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AMERICA’S 100GREATEST COURSES

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2015 / 2016A S U P P L E M E N T T O G O L F D I G E S T

AUGUSTA NATIONAL, PINE VALLEY, CYPRESS POINT CLUB, SHINNECOCK HILLS, MERION, OAKMONT, PEBBLE BEACH G. LINKS, NATIONAL G. LINKS OF AMERICA, WINGED FOOT, FISHERS ISLAND CLUB, SAND HILLS, SEMINOLE, CRYSTAL DOWNS, CHICAGO G.C, MUIRFIELD VILLAGE, OAK HILL (East), OAKLAND HILLS (South), PACIFIC DUNES, THE COUNTRY CLUB, THE OCEAN COURSE, WADE HAMPTON, WHISTLING STRAITS, FRIAR’S HEAD, RIVIERA, PRAIRIE DUNES, LOS ANGELES (North), THE ALOTIAN CLUB, PINEHURST RESORT (No. 2), SOUTHERN HILLS, GOZZER RANCH, THE HONORS COURSE, SHADOW CREEK, THE OLYMPIC CLUB (Lake), PEACHTREE, SAN FRANCISCO G.C., THE GOLF CLUB, BANDON DUNES, SEBONACK, MEDINAH (No. 3), CASTLE PINES, BALTUSROL (Lower), ERIN HILLS, BETHPAGE STATE PARK (Black), PIKEWOOD NATIONAL, VICTORIA NATIONAL, BUTLER NATIONAL, TPC SAWGRASS (Players Stadium), SPYGLASS HILL, GARDEN CITY, SCIOTO, OAK TREE NATIONAL, CAMARGO CLUB, PETE DYE, BALLYNEAL, OLD MACDONALD, KINLOCH, INTERLACHEN, BALTUSROL (Upper), WINGED FOOT (East), CANYATA, DALLAS NATIONAL, MILWAUKEE, THE G.C. AT BLACK ROCK, YEAMANS HALL CLUB, ARCADIA BLUFFS, OLYMPIA FIELDS (North), MONTEREY PENINSULA (Shore), WHISPERING PINES, INVERNESS CLUB, THE ESTANCIA CLUB, QUAKER RIDGE, PLAINFIELD, SOMERSET HILLS, BANDON TRAILS, BOSTON, DOUBLE EAGLE CLUB, THE QUARRY AT LA QUINTA, MOUNTAINTOP G. & LAKE CLUB, OLD SANDWICH, CHERRY HILLS, RICH HARVEST LINKS, CONGRESSIONAL (Blue), THE VALLEY CLUB OF MONTECITO, KITTANSETT CLUB, FLINT HILLS NATIONAL, HAZELTINE NATIONAL, THE PRESERVE, CALUSA PINES, EAGLE POINT, ARONIMINK, BLACKWOLF RUN (River), LAUREL VALLEY, CROOKED STICK, DIAMOND CREEK, HUDSON NATIONAL, THE PETE DYE CSE. AT FRENCH LICK RESORT, VALHALLA, MAIDSTONE CLUB, SHOREACRES, STREAMSONG (Red)

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▶ For the golden anniversary oF our ranking, augusta national is the new no. 1. that’s just a start oF the changes. by ron whitten

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Take augusta National golf Club, for example. it’s back at No. 1 among america’s 100 greatest after barely losing the top spot it had held for four years, to Pine Valley, in 2013. when golf Digest started rank-ing courses in 1966, augusta National was already a national showcase, green and glorious on golfers’ newly purchased color-television sets. it was also an exclusive bastion of white males. but we were ranking golf courses, not club policies. Today, augusta National is still green and glorious, with more trees (minus one iconic presi-dential pine), but it also has minority and female members, if not ladies’ tee boxes. what’s more, its palatial practice facil-ity invites youngsters to play Punt, Pass and Kick with golf balls on the sunday before the masters. None of that matters to our course rankings, but it sure is encouraging for the fu-ture of the game.

Point is, things change, in-cluding our rankings. This is not your grandfather’s 100 greatest. in fact, for those who are actual grandfathers, it’s not even the 100 greatest of that generation. To begin with, there are only 24 courses among the Top 100 that have been on every national

ranking golf Digest has ever produced. These include augusta National, Pine Valley and such stalwarts as No. 3 Cypress Point, No. 5 merion (east), No. 6 oakmont, No. 7 Pebble beach, No. 9 winged Foot (west), No. 12 seminole, No. 24 riviera, No. 28 Pinehurst No. 2 and No. 50 scioto. among other permanent fixtures, No. 33 olym-pic (Lake) is at its lowest position ever on the list, as are No. 39 medinah (No. 3), No. 69 in-verness and No. 92 Laurel Valley.

what’s surprising are the many well-known names that have not always been ranked. These include No. 4 shinnecock hills, No. 8 National golf Links of america, No. 14 Chicago golf Club, No. 19 The Country Club (Clyde/squirrel), No. 25 Prairie Dunes and No. 35 san Francisco golf Club. which goes to show, in the course-ranking game, nobody’s perfect.

of course, 51 of today’s 100 greatest didn’t even exist in 1966. of those, 26 were built in this century, including No. 30 gozzer ranch, No. 44 Pikewood National, No. 68 whispering Pines and No. 96 Pete Dye Course at French Lick resort. (Fit that name on your shirt.) still, of the seven courses joining america’s 100 greatest in 2015, only two were built in the past 30 years: No. 42 erin hills, which opened in 2006 (full disclosure: i was a co-designer with michael hurdzan and Dana Fry) and No. 100 streamsong red, a 2012 design by bill Coore and ben Crenshaw.

so is there a pattern ap-parent in the latest version of america’s 100 greatest? most definitely, but before we discuss that, we honor the golden anniversary of our ranking.

oriGins And chAnGes

i n the 1960s, the late william h. Davis, a founder of golf Digest, conceived the idea

of a ranking of championship courses, basing it primarily upon Usga Course ratings, the figure long used to deter-mine each amateur’s handicap. with the help of a mapmaker,

What’s the old saying? The more things change,

the more they seem the same? That’s not the

precise language, but it should be, at least as

it relates to golf Digest’s biennial survey of

America’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses for 2015-’16.

The country’s oldest and most respected

course ranking will turn 50 next year, and those five decades have seen

continual change not just in the makeup of our Top

100 and other rankings (america’s second 100

greatest, america’s 100 greatest Public Courses, best in state and Top 30

in Canada) but also in course architecture,

and even golf itself.

Good viBe▶ The 13th hole is one reason Augusta National ranks No. 1

in Memorability and Ambience among the 100 Greatest.

Best in stAte▶ The sixth hole at Nanea Golf Club, repeating as the No. 1 course in Hawaii.

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ALABAMASHOAL CREEK

ALASKA MOOSE RUN G. CSE. (Creek), Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson

ARIZONATHE ESTANCIA CLUBScottsdale

ARKANSAS THE ALOTIAN CLUBRoland

CALIFORNIA CYPRESS POINT CLUBPebble Beach

COLORADO CASTLE PINES G.C. Castle Rock

CONNECTICUT THE STANWICH CLUB Greenwich

DELAWARE WILMINGTON C.C. (South)

FLORIDA SEMINOLE G.C.Juno Beach

GEORGIA AUGUSTA NATIONAL G.C.

HAWAII NANEA G.C. Kailua-Kona

The no. 1 course in each sTaTe

IDAHO GOZZER RANCH G. & LAKE CLUBHarrison

ILLINOISCHICAGO G.C.Wheaton

INDIANA VICTORIA NATIONAL G.C.Newburgh

IOWA THE HARVESTER G.C.Rhodes

KANSAS PRAIRIE DUNES C.C.Hutchinson

KENTUCKY VALHALLA G.C.Louisville

LOUISIANATHE C.C. OF LOUISIANABaton Rouge

MAINE BELGRADE LAKES G.C.

MARYLAND CONGRESSIONAL C.C. (Blue)Bethesda

MASSACHUSETTS THE COUNTRY CLUB (Clyde/Squirrel), Chestnut Hill

MICHIGAN CRYSTAL DOWNS C.C.Frankfort

MINNESOTA INTERLACHEN C.C.Edina

MISSISSIPPI FALLEN OAK G.C.Saucier

MISSOURI BOONE VALLEY G.C.Augusta

MONTANATHE STOCK FARM CLUBHamilton

NEBRASKA SAND HILLS G.C.Mullen

NEVADA SHADOW CREEKNorth Las Vegas

NEW HAMPSHIRE THE G.C. OF NEW ENGLANDStratham

NEW JERSEY PINE VALLEY G.C.

NEW MEXICO THE CLUB AT LAS CAMPANAS (Sunset), Santa Fe

NEW YORK SHINNECOCK HILLS G.C.Southampton

NORTH CAROLINA WADE HAMPTON G.C.Cashiers

NORTH DAKOTA HAWKTREE G.C.Bismarck

OHIO MUIRFIELD VILLAGE G.C.Dublin

OKLAHOMA SOUTHERN HILLS C.C.Tulsa

OREGON PACIFIC DUNESBandon

PENNSYLVANIA MERION G.C. (East)Ardmore

RHODE ISLAND NEWPORT C.C.

SOUTH CAROLINA THE OCEAN COURSEKiawah Island

SOUTH DAKOTA SUTTON BAY G.C.Agar

TENNESSEE THE HONORS COURSEOoltewah

TEXAS DALLAS NATIONAL G.C.

