunes
2
Oregon Coast
Bandon Dunes
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8 courses
$$$ · May–Oct
Remote links resort on bluffs above the Pacific—five walking-only courses.
▦ Bethpage State Park
3
Long Island
Bethpage State Park
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5 courses
$$ · May–Oct
Five state-park courses topped by the Black—Tillinghast's walking-only brute that hosts majors and still charges muni rates.
▦ Black Desert Resort
4
Greater Zion
Black Desert Resort
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1 course
$$$$ · Mar–Nov
Tom Weiskopf's final design, routed through black lava fields beneath red rock cliffs outside St. George—already a PGA Tour host.
▦ Cabot Bordeaux
5
Médoc
Cabot Bordeaux
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2 courses
$$ · Apr–Oct
Two championship courses amid the vineyards of the Médoc—Bill Coore's Châteaux and Rod Whitman's Vignes, with Bordeaux's wine route out the back gate.
▦ Cabot Cape Breton
6
Cape Breton Island
Cabot Cape Breton
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3 courses
$$$ · Jun–Oct
True seaside links on the Gulf of St. Lawrence—Cabot Links and Cabot Cliffs put tiny Inverness, Nova Scotia on every golfer's map.
▦ Cabot Citrus Farms
7
Florida Nature Coast
Cabot Citrus Farms
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4 courses
$$$ · Jan–Dec
Cabot's Florida outpost—rolling sand ridges an hour north of Tampa, with two full courses and two short courses built for winter escapes.
▦ Cabot Highlands
8
Moray Firth
Cabot Highlands
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2 courses
$$$ · May–Sep
Castle Stuart's fabled firth-side links, now joined by Tom Doak's Old Petty—Highland golf minutes from Inverness.
Opening 2027
▦ Cabot Revelstoke
9
Columbia Mountains
Cabot Revelstoke
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Coming soon
$$$ · Jun–Sep
Cabot Pacific—a Whitman, Axland & Cutten design on a mountain bench above Revelstoke, opening 2027.
▦ Cabot Saint Lucia
10
Cap Estate
Cabot Saint Lucia
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1 course
$$$$ · Jan–Dec
Point Hardy Golf Club—Coore & Crenshaw's cliff-top stunner on Saint Lucia's northern tip, where half the holes touch the Atlantic.
▦ Carlsbad
11
North County San Diego
Carlsbad
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2 courses
$$$ · Jan–Dec
Two Gil Hanse–rebuilt courses at a Spanish-Colonial resort in Carlsbad—the NCAA championship North Course, long the Tournament of Champions venue, and its gentler South companion, twenty minutes from the North County San Diego beaches.
▦ Carolina Sandhills
12
North Carolina Sandhills
Carolina Sandhills
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2 courses
$$ · Mar–Nov
Strantz country beyond Pinehurst—Tobacco Road's blind dunes and Tot Hill Farm's rock-and-creek fever dream.
▦ Central Oregon (Bend)
13
Central Oregon
Central Oregon (Bend)
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2 courses
$$ · Jun–Sep
High-desert golf hub near Bend—an easy Oregon add-on.
▦ Destination Kohler
14
Sheboygan
Destination Kohler
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5 courses
$$$$ · May–Oct
Pete Dye's Whistling Straits—two miles of man-made Lake Michigan links with three PGAs and a Ryder Cup on the wall.
▦ Erin Hills
15
Kettle Moraine
Erin Hills
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1 course
$$$ · May–Oct
The 2017 US Open host—heaving glacial fescue land northwest of Milwaukee, walking only, caddies worth every penny.
▦ Gamble Sands
16
North Central Washington
Gamble Sands
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3 courses
$$$ · Apr–Oct
David McLay Kidd links above the Columbia River—wide, joyful golf.
▦ Half Moon Bay
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Half Moon Bay
Half Moon Bay
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2 courses
$$$$ · May–Oct
Two championship courses along the San Mateo coast about 30 miles south of San Francisco, sharing a Ritz-Carlton perched over the Pacific—Palmer's inland routing and Arthur Hills' bluff-top links.
▦ Hilton Head Island
18
Hilton Head Island
Hilton Head Island
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6 courses
$$$ · Mar–Nov
Hilton Head packs championship golf into Lowcountry marsh and live oaks—Pete Dye's Harbour Town Links and its lighthouse 18th, the Sea Pines and Palmetto Dunes resorts, and twelve miles of beach between rounds.
▦ Jekyll Island
19
Southeast
Jekyll Island
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3 courses
$$$ · Jan–Dec
"Each course is a masterpiece. Imagine playing through some of Jekyll Island’s most pristine lakes, marshes and forests. There are very few man-made obstructions here. But you will have to navigate the island’s alligators, osprey and deer."
▦ Kiawah Island
20
Kiawah Island
Kiawah Island
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5 courses
$$$$ · Apr–Oct
Five championship courses on a South Carolina barrier island—home of Pete Dye's Ocean Course.
▦ Kitsap Peninsula
21
Puget Sound
Kitsap Peninsula
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2 courses
$ · Jan–Dec
Gold Mountain's Olympic Course—Washington's best muni, carved through Puget Sound firs a ferry ride from Seattle.
▦ Las Vegas
22
Las Vegas Valley
Las Vegas
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3 courses
$$$ · Mar–Nov
Big desert golf on the edge of Sin City—Cascata's canyon spectacle and Serket's Rees Jones test, both minutes from the Strip.
▦ Lofoten Links
23
Lofoten Islands
Lofoten Links
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1 course
$$$ · Jun–Aug
Links golf above the Arctic Circle—oceanside holes among the rocks and, in high summer, tee times around the clock under the midnight sun.
