Daily course spotlights, architect profiles, golf news, and coverage from across the country.
William F. Bell spent 30 years building the courses that defined public golf in California, from Torrey Pines to Sandpiper, carrying on a family design tradition that began before World War II.
Opened in 1955 as Mt Pleasant CC, The Haven Country Club in Boylston was reimagined by architect Ron Forse in 2022 and now hosts the New England PGA Pro-Pro Championship on a par-72 layout with small greens and serious elevation changes.
Robert Trent Jones Jr. has shaped golf on every continent, designing more than 250 courses guided by a single conviction: listen to the land.
Robert Trent Jones Jr. spent more than 50 years designing courses that work with the natural landscape rather than against it, leaving his mark on 83 courses across 29 U.S. states.
Ted Robinson designed The Falls at Blackhawk Country Club in Danville, CA to reward positioning over power. Renovated in 2010, this private East Bay course plays to 7,110 yards from the tips with a slope of 132 and delivers some of the most scenic rounds in Northern California.
Pete Dye spent six decades terrorizing golfers with railroad ties, island greens, and pot bunkers -- and in the process became the most influential American golf course architect of the modern era.
Built in 1959 along the historic Oregon Trail, American Falls Golf Club packs a surprisingly challenging round into nine well-maintained holes with views of the Snake River reservoir.
20 pre-1900 US golf courses still in operation. The oldest dates to 1860.
We averaged slope rating across every rated course in every state. New Jersey is the hardest.
The longest championship-par US golf courses. Top entry: 8,454 yards.
We counted every Golf Digest Top 100 course by architect. One name leads with 7 designs.
We ranked every rated US golf course by slope. The top 25 all carry slopes above 140.
He designed more than 500 courses on six continents and coined the phrase "the sun never sets on a Robert Trent Jones golf course." Here's a look at the man who shaped modern golf course design.
Tom Fazio carved 18 holes through 510 acres of Mississippi forest for MGM's Beau Rivage resort. The result is the #1 ranked course in the state, with a 142 slope from the tips and a PGA Tour Champions pedigree.
Robert Trent Jones Sr. designed more than 500 courses across 45 states and 35 countries, including two Golf Digest Top 100 courses on Stymie. Here is the story of the man who invented modern championship golf architecture.
Built in 1937 with horses and mules on genuine Kansas dunes, Prairie Dunes Country Club ranks among the finest courses in America -- and it plays every bit as hard as the ratings suggest.
Geoffrey Cornish designed more golf courses in New England than any architect in history, building a 240-course career on the principle that great design should work with the land, not against it.
From Oakland Hills to Spyglass Hill, Robert Trent Jones, Sr. designed more major championship venues than any other architect in history. A look at the career that defined modern golf course design.
Riverview Golf Course in Kirtland, New Mexico plays two completely different games: a classic parkland front nine and a links-style back nine with Shiprock visible from the fairways. At $24 to walk, it is the best deal in the Four Corners.
Clear Lake Golf Club in Big Rapids, Michigan has been welcoming golfers since 1918. This 18-hole public course offers scenic lake views, two contrasting nines, and some of the most affordable rounds in central Michigan.
Joe Lee designed over 100 courses across 13 states during a 44-year career, quietly becoming the dominant force in Florida golf from the 1960s through the 1990s.
Designed by Frank James in 1927, Longview Country Club sits on a forested hillside above the Columbia River with small, fast greens and a slope rating that punches well above its yardage.
Ted Robinson built 95 courses across the American West, earning his nickname through waterfalls, cascades, and water-wrapped greens that became his calling card from Palm Springs to Hawaii.
Plum Brook Country Club has anchored Sandusky, Ohio's golf scene since 1914. Rolling terrain, a par-71 layout, and an Arthur Hills redesign in 1994 make it one of northern Ohio's more interesting tracks.
Ed Ault spent more than two decades as a Washington power company engineer before designing over 150 golf courses across 19 states. His drainage-first, minimalist approach shaped the Mid-Atlantic golf landscape for decades.
Stonebrooke Golf Club in Shakopee, MN is a 4-star Golf Digest course where water comes into play on 13 holes and getting to the 8th green requires a pontoon boat ferry across Lake O'Dowd.
Ron Garl has designed over 250 golf courses worldwide, with more than 100 in Florida alone. His work spans five continents and 40-plus years, built on a single guiding idea: courses should sit softly on the land and reward every level of player.
Houston County's only 18-hole public course sits in the Mississippi River bluff country of southeast Minnesota, where Homer Fieldhouse routed a par-71 layout across rolling terrain in 1970. It still plays great today.
Robert Trent Jones Jr. founded his own firm in 1972 and designed more than 250 courses across five continents, guided by a simple maxim: listen to the land.
Geoffrey Cornish designed this 18-hole par-61 in 1950, and Westwoods Golf Course in Farmington, CT has been a local staple ever since. Twelve par-3s, a slope of 93, and affordable rates make it worth the trip.
Arthur Hills designed over 200 golf courses across 27 states during a 55-year career -- a prolific, principled architect from Toledo, Ohio whose classical approach shaped American golf course design from the 1960s through the 2000s.
Canyon West Golf Club in Weatherford, TX packs 1,000 feet of elevation change, eight lakes, a limestone waterfall, and an island green into 6,653 yards of Parker County terrain. Here is what to expect before you make the trip.
A family-owned public course in Phoenixville, PA, Pickering Valley has been drawing golfers from Philadelphia and beyond for over 30 years with scenic terrain, honest golf, and a welcoming atmosphere.
Klinger Lake Country Club in Sturgis, Michigan carries over a century of Donald Ross golf. The original nine still plays as the tougher half, with classic built-up greens and a slope of 138 from the tips.
Built in 1963 and designed by Sam Marcus, Los Verdes Country Club is a quietly demanding private layout in the Denver metro with bent grass greens, a challenging 124-slope blue tee, and the altitude edge that comes with playing a mile above sea level.
With over 500 courses across 45 states and 35 countries, Robert Trent Jones Sr. defined what championship golf design looks like in America and beyond.
Family-owned since 1971 and voted best in Warren County, Warrenton Golf Course offers a rare back-to-nature round on zoysia fairways with no housing developments in sight.
A par-61 executive course in Estero designed by Gordon Lewis that punishes sloppy iron play and rewards golfers who can hit greens. Open to the public May through October.
Donald Ross designed more than 400 courses across 31 states, leaving a stamp on American golf that no other architect has matched. Here is the story behind the man and the work.
Valley Brook Golf Course in River Vale, NJ is a par-70 municipal layout where water hazards, tight fairways, and compact greens punish inaccuracy far more than the short yardage suggests.
Tobacco Road Golf Club in Sanford, NC announces a new short course designed with a Strantzian twist, paying homage to the late Mike Strantz's iconic design philosophy.