UTAH GLENWILD G.C.Park City

VERMONT EKWANOK C.C.Manchester

VIRGINIA KINLOCH G.C.Manakin-Sabot

WASHINGTON SAHALEE C.C. (South/North)Sammamish

WEST VIRGINIA PIKEWOOD NATIONAL G.C.Morgantown

WISCONSIN WHISTLING STRAITS (Straits)Haven

WYOMING SNAKE RIVER SPORTING CLUBJackson

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our panelists play and score courses on seven criteria

▶ shot vAlues How well do the holes pose a variety of risks and rewards and equally test length, accuracy and finesse? ▶ resistAnce to sc orinG

How difficult, while still being fair, is the course for a scratch player from the back tees? ▶ desiGn vAriet y

How varied are the holes in differing lengths, configurations, hazard placements, green shapes and green contours? ▶ memorABilit y

How well do the design features provide individuality to each hole yet a collective continuity to the entire 18? ▶ Aesthetics How well do the scenic values of the course add to the pleasure of a round?

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How firm, fast and rolling were the fairways, and how firm yet receptive were the greens on the day you played the course?

▶ AmBience

How well does the overall feel and atmosphere of the course reflect or uphold the traditional values of the game?

▶ To arrive at a course’s final score, we total its averages in the seven categories, doubling Shot Values. A course needs 45 evaluations over the past eight years to be eligible for America’s 100 Greatest. The minimum ballots for 100 Greatest Public is 25. For Best in State and Canada, the minimum is 10.

how we rAnk the courses

C.s. hammond & Co., Davis ran the list next to a gatefold map of america, plotting the 200 locations in the october 1966 issue and calling it america’s 200 Toughest Courses. on that list, which ran alphabetically by each state (absent alaska), every course was the equal of every other course. The project had taken three years to com-pile because Davis found thou-sands of U.s. courses had the same basic two-digit handicap rating. so he relied on top play-ers, golf writers, association officials and Usga executive director joe Dey to help him winnow it down.

Davis reprised the 200 Toughest the next year, again strictly state by state. in 1969, he assembled a national board of notable golfers to produce a tighter version, america’s 100 most Testing Courses. Courses were ranked alphabetically within groups of 10: First 10, second 10 and so on. augusta

National always appeared at the top of the Top 10, leading to the mistaken assumption that golf Digest considered it the nation’s top course. when augusta was demoted to the second 10 in 1981, it became the cover story.

The obligation to acknowl-edge something in each state was abandoned. (To this day, there are 10 states that have never had a course make the 100 greatest list: alaska, iowa, maine, montana, New hamp-shire, North Dakota, south Dakota, Utah, Vermont and wyoming.)

in 1971, the ranking was renamed america’s 100 great-est Tests of golf. in 1975, the board began meeting to debate factors beyond championship worthiness, and the list became america’s 100 greatest Courses.

a decade later, board members became panelists, who were required to play and evaluate courses using

a series of architectural cri-teria, and their evaluation numbers produced the first nu-merical ranking of the Top 100, led by Pine Valley at No. 1 for 22 of the next 24 years. (it was dethroned by Pebble beach in 2001-’02.) in the beginning there were 125 panelists; today there are 10 times as many. The same process is used today, although the categories have been redefined over the years (see list at left).

what has changed the most is the impact of america’s 100 greatest. The list has triggered competition, which is healthy, and escalated costs, which is not. sadly, the original impre-sario of the whole business, bill Davis, has never been honored by the american society of golf Course architects, despite the fact that america’s 100 greatest led directly to course designers becoming as famous as fashion icons (and architecture fees spi-raling upward).


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to the two-year snapshot pro-vided by america’s 100 great-est, is a guy who has been dead for 89 years. Three seth raynor designs join the Top 100 in 2015: No. 52 Camargo Club, No. 64 yeamans hall and No. 99 shoreacres. (Camargo and shoreacres had been pre-viously ranked. This is the first appearance for yeamans hall.) all three are classic designs, with geometric features and replica holes, each studiously restored in recent years by architect Tom Doak, one of the top design practitioners of today, who worships early architecture and fashions his work in that style, as evidenced by No. 18 Pacific Dunes, No. 38 sebonack (a co-design with jack Nicklaus), No. 54 ballyneal and No. 55 old macdonald (a co-design with jim Urbina). Not for nothing

does Doak call his firm renais-sance golf Design. but the term restoration is misleading. Though Doak has recaptured green sizes and bunker depths, strategies and angles, he has also installed state-of-the-art irrigation and turf. These are classics that have been fully retrofitted for today’s game.

according to this survey, the stars of the 1980s and 1990s might be in eclipse. Past Pga Championship hosts shoal Creek (No. 102) and sahalee (108) slipped into our second 100 greatest. still, 1988 Pga Championship host oak Tree National returns to the Top 100 at No. 51 after an absence of 15 years.

jack Nicklaus, known for his championship layouts, had three designs fall from the 100 greatest: shoal Creek, mayacama (No. 101) and No. 106 harbour Town, his initial collaboration with Pete Dye and a longtime Pga Tour favorite. This is the

first 100 greatest on which harbour Town does not appear since it debuted (in the Top 10!) in 1971. Kapalua, another longtime Pga Tour stop, also lost its Top 100 standing (No. 110) despite being a product of Coore and Crenshaw.

None of Tom Fazio’s designs dropped from the Top 100, but 10 fell several spots, and five moved slightly up. when you have as many courses ranked as Fazio (33 in the Top 200), some fluctuation is expected.

what to expect in our next rankings in 2017? Take a look at our second 100 greatest. Doak’s streamsong blue, a companion to streamsong red, sits at No. 120. Coore and Crenshaw’s Colorado golf Club is at No. 125 and rising. No. 130 Chambers bay hosts the U.s. open this summer, which will attract more panelist attention. and the second 100 contains four more seth raynor courses. in golf design, when you’re hot, you’re hot. even when you’re dead.

▶ when you have as many courses ranked as tom Fazio (33 in the top 200), some Fluctuation is expected.

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1 (2) AUGUSTA NATIONAL G.C. 7,435 72 72.1589 Augusta, Ga. Alister MacKenzie & Bobby Jones (1933) 2 (1) PINE VALLEY G.C. 7,057 70 71.9818 Pine Valley, N.J. George Crump & H.S. Colt (1918) 3 (3) CYPRESS POINT CLUB 6,524 72 69.4448 Pebble Beach, Ca. Alister MacKenzie & Robert Hunter (1928) 4 (4) SHINNECOCK HILLS G.C. 7,041 70 69.2522 Southampton, N.Y. / William Flynn (1931) 5 (6) MERION G.C. (East) 6,592 70 68.2949 Ardmore, Pa. / Hugh Wilson (1912) 6 (5) OAKMONT C.C. 7,255 71 68.1868 Oakmont, Pa. Henry Fownes (1903) 7 (7) PEBBLE BEACH G. LINKS 6,828 72 67.6226 Pebble Beach, Ca. Jack Neville & Douglas Grant (1919) 8 (11) NATIONAL G. LINKS OF AMERICA 6,957 72 66.9500 Southampton, N.Y. / C.B. Macdonald (1911) 9 (8) WINGED FOOT G.C. (West) 7,258 72 66.6801 Mamaroneck, N.Y. / A.W. Tillinghast (1923) 10 (10) FISHERS ISLAND CLUB 6,615 70 66.4241 Fishers Island, N.Y. Seth Raynor & Charles Banks (1926)

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11 (9) SAND HILLS G.C. 7,089 71 66.2401 Mullen, Neb. / Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw (1994) 12 (13) SEMINOLE G.C. 6,836 72 65.7391 Juno Beach, Fla. / Donald Ross (1929) 13 (12) CRYSTAL DOWNS C.C. 6,518 70 65.6944 Frankfort, Mich. Alister MacKenzie & Perry Maxwell (1931) 14 (18) CHICAGO G.C. 6,846 70 65.6429 Wheaton, Ill. C.B. Macdonald (1894) / Seth Raynor (1923) 15 (14) MUIRFIELD VILLAGE G.C. 7,392 72 65.4631 Dublin, Ohio Jack Nicklaus & Desmond Muirhead (1974) 16 (17) OAK HILL C.C. (East) 7,145 70 65.2247 Rochester, N.Y. / Donald Ross (1925) 17 (20) OAKLAND HILLS C.C. (South) 7,445 70 65.2165 Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Donald Ross (1918) 18 (19) PACIFIC DUNES 6,633 71 65.1748 Bandon, Ore. / Tom Doak (2001) 19 (24) THE COUNTRY CLUB 7,350 70 64.9493 (Clyde/Squirrel) Chestnut Hill, Mass. Willie Campbell (1895) / Alex Campbell (1902) 20 (21) THE OCEAN COURSE 7,356 72 64.9282 Kiawah Island, S.C. / Pete Dye (1991)

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12SEMINOLEJuno Beach, FL Donald Ross (1929) 6,836 yards, Par: 72

1Augusta, GA Alister MacKenzie & Bobby Jones (1933) 7,435 yards, Par: 72

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Fishers Island, NY Seth Raynor & Charles Banks (1926) 6,566 yards, Par: 72

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PINE VALLEYPine Valley, NJ George Crump & H.S. Colt (1918) 7,057 yards, Par: 70

MERION G.C.Ardmore, PA Hugh Wilson (1912) 6,886 yards, Par: 70

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SHINNECOCKHILLSSouthampton, NY William Flynn (1931) 7,041 yards, Par: 70

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▶WINGED FOOTMamaroneck, NY A.W. Tillinghast (1923) 7,258 yards, Par: 72

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OAK HILL C.C.Rochester, NY Donald Ross (1925) 7,145 yards, Par: 70

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▶CHICAGO G.C.Wheaton, IL C.B. Macdonald (1894) / Seth Raynor (1923) 6,846 yards, Par: 70

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SAND HILLSMullen, NE Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw (1994) 7,089 yards, Par: 71