▦ Lone Tree Golf Club & Hotel
24
Denver
Lone Tree Golf Club & Hotel
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1 course
$$ · May–Sep
A rare public course-with-hotel south of Denver—an Arnold Palmer layout with Front Range views and walk-to-the-tee convenience.
▦ Mississippi Gulf Coast
25
Mississippi Gulf Coast
Mississippi Gulf Coast
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1 course
$ · Mar–Nov
Jack Nicklaus's Grand Bear, carved through the pines of the De Soto National Forest—big-name golf at casino-trip prices.
▦ Moab
26
Moab
Moab
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1 course
$ · Mar–Nov
Red-rock golf at the doorstep of Arches and Canyonlands.
▦ Monterey Peninsula
27
Monterey Peninsula
Monterey Peninsula
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8 courses
$$$$ · Apr–Oct
The pilgrimage—Pebble Beach Golf Links, Spyglass Hill and the 17-Mile Drive—plus the public courses around them: Poppy Hills, Bayonet & Black Horse, and Pacific Grove, the poor man's Pebble.
▦ Omni Barton Creek
28
Texas Hill Country
Omni Barton Creek
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4 courses
$$$ · Mar–Nov
Four championship courses in the Austin Hill Country: two Tom Fazios (including the waterfall-strewn Foothills), a minimalist Coore & Crenshaw, and an Arnold Palmer satellite—all off one Omni resort, 30 minutes from downtown.
▦ Omni Tucson National
29
Tucson
Omni Tucson National
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2 courses
$$$ · Nov–Apr
Two contrasting desert courses below the Santa Catalinas: Von Hagge & Devlin's old PGA Tour parkland and Tom Lehman's target-golf Sonoran—off an Omni resort in Tucson's winter-golf sweet spot.
▦ PGA Frisco
30
Dallas–Fort Worth
PGA Frisco
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4 courses
$$$$ · Mar–Nov
The home of the PGA of America in Frisco, Texas: 36 championship holes by Gil Hanse and Beau Welling, a par-3 under the lights, and a purpose-built Omni resort—a future PGA Championship host you can actually play.
▦ Palm Springs
31
Coachella Valley
Palm Springs
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10 courses
$$$ · Jan–Dec
Five Pete Dye, Nicklaus and Norman championship courses across La Quinta Resort and PGA West—desert target golf under the Santa Rosa mountains, anchored by a historic 1926 hacienda resort.
▦ Pasatiempo
32
Santa Cruz
Pasatiempo
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1 course
$$$$ · Apr–Oct
Alister MacKenzie's public masterpiece and his own home course—1929 golf in the hills above Monterey Bay, freshly restored to its original shapes.
▦ Pawleys Island
33
Hammock Coast
Pawleys Island
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2 courses
$$ · Jan–Dec
Caledonia and True Blue—Mike Strantz's lowcountry pair across the road from each other at the quiet end of the Grand Strand.
▦ Pinehurst Resort
34
North Carolina Sandhills
Pinehurst Resort
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11 courses
$$$ · Mar–Nov
The cradle of American golf—eleven courses (and counting) in the Carolina sandhills, anchored by Donald Ross's No. 2.
▦ Reynolds Lake Oconee
35
Lake Oconee
Reynolds Lake Oconee
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5 courses
$$$$ · Apr–Oct
Five resort courses across a 12,000-acre lakefront community in central Georgia, with the Ritz-Carlton as the gateway to Nicklaus, Rees Jones, Fazio and Cupp designs.
▦ Rodeo Dunes
36
Colorado High Plains
Rodeo Dunes
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1 course
$$$ · May–Oct
Dream Golf's next act—Coore & Crenshaw routing 90-foot dunes on Colorado's eastern plains, with public play from May 2027.
▦ San Diego
37
La Jolla
San Diego
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3 courses
$$$ · Jan–Dec
Torrey Pines—36 municipal holes on the bluffs above the Pacific, with US Open pedigree and hang gliders overhead.
▦ Sand Valley
38
Central Wisconsin
Sand Valley
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6 courses
$$$ · May–Oct
A sand-based dunes destination in central Wisconsin, with several distinct courses across one property.
▦ Scottsdale
39
Scottsdale
Scottsdale
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5 courses
$$$$ · Nov–Apr
America's desert golf capital—resort courses from Camelback to the Salt River, with Old Town Scottsdale and Sonoran hikes between rounds.
▦ South Puget Sound
40
Puget Sound
South Puget Sound
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2 courses
$$$ · 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.
▦ Southern Indiana
41
Ohio River Valley
Southern Indiana
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1 course
$ · Apr–Oct
Chariot Run in Laconia—a polished, inclusive-priced parkland test tied to Caesars Southern Indiana, an easy add to a Louisville trip.
▦ Streamsong
42
Central Florida
Streamsong
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4 courses
$$$ · Jan–Dec
Modern golf's boldest trio—soon five—rising out of old phosphate-mine dunes an hour and a half from Tampa.
▦ The Broadmoor
43
Colorado Springs
The Broadmoor
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2 courses
$$$$ · May–Sep
A Forbes Five-Star resort at the foot of Cheyenne Mountain, with two Ross/Robert Trent Jones championship courses played only by guests.
▦ Wild Spring Dunes
44
East Texas Pineywoods
Wild Spring Dunes
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1 course
$$ · Mar–Nov
Tom Doak's walk in the East Texas pines—Dream Golf's sandy, rumpled newcomer opens to the public September 2026.
▦ Williamsburg
45
Historic Triangle
Williamsburg
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2 courses
$ · Apr–Oct
Strantz's Irish twins—Royal New Kent's transplanted links and Stonehouse's ravine ride—minutes from Colonial Williamsburg.
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