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Frankfort, MI Alister MacKenzie & Perry Maxwell (1931) 6,518 yards, Par: 70

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Bloomfield Hills, MI Donald Ross (1918) 7,445 yards, Par: 70

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Dublin, OH Jack Nicklaus & Desmond Muirhead (1974) 7,366 yards, Par: 72

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31 (34) THE HONORS COURSE 7,450 72 63.8943 Ooltewah, Tenn. / Pete Dye (1983) 32 (29) SHADOW CREEK 7,560 72 63.8509 North Las Vegas, Nev. / Tom Fazio (1990) 33 (26) THE OLYMPIC CLUB (Lake) 6,934 71 63.8476 San Francisco / Sam Whiting (1924) 34 (43) PEACHTREE G.C. 7,414 72 63.7384 Atlanta Robert Trent Jones & Bobby Jones (1947) 35 (32) SAN FRANCISCO G.C. 6,830 71 63.6236 San Francisco / A.W. Tillinghast (1924) 36 (36) THE GOLF CLUB 7,439 72 63.5486 New Albany, Ohio / Pete Dye (1967) 37 (38) BANDON DUNES 6,732 72 63.4556 Bandon, Ore. / David McLay Kidd (1999) 38 (39) SEBONACK G.C. 7,534 72 63.3638 Southampton, N.Y. Jack Nicklaus & Tom Doak (2006) 39 (31) MEDINAH C.C. (No. 3) 7,657 72 63.3412 Medinah, Ill. / Tom Bendelow (1928) 40 (33) CASTLE PINES G.C. 7,696 72 63.2105 Castle Rock, Colo. / Jack Nicklaus (1981)

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21 (22) WADE HAMPTON G.C. 7,302 72 64.7895 Cashiers, N.C. / Tom Fazio (1987)

22 (16) WHISTLING STRAITS (Straits) 7,790 72 64.7378 Haven, Wis. / Pete Dye (1998) 23 (28) FRIAR’S HEAD G.C. 7,049 71 64.6514 Baiting Hollow, N.Y. Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw (2002) 24 (23) RIVIERA C.C. 7,040 71 64.6025 Pacific Palisades, Calif. George C. Thomas Jr. & W.P. Bell (1926) 25 (25) PRAIRIE DUNES C.C. 6,940 70 64.4624 Hutchinson, Kan. Perry Maxwell (1937) / Press Maxwell (1957) 26 (41) LOS ANGELES C.C. (North) 7,236 71 64.4357 Los Angeles / George C. Thomas Jr. (1921) 27 (15) THE ALOTIAN CLUB 7,480 72 64.3292 Roland, Ark. / Tom Fazio (2004) 28 (40) PINEHURST RESORT (No. 2) 7,565 72 64.2727 Pinehurst, N.C. / Donald Ross (1935) 29 (30) SOUTHERN HILLS C.C. 7,184 71 64.1204 Tulsa, Okla. / Perry Maxwell (1936) 30 (27) GOZZER RANCH G. & LAKE C. 7,317 72 63.9136 Harrison, Idaho / Tom Fazio (2007)


41 (35) BALTUSROL G.C. (Lower) 7,400 72 63.1650 Springfield, N.J. / A.W. Tillinghast (1922) 42 (New) ERIN HILLS G. CSE. 7,812 72 62.9110 Erin, Wis. Michael Hurdzan, Dana Fry & Ron Whitten (2006) 43 (42) BETHPAGE STATE PARK (Black) 7,366 71 62.8630 Farmingdale, N.Y. Joseph H. Burbeck & A.W. Tillinghast (1936) 44 (45) PIKEWOOD NATIONAL G.C. 7,588 72 62.8133 Morgantown, W.Va. J. Robert Gwynne & John Raese (2009) 45 (47) VICTORIA NATIONAL G.C. 7,239 72 62.8098 Newburgh, Ind. / Tom Fazio (1998) 46 (50) BUTLER NATIONAL G.C. 7,523 71 62.7981 Oak Brook, Ill. George Fazio & Tom Fazio (1974) 47 (44) TPC SAWGRASS 7,215 72 62.7181 (Players Stadium) Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. / Pete Dye (1980) 48 (48) SPYGLASS HILL G. CSE. 6,960 72 62.7138 Pebble Beach / Robert Trent Jones (1966) 49 (55) GARDEN CITY G.C. 6,922 73 62.6825 Garden City, N.Y. / Devereux Emmet (1899)50 (52) SCIOTO C.C. 7,140 70 62.6499 Columbus, Ohio / Donald Ross (1916)


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61 (60) DALLAS NATIONAL G.C. 7,372 72 62.0630 Dallas / Tom Fazio (2002) 62 (53) MILWAUKEE C.C. 7,094 72 62.0331 River Hills, Wis. H.S. Colt & C.H. Alison (1929) 63 (58) THE G.C. AT BLACK ROCK 7,130 72 62.0190 Coeur d’Alene, Idaho Jim Engh (2003) 64 (New) YEAMANS HALL CLUB 6,808 70 61.8511 Charleston, S.C. Seth Raynor & Charles Banks (1926) 65 (57) ARCADIA BLUFFS G.C. 7,300 72 61.8071 Arcadia, Mich. Rick Smith & Warren Henderson (2000) 66 (62) OLYMPIA FIELDS C.C. (North) 7,205 70 61.7926 Olympia Fields, Ill. Willie Park Jr. (1922) 67 (66) MONTEREY PENINSULA C.C. (Shore) 6,873 72 61.7821 Pebble Beach / Mike Strantz (2004) 68 (75) WHISPERING PINES G.C. 7,473 72 61.7403 Trinity, Texas / Chet Williams (2000) 69 (54) INVERNESS CLUB 7,255 71 61.6908 Toledo, Ohio / Donald Ross (1919) 70 (61) THE ESTANCIA CLUB 7,314 72 61.6729 Scottsdale / Tom Fazio (1995)


81 (73) RICH HARVEST LINKS 7,715 72 61.3452 Sugar Grove, Ill. Jerry Rich & Greg Martin (1999)82 (77) CONGRESSIONAL C.C. (Blue) 7,278 72 61.3438 Bethesda, Md. / Robert Trent Jones (1962) 83 (112) THE VALLEY CLUB OF MONTECITO 6,744 71 61.3133 Montecito, Calif. Alister MacKenzie & Robert Hunter (1929)84 (84) KITTANSETT CLUB 6,811 71 61.2982 Marion, Mass. William Flynn & Frederic Hood (1922)85 (72) FLINT HILLS NATIONAL G.C. 6,906 71 61.2690 Andover, Kan. / Tom Fazio (1997)86 (94) HAZELTINE NATIONAL G.C. 7,137 72 61.2548 Chaska, Minn. / Robert Trent Jones (1962)87 (79) THE PRESERVE G.C. 7,067 72 61.2421 Carmel, Calif. / Tom Fazio, J. Michael Poellot & Sandy Tatum (2000)88 (81) CALUSA PINES G.C. 7,203 72 61.2374 Naples, Fla. Michael Hurdzan & Dana Fry (2001)89 (67) EAGLE POINT G.C. 7,259 72 61.2142 Wilmington, N.C. / Tom Fazio (2000)90 (80) ARONIMINK G.C. 7,190 70 61.1902 Newtown Square, Pa. / Donald Ross (1928)


71 (69) QUAKER RIDGE G.C. 7,008 70 61.6547 Scarsdale, N.Y. / A.W. Tillinghast (1918) 72 (65) PLAINFIELD C.C. 7,091 72 61.5907 Edison, N.J. / Donald Ross (1921) 73 (95) SOMERSET HILLS C.C. 6,756 71 61.5704 Bernardsville, N.J. / A.W. Tillinghast (1918) 74 (70) BANDON TRAILS 6,759 71 61.5480 Bandon, Ore. / Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw (2005) 75 (74) BOSTON G.C. 7,062 71 61.5457 Hingham, Mass. / Gil Hanse (2004) 76 (83) DOUBLE EAGLE CLUB 7,175 72 61.5288 Galena, Ohio Jay Morrish & Tom Weiskopf (1992) 77 (88) THE QUARRY AT LA QUINTA 7,083 72 61.4987 La Quinta, Calif. / Tom Fazio (1994) 78 (92) MOUNTAINTOP G. & LAKE CLUB 7,122 70 61.4829 Cashiers, N.C. / Tom Fazio (2006) 79 (68) OLD SANDWICH G.C. 6,908 71 61.4142 Plymouth, Mass. Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw (2005) 80 (64) CHERRY HILLS C.C. 7,348 72 61.3633 Cherry Hills Village, Colo. / William Flynn (1923)


91 (63) BLACKWOLF RUN (River) 7,404 72 61.0936 Kohler, Wis. / Pete Dye (1990) 92 (87) LAUREL VALLEY G.C. 7,329 72 61.0633 Ligonier, Pa. / Dick Wilson (1959) 93 (91) CROOKED STICK G.C. 7,516 72 60.9198 Carmel, Ind. / Pete Dye (1967) 94 (89) DIAMOND CREEK G.C. 7,175 70 60.9126 Banner Elk, N.C. / Tom Fazio (2003) 95 (90) HUDSON NATIONAL G.C. 7,101 70 60.9103 Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. / Tom Fazio (1996) 96 (93) THE PETE DYE CSE. 8,102 72 60.9035 AT FRENCH LICK RESORT French Lick, Ind. / Pete Dye (2009) 97 (99) VALHALLA G.C. 7,540 72 60.9010 Louisville / Jack Nicklaus (1986) 98 (100) MAIDSTONE CLUB 6,650 72 60.8456 East Hampton, N.Y. Willie Park Jr. & Jack Park (1924) 99 (102) SHOREACRES 6,521 71 60.7791 Lake Bluff, Ill. / Seth Raynor (1921) 100 (New) STREAMSONG (Red) 7,148 72 60.7601 Streamsong, Fla. Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw (2012)


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111 (115) PASATIEMPO G.C. 6,500 70 60.5110 Santa Cruz, Calif. Alister MacKenzie (1929) 112 (117) ATLANTA ATHLETIC CLUB (Highlands) 7,613 72 60.5078 Johns Creek, Ga. Robert Trent Jones (1967)/Joseph S. Finger (1971)113 (119) ROCK CREEK CATTLE CO. 7,466 71 60.3892 Deer Lodge, Mont. / Tom Doak (2008) 114 (107) PRINCE G. CSE. 7,378 72 60.3330 Princeville, Kauai, Hawaii Robert Trent Jones Jr. (1990)115 (111) ROBERT TRENT JONES G.C. 7,425 72 60.2963 Gainesville, Va. Robert Trent Jones (1991)116 (98) GRANDFATHER G. & C.C. 7,010 72 60.2489 Linville, N.C. / Ellis Maples (1967)117 (109) KIAWAH ISLAND CLUB (Cassique) 7,050 72 60.2200 Kiawah Island, S.C. Tom Watson (2000)118 (113) FOREST DUNES G.C. 7,116 72 60.2002 Roscommon, Mich. Tom Weiskopf (2002)119 (124) ATLANTIC G.C. 7,117 72 60.1846 Bridgehampton, N.Y. Rees Jones (1992)120 (New) STREAMSONG (Blue) 7,176 72 60.1842 Streamsong, Fla. / Tom Doak (2012)


131 (New) THE MADISON CLUB 7,426 72 59.8675 La Quinta, Calif. Tom Fazio (2006)132 (146) CAVES VALLEY G.C. 7,226 71 59.8300 Owings Mills, Md. Tom Fazio (1991)133 (114) KINGSLEY CLUB 6,956 71 59.8203 Kingsley, Mich. Mike DeVries (2001)134 (128) OCEAN FOREST G.C. 7,321 72 59.7604 Sea Island, Ga. / Rees Jones (1995)135 (120) WANNAMOISETT C.C. 6,732 69 59.7430 Rumford, R.I. / Donald Ross (1916)136 (147) CALIFORNIA G.C. OF SAN FRANCISCO 7,216 72 59.7139 South San Francisco A. Vernon Macan (1926)137 (126) BAYONNE G.C. 7,106 71 59.6799 Bayonne, N.J. Eric Bergstol (2006)138 (106) SYCAMORE HILLS G.C. 7,275 72 59.6695 Fort Wayne, Ind. Jack Nicklaus (1989)139 (138) LONG COVE CLUB 7,094 71 59.6167 Hilton Head Island Pete Dye (1982)140 (123) WHISPER ROCK G.C. (Upper) 7,550 72 59.5651 Scottsdale / Tom Fazio (2005)


101 (86) MAYACAMA G.C. 6,785 72 60.7378 Santa Rosa, Calif. Jack Nicklaus (2001)102 (71) SHOAL CREEK 7,264 72 60.7233 Shoal Creek, Ala. Jack Nicklaus (1977)103 (108) EAST LAKE G.C. 7,374 72 60.7150 Atlanta / Donald Ross (1913) 104 (85) FOREST HIGHLANDS G.C. (Canyon) 7,007 71 60.7071 Flagstaff, Ariz. Jay Morrish & Tom Weiskopf (1988)105 (118) JUPITER HILLS CLUB (Hills) 7,344 70 60.6920 Tequesta, Fla. / George Fazio (1970)106 (96) HARBOUR TOWN G. LINKS 7,101 71 60.6388 Hilton Head Island Pete Dye & Jack Nicklaus (1969)107 (122) SAGE VALLEY G.C. 7,344 72 60.6006 Graniteville, S.C. / Tom Fazio (2001)108 (82) SAHALEE C.C. (South/North) 7,003 72 60.5529 Sammamish, Wash. Ted Robinson (1969)109 (New) RIDGEWOOD C.C. (East/West) 7,319 71 60.5345 Paramus, N.J. A.W. Tillinghast (1929)110 (97) KAPALUA (Plantation) 7,411 73 60.5165 Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw (1991)


121 (104) GALLOWAY NATIONAL G.C. 7,111 71 60.1833 Galloway, N.J. Tom Fazio (1994)122 (145) SLEEPY HOLLOW C.C. 6,880 70 60.0879 Scarborough-on-Hudson, N.Y. C.B. Macdonald (1914)/A.W. Tillinghast (1928)123 (116) LOST DUNES G.C. 6,905 71 60.0417 Bridgman, Mich. Tom Doak (1999)124 (105) THE CONCESSION G.C. 7,474 72 59.9864 Bradenton, Fla. Jack Nicklaus & Tony Jacklin (2006)125 (131) COLORADO G.C. 7,604 72 59.9765 Parker, Colo. Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw (2007) 126 (New) NEWPORT C.C. 6,948 70 59.9627 Newport, R.I. / William F. Davis (1899)127 (127) BALTIMORE C.C. (East) 7,037 70 59.9596 Lutherville, Md. A.W. Tillinghast (1926)128 (New) THE OLDE FARM 7,063 71 59.9465 Bristol, Va. / Bobby Weed (2000) 129 (110) EUGENE C.C. 7,033 72 59.9420 Eugene, Ore. / Robert Trent Jones (1967)130 (121) CHAMBERS BAY 7,585 72 59.9397 University Place, Wash. Robert Trent Jones Jr. & Bruce Charlton (2007)

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151 (148) MARTIS CAMP G.C. 7,766 72 59.2888 Truckee, Calif. Tom Fazio (2008)152 (174) EASTWARD HO! C.C. 6,372 71 59.2402 Chatham, Mass. / Herbert Fowler (1922)153 (164) BEL-AIR C.C. 6,777 70 59.2153 Los Angeles George C. Thomas Jr. & William F. Bell (1926) 154 (135) THE BROADMOOR G.C. (East) 7,355 72 59.2039 Colorado Springs Donald Ross (1918)/Robert Trent Jones (1952)155 (New) CANTERBURY G.C. 7,012 71 59.1899 Beachwood, Ohio / Herbert Strong (1922)156 (130) PRONGHORN CLUB (Nicklaus) 7,379 72 59.1894 Bend, Ore. / Jack Nicklaus (2003) 157 (142) COLONIAL C.C. 7,204 70 59.1793 Fort Worth / Perry Maxwell (1936)158 (New) ATLANTA C.C. 7,110 72 59.1780 Marietta, Ga. Willard Byrd & Joseph S. Finger (1965)159 (166) STONE EAGLE G.C. 6,840 71 59.1567 Palm Desert, Calif. Tom Doak (2005) 160 (152) THE CLUB AT CARLTON WOODS (Fazio) 7,358 72 59.1070 The Woodlands, Texas / Tom Fazio (2005)


141 (New) THE GREENBRIER (Old White TPC) 7,287 70 59.5518 White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. C.B. Macdonald (1914)142 (140) CHARLOTTE C.C. 7,335 71 59.5029 Charlotte Donald Ross (1925)143 (154) SHERWOOD C.C. 7,052 72 59.4390 Thousand Oaks, Calif. Jack Nicklaus (1989)144 (134) PRONGHORN CLUB (Fazio) 7,462 72 59.4302 Bend, Ore. / Tom Fazio (2006)145 (New) BELLERIVE C.C. 7,460 72 59.4144 St. Louis / Robert Trent Jones (1960)146 (129) OMNI HOMESTEAD (Cascades) 6,667 70 59.3979 Hot Springs, Va. / William Flynn (1923)147 (103) THE HIGHLAND CSE. AT PRIMLAND 7,053 72 59.3943 Meadows of Dan, Va. / Donald Steel (2006)148 (143) BLACK DIAMOND RANCH (Quarry) 7,159 72 59.3863 Lecanto, Fla. Tom Fazio (1987)149 (139) SANCTUARY 7,044 72 59.3382 Sedalia, Colo. Jim Engh (1997)150 (132) THE STONE CANYON CLUB 7,317 72 59.3253 Oro Valley, Ariz. Jay Morrish (2000)


161 (101) THE STANWICH CLUB 7,445 72 59.1047 Greenwich, Conn. William Gordon & David Gordon (1962)162 (125) GLENWILD G.C. 7,523 71 59.0698 Park City, Utah Tom Fazio (2001) 163 (163) THE CREEK 6,459 70 59.0605 Locust Valley, N.Y. C.B. Macdonald & Seth Raynor (1923)164 (141) TRUMP NATIONAL G.C. BEDMINSTER (Old) 7,590 72 58.8955 Bedminster, N.J. / Tom Fazio (2004) 165 (151) TRUMP INTERNATIONAL G.C. (Championship) 7,326 72 58.8919 West Palm Beach / Jim Fazio (1999)166 (187) SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS G.C. 7,374 72 58.8689 Las Vegas / Robert Trent Jones Jr. (2000)167 (133) WOLF RUN G.C. 7,220 71 58.8506 Zionsville, Ind. / Steve Smyers (1989)168 (155) SEA ISLAND G.C. (Seaside) 6,883 70 58.8388 St. Simons Island, Ga. / Tom Fazio (1999)169 (New) McARTHUR G.C. 7,205 72 58.7973 Hobe Sound, Fla. / Tom Fazio & Nick Price (2002)170 (New) SPRING CREEK RANCH G.C. 7,426 72 58.7603 Collierville, Tenn. / Jack Nicklaus (1999)


171 (150) SECESSION G.C. 7,068 72 58.6509 Beaufort, S.C. / Bruce Devlin (1992)172 (137) ALDARRA G.C. 6,885 71 58.6154 Sammamish, Wash. Tom Fazio (2001)173 (162) FALLEN OAK G.C. 7,487 72 58.5557 Saucier, Miss. Tom Fazio (2006)174 (144) FOREST CREEK G.C. (North) 7,184 72 58.5421 Pinehurst, N.C. Tom Fazio (2005)175 (New) MAY RIVER G.C. AT PALMETTO BLUFF 7,171 72 58.5332 Bluffton, S.C. / Jack Nicklaus (2004)176 (167) WHISPER ROCK G.C. (Lower) 7,390 72 58.4959 Scottsdale Phil Mickelson & Gary Stephenson (2001) 177 (159) TORREY PINES G. CSE. (South) 7,628 72 58.4638 La Jolla, Calif. / William F. Bell (1957)178 (169) SAUCON VALLEY C.C. (Old) 7,126 71 58.4578 Bethlehem, Pa. / Herbert Strong (1922)179 (182) DESERT HIGHLANDS G.C. 7,108 72 58.3240 Scottsdale / Jack Nicklaus (1983)180 (New) PABLO CREEK CLUB 7,026 72 58.3186 Jacksonville Tom Fazio (1996)

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181 (168) PGA WEST (TPC Stadium) 7,300 72 58.1697 La Quinta, Calif. Pete Dye (1986)182 (157) WOLF CREEK G.C. 7,108 72 58.0777 Mesquite, Nev. Dennis Rider (2000) 183 (175) THE CLUB AT CARLTON WOODS (Nicklaus) 7,402 72 58.0324 The Woodlands, Texas Jack Nicklaus (2001)184 (176) OLYMPIA FIELDS C.C. (South) 7,114 72 58.0291 Olympia Fields, Ill. Tom Bendelow (1916)185 (New) DORMIE CLUB 6,883 71 57.9830 West End, N.C. Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw (2010)186 (188) CORDEVALLE 7,360 72 57.9520 San Martin, Calif. Robert Trent Jones Jr. (1999)187 (165) CONWAY FARMS G.C. 7,216 71 57.9218 Lake Forest, Ill. Tom Fazio (1991)188 (158) PINE TREE G.C. 7,301 71 57.8916 Boynton Beach, Fla. / Dick Wilson (1961)189 (180) CASCATA 7,137 72 57.8709 Boulder City, Nev. / Rees Jones (2000)190 (156) GREENVILLE C.C. (Chanticleer) 6,864 72 57.8622 Greenville, S.C. / Robert Trent Jones (1970)


191 (172) C.C. OF NORTH CAROLINA (Dogwood) 7,204 72 57.8345 Pinehurst, N.C. Ellis Maples & Willard Byrd (1963)192 (181) THE COURSE AT YALE 6,749 70 57.7963 New Haven, Conn. C.B. Macdonald, Seth Raynor & Charles Banks (1926)193 (New) WILMINGTON C.C. (South) 7,334 71 57.7796 Wilmington, Del. Robert Trent Jones (1960)194 (189) MONTEREY PENINSULA C.C. (Dunes) 6,762 72 57.7482 Pebble Beach Seth Raynor/Alister MacKenzie & Robert Hunter (1926)195 (161) WHISTLING STRAITS (Irish) 7,201 72 57.7387 Haven, Wis. Pete Dye (2000)196 (171) TULLYMORE G.C. 7,250 72 57.6969 Stanwood, Mich. Jim Engh (2001)197 (178) CHECHESSEE CREEK CLUB 6,641 70 57.6579 Okatie, S.C. Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw (2000)198 (186) THE LINKS AT SPANISH BAY 6,821 72 57.6485 Pebble Beach Robert Trent Jones Jr., Tom Watson & Sandy Tatum (1987) 199 (New) BLUE MOUND G. & C.C. 6,672 70 57.6415 Wauwatosa, Wis. / Seth Raynor & Charles Banks (1926)200 (New) LOBLOLLY G.C. 6,930 72 57.6085 Hobe Sound, Fla. / P.B. Dye (1988)

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▶ Pebble Beach has been No. 1 among America’s 100 Greatest Public Courses every year since Golf Digest started the list in 2003. An asterisk indicates a course has a higher score than some on America’s 100 Greatest but does not appear on that ranking because it did not have enough evaluations. America’s 100 Greatest requires a minimum of 45 ballots; 100 Greatest Public requires 25. Parentheses indicate previous ranking.

1 (1) PEBBLE BEACH G. LINKS Pebble Beach 67.6226

2 (3) PACIFIC DUNES Bandon, Ore.65.1748

3 (4) THE OCEAN COURSE Kiawah Island, S.C.64.9282

4 (2) WHISTLING STRAITS (Straits)Haven, Wis.64.7378

5 (7) PINEHURST RESORT (No. 2) Pinehurst, N.C.64.2727

6 (5) SHADOW CREEKNorth Las Vegas, Nev.63.8509

7 (6) BANDON DUNES Bandon, Ore.63.4556

8 (10) ERIN HILLS G. CSE. Erin, Wis.62.9110

9 (8) BETHPAGE STATE PARK (Black)Farmingdale, N.Y.62.8630

10 (9) TPC SAWGRASS (Players Stadium) Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.62.7181

11 (11) SPYGLASS HILL G. CSE. Pebble Beach62.7138

12 (12) OLD MACDONALDBandon, Ore.62.4879

13 (13)ARCADIA BLUFFS G.C. Arcadia, Mich.61.8071

T-14 (15) KARSTEN CREEK G.C. Stillwater, Okla.61.5480*

T-14 (16) BANDON TRAILSBandon, Ore.61.5480

16 (14) BLACKWOLF RUN (River)Kohler, Wis.61.0936

17 (17) THE PETE DYE CSE. AT FRENCH LICK RESORTFrench Lick, Ind.60.9035

18 (New) STREAMSONG (Red)Streamsong, Fla.60.7601

19 (18) HARBOUR TOWN G. LINKS Hilton Head Island60.6388

20 (19)KAPALUA (Plantation)Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii60.5165

21 (24) PASATIEMPO G.C.Santa Cruz, Calif.60.5110

22 (22) PRINCE G. CSE.Princeville, Kauai, Hawaii60.3330

23 (23) FOREST DUNES G.C.Roscommon, Mich.60.2002

24 (New) STREAMSONG (Blue)Streamsong, Fla. 60.1842

25 (20) THE QUARRY AT GIANTS RIDGEBiwabik, Minn.60.1507

26 (25)CHAMBERS BAYUniversity Place, Wash.59.9397

27 (31) MAUNA KEA G. CSE.Kohala Coast, Hawaii59.7646

28 (33) MANELE G. CSE.Lanai City, Lanai, Hawaii59.7266

29 (34) THE GREENBRIER (Old White TPC)White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.59.5518

30 (26) OMNI HOMESTEAD (Cascades)Hot Springs, Va.59.3979

31 (21) THE HIGHLAND CSE. AT PRIMLANDMeadows of Dan, Va.59.3943

32 (29) THE BROADMOOR G.C. (East)Colorado Springs59.2039

33 (28) PRONGHORN CLUB (Nicklaus)Bend, Ore.59.1894

34 (36) SEA ISLAND G.C. (Seaside)St. Simons Island, Ga.58.8388

35 (New)THE PRAIRIE CLUB (Dunes)Valentine, Neb.58.6291

36 (40)FALLEN OAK G.C.Saucier, Miss.58.5557

37 (27) MAY RIVER G.C. AT PALMETTO BLUFFBluffton, S.C.58.5332

38 (35) OLD WAVERLY G.C.West Point, Miss.58.5220

39 (38) TORREY PINES G. CSE. (South) La Jolla, Calif.58.4638

40 (43) PGA WEST (TPC Stadium)La Quinta, Calif.58.1697

41 (37) WOLF CREEK G.C. Mesquite, Nev.58.0777

42 (46) THE HARVESTER G.C. Rhodes, Iowa58.0494

43 (30) DORMIE CLUB West End, N.C.57.9830

44 (61) CORDEVALLESan Martin, Calif.57.9520

45 (78) BULLE ROCKHavre de Grace, Md. 57.9002

46 (53) CASCATABoulder City, Nev.57.8709

47 (39) WHISTLING STRAITS (Irish) Haven, Wis.57.7387

48 (45) TULLYMORE G.C.Stanwood, Mich.57.6969

49 (60) THE LINKS AT SPANISH BAYPebble Beach57.6485

50 (52) THE DUNES G. & BEACH C. Myrtle Beach57.5941

51 (49) CROSSWATERSunriver, Ore.57.5838

52 (55) ATUNYOTE G.C.Verona, N.Y.57.5788

53 (64) COG HILL G. & C.C. (No. 4 Dubsdread)Lemont, Ill.57.5471

54 (66) TETHEROW G.C.Bend, Ore.57.4957

55 (58) SPRING CREEK G.C.Gordonsville, Va.57.4881

56 (56) G.C. AT CUSCOWILLAEatonton, Ga.57.2975

57 (59) THE WILDERNESSAT FORTUNE BAYTower, Minn.57.2253

58 (41) PAA-KO RIDGE G.C. (1st/2nd)Sandia Park, N.M.57.1634

59 (44) PINEHURST RESORT (No. 4) Pinehurst, N.C. 57.1474

60 (75) NEMACOLIN WOODLANDS RESORT (Mystic Rock)Farmington, Pa.57.0964

61 (68) PELICAN HILL G.C. (Ocean South)Newport Coast, Calif.57.0509

62 (54) GOLDEN HORSESHOE G.C. (Gold) Williamsburg, Va.57.0081

63 (67) THE CLASSIC AT MADDEN’S RESORT Brainerd, Minn.56.9954

64 (47) PINE NEEDLES LODGE & G.C.Southern Pines, N.C.56.9781

65 (80) MAKAI G.C. (Makai) Princeville, Kauai, Hawaii56.9470

66 (76) WORLD WOODS G.C. (Pine Barrens) Brooksville, Fla.56.8215

67 (63) PUMPKIN RIDGE G.C. (Ghost Creek) North Plains, Ore.56.8081

68 (New) TPC SAN ANTONIO (AT&T Oaks)San Antonio56.7730

69 (42) OMNI BARTON CREEK RESORT & SPA (Fazio Canyons) Austin56.6826

70 (77) THE BULL AT PINEHURST FARMSSheboygan Falls, Wis.56.6647

71 (87) TOBACCO ROAD G.C. Sanford, N.C.56.5662

72 (62) BLACKWOLF RUN (Meadow Valleys)Kohler, Wis.56.5514

73 (97) CALEDONIA G. & FISH C. Pawleys Island, S.C.56.5218

74 (51) LONGABERGER G.C.Nashport, Ohio56.5064

75 (New) THE PRAIRIE CLUB (Pines)Valentine, Neb.56.3803

76 (88) LINVILLE G.C. Linville, N.C.56.3775

77 (New) WILD HORSE G.C. Gothenburg, Neb.56.3307

78 (85) TURTLE BAY RESORT G.C. (Palmer)Kahuku, Oahu, Hawaii56.2944

79 (70) RED SKY RANCH & G.C. (Norman)Wolcott, Colo.56.2833

80 (57) PINEHURST RESORT (No. 8)Pinehurst, N.C. 56.1970

81 (72) GRAND TRAVERSE RESORT AND SPA (The Bear) Acme, Mich.56.1724

82 (71) KALUHYAT G.C.Verona, N.Y.56.0961

83 (100) THE DONALD ROSS CSE. AT FRENCH LICK French Lick, Ind.56.0554

84 (65) BAY HARBOR G.C. (Links/Quarry)Bay Harbor, Mich.56.0036

85 (New) THE G. CSES. OF LAWSONIA (Links) Green Lake, Wis.55.9612

86 (New) RED SKY RANCH & G.C. (Fazio)Wolcott, Colo.55.8457

87 (New) BELGRADE LAKES G.C. Belgrade Lakes, Maine55.8117

88 (81) THE COEUR D’ALENE RESORT G. CSE. Coeur d’Alene, Idaho55.8007

89 (New) PELICAN HILL G.C. (Ocean North) Newport Coast, Calif.55.7620

90 (New) TRUMP NATIONAL G.C. LOS ANGELES Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.55.7457

91 (New) DANCING RABBIT G.C. (The Azaleas)Philadelphia, Miss.55.7144

92 (89) MADERAS G.C. Poway, Calif.55.6708

93 (New) SANDPIPER G.C. Santa Barbara, Calif. 55.6374

94 (New) OLD WORKS G. CSE. Anaconda, Mont.55.6371

95 (New) GREAT WATERS AT REYNOLDS PLANTATION Eatonton, Ga.55.6286

96 (New)BAY HILL CLUB (Champion/Challenger)Orlando55.5832

97 (96) CIRCLING RAVEN G.C. Worley, Idaho55.5824

98 (New) BUFFALO RIDGE G.C.Hollister, Mo.55.5746

99 (New) HUALALAI G. CSE. Kailua-Kona, Hawaii55.5494

100 (93) WAILEA G.C. (Gold)Wailea, Maui, Hawaii55.5282

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▶ BAndon dunes The gorse is pretty but penal at Bandon Dunes, ranked No. 31 among America’s 100

Greatest and No. 7 on the 100 Greatest Public list.

bandon dunes

people who live in cold climates tend to make their winter golf trips to certified warm-

weather locations: to myrtle beach, say, or amelia island—the kinds of places where the

airports swarm with pale, middle-age guys wearing Taylormade hats. but on a whim

two years ago, my brother Tom, who is famous for playing guerrilla golf on frozen New

england fairways, and i headed instead to the bandon Dunes golf resort in oregon.

our families thought we had lost our minds. The conventional wisdom says you should

fly to Portland and drive five hours south or catch a connecting flight into the tiny North

bend airport. we landed in eugene, where standard headgear is the logging cap, and

▶ pAcific dunes Opened in 2001, Pacific Dunes is 14th on Golf Digest’s list of America’s 100 Greatest Courses and is No. 2 on the 100 Greatest Public list.

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drove west for a bit through Ken Kesey country, a rainforest of towering, moss-draped pines, and then south for a couple of hours along the Umpqua river, where all the fishing docks were empty. i cracked the window while passing through North bend, where giant mounds of sawdust heaped the wharf, waiting to be loaded onto freighters; the whiff of cedar was so strong it was like driving through a pencil sharpener.

This was in mid-February. we left home in the snow, or the blackened, crusty after-math of snow, traveled west and north for a day and found ourselves— miraculously—in golf weather: bright-blue sky, deep-blue ocean, just the hint of a breeze. we had brought sweaters, turtlenecks and rainsuits but wound up using none of them. There was a brief frost delay our first morning but none the second, and we ended both our rounds in shirtsleeves. after finishing up at Pacific Dunes—which is to say, messing up on the par-3 17th, where the wind carried our tee shots perilously right, and then achieving partial redemption with bogeys

on the par-5 18th—we ate beef-barbecue sandwiches outside the clubhouse and then just sat there on the belgian-block patio with our beers, soaking up the late-afternoon sun and congratulating ourselves on our good luck. my brother said: “This is the best experience i’ve ever had—except at nighttime.” (he was perhaps still basking in the afterglow of the day before, when he had blown my doors off at bandon Dunes.)

“February is our little secret here,” the bartender at mcKee’s Pub, one of the resort’s three watering holes, explained. “you have this little window when the days get a little longer and warmer, but before the spring rains.” Though February typically sees more than 7½ inches of rain along the oregon coast, not many days are total washouts; most bring no more than a trace of precipitation. even in the evenings, we discovered, it was warm enough to sit on the stone benches in front of the giant out-door fireplace next to mcKee’s and smoke a cigar under the starry sky. one night there we ran into a guy who had driven up from

California with his wife (back in their motel in town) and father-in-law because the rates were lower at this time of year, and was now drinking a toast to all the money he had saved. (in prime time, which lasts from may to october, the resort is roughly twice as expensive as in the off-season.

For three days we had the resort practi-cally to ourselves and saw only a couple of other golf groups. The range was deserted. The parking lot at the Lily Pond rooms, where we stayed, was empty except for one other car, and at night when i stood out on our little balcony i saw scarcely another light on. by 8 or 9 o’clock, mcKee’s was empty.

my brother and i were never lonely, though. The staff at bandon Dunes is so numerous, so helpful and so friendly that it’s a little startling at first—until you realize that these people aren’t drugged, they’re just genuinely nice. in the early days of bandon Dunes it was sometimes said there weren’t enough trained caddies to go around. one heard stories of clueless mother-son pairs, of

my brOther sAID: ‘thIs Is the best eXperIence I’ve ever hAD—eXcept At nIghttIme.’by chArLes mcgrAth


guys right off the salmon boat. but that’s no longer true, if it ever was. we had allison and Keith, who between them covered the whole spectrum of coaching philosophy, from attitude adjustment to X’s and o’s. allison, though she didn’t look it, was the single mother of a high school-age son. a better than average golfer, she had a keen sense of how to work around your swing’s limitations and was a boundless source of optimism and encouragement. Keith was a little more taciturn and busi-nesslike; though a nonplayer, he had an uncanny knowledge of the terrain and could read greens like a psychic. who was better? it depended on what you needed at the moment: morale-boosting or some serious focus on the task at hand. A summer sAmplinG all in all, our bandon experience was so positive that my brother and i went back last june, when in theory at least the place would be hopping. we booked in april, when there seemed to be plenty of rooms still available, but even so, the reservations clerk had to juggle a little to get us the tee times we wanted. The parking lots were fuller, there were vans hauling bags around and shuttling golfers out to the range, and at breakfast time especially the whole place thrummed with a certain urgency, with people lining up to chow down and get on the course. my brother and i were supposed to be paired with other twosomes, but, sur-prisingly, wound up going out on our own, though we had to share a caddie this time: a young guy named Vegas, who rolled all the virtues of allison and Keith into a single package. Vegas, who used to work guess where, knows every inch of all three bandon layouts, can spot and gently fix a swing flaw, and is also so immensely cool that you long to win his approval. “my man!” he would say, giving a little fist bump after a good shot, and it made you forget most of the bad ones.

somehow, despite all the additional guests, there seemed to be one eversmiling employee per visitor. and though it was busy, the place never felt crowded. bandon runs so efficiently that there are no backups at the tee, and because there are no carts, there are seldom any holdups on the course. you rarely see other golfers, let alone have to wait for them. we were surprised, though, that there didn’t seem to be much night life of the sort you find at, say, Pinehurst, where at the end of the day golfers instinctively

head for the bar to trade war stories. in our experience bandon was an early-to- bed kind of place, and life there had its own sweet rhythm—not unlike a good round of golf, in fact: deliberate, unhurried, sometimes surprising, but also reassuringly the same.

so when is the best time to go? it’s probably dangerous to draw too many conclusions, but our june weather was, if anything, a little less good than it had been in February: grayer and cooler, though not so much to discourage a lot of guys from wearing shorts. The days were much longer, on the other hand, which meant that it was easy to get in 36 holes, and even for the die-hards to take advantage of bandon’s policy of offering a third daily round for free. (in February we might have managed 27 holes but didn’t try.) The flowers were out (at bandon Trails especially) and instead of being dramatic and foreboding the beach below the cliffside fairways was bustling. Dune buggies zipped along, outraced by guys who were para-surfing—bounding from wave to wave at the end of giant kites.

The biggest difference, of course, was the presence of an additional golf course. bandon Trails was still being worked on by bill Coore and ben Crenshaw during our first visit, and my brother and i were, frankly, a little skeptical. how could it possibly equal the two others, bandon Dunes and Pacific Dunes? but amazingly it does. The first hole, over scrub and through a saddle of sand dunes, is arguably the best opener on the premises, and the uphill stretch of 16, 17, 18, is easily the best finishing

sequence. between, there are meadows, inland dunes and woods so imposing they’re like cathedrals. bandon Trails is in a league of its own, clearly related to the others but in a landscape that at times seems utterly different: vaster, more expansive, and with more wildlife (including the occasional cougar) and more changes in elevation.

(golf Digest ranks Tom Doak’s Pacific Dunes 14th and David mcLay Kidd’s bandon Dunes 31st among america’s 100 greatest Courses. bandon Trails doesn’t become eligible until 2009. on the list of 100 greatest Public Courses, Pacific Dunes is No. 2, bandon Dunes No. 7 and bandon Trails No. 21.)

The additional course argues for a summertime visit, when there is more daylight and when, despite our experience, the weather is usually more reliable. in time there will be another draw: a fourth course, old macdonald. Doak and jim Urbina’s tribute to architect C.b. mac-donald is scheduled to open in july 2010. There’s just so much more golf you need to get in—unless you can spend an extra day or two in the off-season and explore the place more leisurely. That would be my vote. i’d hate to be there in the rain, but bandon in February was magical, an unexpected gift, and the relative quietness and stillness of the resort made it seem private and exclusive—a place you could play forever without growing bored or weary. we felt like the luckiest (and smartest) golfers who ever lived, to have this perfect little world all to ourselves.

fOr three DAys we hAD bAnDOn prActIcA LLy tO OurseLves.

we feLt LIKe the LucKIest (AnD smArtest) gOLfers whO ever LIveD.

▶ BAndon trAils the first (left) and 18th holes (right) are two reasons bandon trails is ranked No. 21

among america’s 100 greatest Public Courses.


OREGONHOMAGE

INSPIRED By C.B. MACDONALD’S LONG-GONE LIDO GL,TOM DOAK AND JIM URBINA HAVE DELIVERED

A USER-FRIENDLy TRIBUTE TO THE ICONIC ARCHITECT —BANDON DUNES RESORT’S FOURTH COURSE,

OLD MACDONALD GL

BY R O N W H I T T E N P H O T O S BY S T E P H E N S Z U R L E J


ORIGINALLy PUBLISHED MAy 2010

eiser sTiLL haD PLeNTy oF UNDeVeLoPeD LaND aT his vast oregon resort, particularly a gorse-covered valley that was hard against the Pacific coastline but appeared to be a featureless bowl. already with a trio of natural,

lay-of-the-land layouts (oK, so parts of all three were artfully shaped to appear natural), he didn’t want to add a fourth 18 that would look manufactured and contrived.

so he asked for ideas from friends and customers. one response he got was from george bahto, a New jersey dry cleaner turned golf design fanatic who wrote The evangelist of golf, the definitive biography of america’s first real golf architect, Charles blair macdonald. you’re a fan of macdonald’s long-lost Lido gC on Long island, bahto told him—why not recreate the entire course, bump for bump, bunker for bunker, at your resort?

The idea intrigued Keiser. Though far too young to have ever played Lido, which closed during world war ii, he had read enough about it to understand it was considered one of america’s very best designs in its day. so he sent a map of the original Lido to Doak and asked if it were feasible.

“i thought it was a cool idea,” Doak later explained. “but i didn’t think it would fit on the site we had to work with, and maybe we ought to try to do something different, but keep the macdonald theme.”

Thus was born old macdonald gL, the latest addition to the bandon Dunes resort, some say destined to be the most popular 18 of the bunch, at least for the “retail golfer,” as Keiser likes to call the average-handicap destination player who’ll pay good money to take on 36 walking-only holes a day for several days in succession. old macdonald features holes fashioned with macdonald’s favorite design principles, built on an oversize scale that makes the other 54 seem claustrophobic. its fairways are so wide and greens so vast that they seem impossible to miss, although sweeping ocean winds will quickly remedy such delusions. old mac’s elbow room allows you to play your own game—high ball or low, slice or hook, bomb and gouge or bunt and giggle.

you don’t have to know anything about C.b. macdonald to enjoy old macdonald, but a little background will enhance the experience. as the first champion of the U.s. amateur in 1895, C.b. staked out the nation’s first 18-hole golf course at Chicago gC. in 1901 he read an article that debated which were the best golf holes

That was the problem for Mike Keiser, owner of Bandon Dunes Resort,

whose Tom Doak-designed Pacific Dunes is currently 14th, David McLay Kidd-designed Bandon Dunes is 33rd and

Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw-designed Bandon Trails is 80th.

WHEN YOU ALREADY HAVE THREE OF THE MOST

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in great britain. That gave him the idea to build 18 holes consisting of his personal selection. it took him 10 years to accomplish National gL of america, a concept course consisting of both reproductions of great british holes and original ones that cobbled together one or more features from other holes.

macdonald followed it with a dozen more courses over the

next decade and a half, always with the same motif. his Lido in 1915 was perhaps the most ambitious, created on an ocean-front landfill, allowing him to sculpt every hillock, hollow and dune from deposited sand. Doak, as the design consultant for many of macdonald’s courses over the past 20 years, knew the old man’s work intimately. what’s more, he spent a year after college playing all the great courses in great britain, so he had seen the original holes as

well. he knew there were seven or eight concepts that any hom-age to macdonald would have to contain, including the eden (the par-3 11th at the old Course at st. andrews), the redan (the par-3 15th at North berwick) and the road hole (the 17th on the old Course). The rest would be fashioned in the macdonald manner of cherry-picking ideas and features, a bunker from this course beside a green from that one and so on.

ramrodding the design and construction was jim Urbina, Doak’s longtime chief design associate, so instrumental in the final product that Keiser granted him co-credit for old macdonald’s design. Keiser also assembled a team of consul-tants to assist in the endeavor. bahto, naturally, was included, as was brad Klein of golfweek, who specializes in architectural criticism, and Karl olson, a low-handicapper who had served for many years as superintendent at National. “we needed some guys who think they know everything about macdonald,” Doak says, “so that if there’s anything that’s looking out of place, somebody’s going to pipe up and say some-thing about it.”

other macdonald buffs who now venture to bandon expectingto see reproductions

▶ YOU DON’T HAVE TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT C.B. MACDONALD TO ENJOY OLD MACDONALD, BUT A LITTLE BACKGROUND WILL ENHANCE THE ExPERIENCE.

▶ spreAdinG the Gospel As Macdonald was inspired by Britain’s best, “Old” (No. 7, shown) keeps a C.B. theme.


of classic golf holes will be dis-appointed. There are none of the geometric features of macdonald’s originals, no rectangular greens or flat-sand bunkers with long, steep, angular grass faces.

The idea was never to do blatant replicas, Doak says. The approach was to envision what C.b. might have done, had he actually designed a course on the soft sand of coastal oregon.

The result is right-brain architecture of left-brain ideas, far more dunesy than anything macdonald ever contemplated, even at Lido, which was down-right flat in comparison. his concepts are there, but one must look hard to recognize some of them. C.b.’s many biarritz greens, for instance, were invariably 70 yards long and fairly narrow, with a deep trench slashing the green perpendicularly and long strip bunkers on each flank. but at the eighth at old macdonald, the biarritz green is nearly as wide as it is deep, the trench is more like a meandering stream bed and one section of the put-ting surface even contains a little horseshoe-shaped mound suggested by bahto.

The redan was a particular challenge for Doak, since he had already built a perfectly good one at Pacific Dunes right next door. so he made old macdonald’s

redan longer and downwind, with a less fearsome (but still ball-gobbling) front-left bunker. Unlike the original, the putting surface doesn’t slope backwards at a steady angle and lacks any

nasty pot bunkers beyond the green. (by the way, having two redan holes at one facility is in keeping with C.b.’s philosophy. “i consider the redan to be the finest one-shot hole in the world,” he once wrote, “and on any golf course where one has the freedom in choice, there should always be a redan.”)

The short hole was another dilemma for Doak. in macdonald’s portfolio, it was invariably a short pitch-shot par 3 to a wildly undulating green, supposedly based upon a hole at royal west Norfolk at brancaster in england. but Doak could never find anything at brancaster that remotely resembled it. so in the end he and Urbina improvised,

▶ THE IDEA WAS NEVER TO DO BLATANT REPLICAS, DOAK SAYS. THE APPROACH WAS TO ENVISION WHAT C.B. MIGHT HAVE DONE, HAD HE ACTUALLY DESIGNED A COURSE ON THE SOFT SAND OF COASTAL OREGON.

▶ OLD MACDONALD’S MOST ORIGINAL HOLE IS ITS 363-YARD SEVENTH, CALLED OCEAN

creating a green 80 yards wide with exaggerated mounds and contours throughout.

Turns out, they were correct in assuming literary license. The original short hole with its undulating green was conjured up by macdonald during a meeting at hoylake in 1906, and it was not a copy of anything at brancaster, except for its short length. “it is true that i mentioned the short hole at brancaster at our meeting,” macdonald wrote, “but my criticism of that hole is that the green is higher than the tee, so one cannot see where the flag goes into the hole. on all short holes, the player should be able to see where the pin enters the hole.”

The tees on old macdonald’s short hole, the 160-yard fifth, are indeed elevated above the green, but there are a couple of knobs and dips in the green that could obscure a view of the hole, if not the flag.

in the end, Keiser still got his Lido course, in a manner of speaking. just as old macdonald now has, the original Lido had a Double Plateau hole, and a Cape hole, a hog’s back, a Long, Leven, Littlestone, alps, Punch bowl and road, as well as a short, redan and biarritz. after all, Lido was old C.b.’s

consummate design, and old macdonald is the consummate cover of the great man’s greatest hits.

one of Lido’s few original holes was its triple-fairway 18th, based upon a magazine contest winning design submitted by Dr. alister mackenzie.

old macdonald’s most original hole is its 363-yard seventh, called ocean, with a green atop a dune overlooking the Pacific. That green location was suggested

by Keiser, whose initial idea for the entire bandon complex was to build 18 winning holes from a golf Digest armchair architect contest. To the eternal benefit of golfers everywhere, he was quickly talked out of that idea.

if, as Keiser says, Doak is architecturally the heir to macdonald (and Doak certainly has been both as inventive and as outspoken as old C.b.), then Urbina is this generation’s seth raynor. raynor, a civil engineer by training, was macdonald’s chief associate in nearly all of his creations.

Urbina was a college foot-ball player turned fire-fighter who got into golf construction for Pete Dye in Colorado in the mid- 1980s. he joined Doak’s team in 1987 and was the day-to-day project architect for many of Doak successes, including Pacific Dunes and sebonack gC. soon after old macdonald was completed, Doak, needing to downsize his company in the wake of the economic collapse, suggested to jim that he start seeking independent work.

so at age 51, Urbina has hung out his own design shingle. raynor’s experience should be encouraging to Urbina. after Lido, raynor started designing on his own, and has cult status these days with such gems as mountain Lake in Florida, shoreacres in Chicago, Fox Chapel in Pittsburgh and yea-mans hall in Charleston, s.C.

it’s far too soon to know if an Urbina cult will ever emerge. but old macdonald gL is as good a start as any new architect could hope for.

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links hAs Been messier thAn most, mainly because it has been incessantly poked and prodded by well-meaning amateurs, professionals, architects, engineers, artists and committees, committees, committees. Ultimately it turned out great, of course, and june 17-20 Pebble will be the site of its fifth U.s. open (to go with four U.s. amateurs).

but for a lot of years, Pebble beach, rAnked no. 6 on Golf diGest’s list of

AmericA’s 100 GreAtest Golf courses, looked a lot more like a platypus than a barracuda. Therein lies a story—many stories, actually—on how a pile of rocks was transformed, by accident and by intent, into the most BreAthtAkinG, thrillinG And

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jack Nicklaus, the victim of watson’s heroics, later called it “one of the great shots in the history of the game.” watson was tied with Nicklaus for the lead in the final round of the 1982 U.s. open when his tee shot at the par-3 17th went left and landed in deep rough between the green and the sea. with the ball above the hole, it looked like an extremely difficult up-and-down. but after watson’s caddie, bruce edwards, told him to knock it close, watson famously responded, “Close? hell, i’m going to sink it.”

watson’s chip hit the flag-stick and dropped for a birdie, and he followed with another birdie at the par-5 18th for a two-stroke victory. Ten years later, Nicklaus told us that losing to watson’s chip-in was the biggest disappointment of his open career: “if it didn’t hit,” Nicklaus said, “the ball was going eight or 10 feet by.”

The winter after the ‘82 open, a huge storm struck Pebble. enormous waves pounded the coastline, and during the night, a huge chunk of the 17th green and 18th tee slid into the sea. with it went the slight mound from which watson played his historic shot.

The sea wall was quickly patched and the 17th green and surrounds were soon backfilled and re-sodded, although the precise elevation of watson’s spot could not be duplicated. Not until a new seawall was constructed in 1997 was the back tee box of the 18th re-established.

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n oT LoNg aF Ter watson’s chip-in, he organized a group that tried to replicate the shot.

it happened prior to the 1983 bing Crosby National Pro-am. watson was having dinner at the Lodge with friends, including former Usga president Frank (sandy) Tatum, and they were later joined by cartoonist hank Ketcham, creator of the “Dennis the menace” cartoon character. after a bottle or two of champagne, watson blurted, “hey, let’s go play the shot!” he left the dining room, then returned, as Tatum says, with three balls and the club used to perform the deed. it didn’t matter that it was after 10:30 at night. six men traipsed out to the 17th green.

after some fussing about the exact location—“everyone had an opinion, and Tom’s was the one listened to the least,” Tatum recalled—they placed a ball to represent the hole, then retreated to the rough and took turns trying to “hole it.”

as Nicklaus might have predicted, no one came close. watson, according to informed sources, finished only third or fourth in the competition.

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p rior To PebbLe’s first open, in 1972, Tatum headed a committee that revamped the course. when the open returned in 1982, Tatum urged officials to implement a couple of renovations that didn’t get done 10 years before. one was the deepening of a fairway

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bunker on the right side of the par-4 16th. he got it rebuilt, complete with a three-foot vertical front wall of stacked sod. in the final round, his good friend watson, leading Nick-laus by one with three to play, drove into that bunker, right up against that face. watson had to pitch out sideways and bogeyed the hole to drop into a share of the lead before his miraculous finish.

if Tatum, who was in the gallery on 16 when watson drove into the bunker, felt any remorse over its severity, he didn’t express it. instead, he turned to friends and said, “That’s what this bunker was meant to do.”

w h e N P e b b L e beach opened in 1919, its 18th hole was a short, straight par 4. in defense of the original designers, jack Neville and Douglas grant, it was the best they could do. Their topographic map shows they positioned the green just in front of a deep ravine, with the Pacific on the left and a 75-cent toll road called 17 mile Drive, soon relocated, close on the right. it wasn’t their fault the green was only 325 yards from the tee. They’d proposed an ocean-side tee box to stretch the hole to 379 yards, but it wasn’t built. Funds were limited.

in april 1920, Pebble’s owner, samuel Finley brown morse, invited british golf architect w. herbert Fowler to inspect Pebble beach. sure enough, Fowler suggested an ocean-side tee for 18, and this time, morse had it built.

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m o r s e w a s o N L y 30 when he began disposing of the heavily taxed property on the monterey Peninsula. at first he started selling the land off as housing lots, but then he changed his mind. he was convinced he could build and maintain 18 holes on the cheap. The place for the course was ocean frontage called Pebble beach.

given the go-ahead, he solicited routings from six de-signers (most of whose names, sadly, are long forgotten). he ended up choosing Neville

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golf association that Pebble still had “a woefully poor finishing hole,” morse brought Fowler back. This time Fowler proposed filling in the ravine, building a sea wall and back-filling a new green location some 170 yards farther up the shoreline, turning the hole into a boomerang-shape par 5.

Thus was created what many consider the finest finishing hole in golf—certainly the most photogenic. over the years, bunkers have been added and shifted, trees removed and transplanted, and the tee box and sea walls reconstructed from bedrock up, but the 18th remains as Fowler suggested 90 years ago. (The 18th will play at 543 yards for this year’s open.)

by the way, photos show that Fowler also ran a creek through a pipe buried in a smaller ravine to create the base for his new green. The remainder of that ravine was filled in during the 1950s. if, some day, Pebble’s 18th green suddenly collapses into a trench, it won’t be because of an earthquake. it will be because that buried culvert—made of wood, rock or concrete?—finally gave way.

and grant, two top golfers who worked for free to preserve their amateur status. (in those days, the Usga decreed that all architects were pros.)

among morse’s money- saving ideas were the use of sheep to clip the grass (they

damaged greens and soon ended up on the menu) and the use of pelican droppings scraped from rocks as fertilizer (which killed the grass). he had to be persuaded to hire a real superintendent.

Neville and grant produced a mixed bag. Pebble opened with mostly square greens and bunkers shaped like cigars and crescents. The course measured barely 6,000 yards.

The routing was basically as it exists today, with several notable exceptions. The ninth was a short par 4, the 10th a sharp-dogleg par 5 over a corner of the Pacific coast; today they’re par 4s totaling 1,000 yards. The par-4 16th was just 277 yards to a green short of a deep ravine; now it plays at 403 yards over the ravine.

Neville and grant got some key decisions right. They chose the spot for the short, downhill seventh—109 yards for this year’s open—with its green on a point surrounded by Carmel bay. architect Pete Dye has said that if he’d been walking the property before the routing was done, he probably would have walked right by the seventh hole. Nicklaus agrees. “i probably would have walked right by it, too,” jack says, “because it wouldn’t look like there’s room enough for a hole.”

The original course diagram showed the eighth green (as a par 5) well away from the ocean cliffs, in the vicinity of the present ninth tees, but it must have been relocated prior to construction. a 1920 photo shows the green in its present position, hugging the cliff, providing what Nicklaus calls his favorite shot in golf.

a F T e r T w o y e a r s o F construction, which Neville supervised, a preview event in march 1918 was a disaster. Pro mike brady shot 79-75 to win by 13 strokes. The dozen invited pros were openly critical. There were more rocks and weeds than turfgrass. There were deep ravines everywhere. The greens were impossible.

Neville was apologetic. morse panicked and asked harold sampson, a pro at morse’s other course, Del monte, to fix things. over the next decade, morse allowed any number of people to make refinements and improvements, including famed landscape painter Francis mcComas, who penned the famous line, “the greatest meeting of land and sea,” erroneously attributed to robert Louis stevenson. mcComas was writing not of Pebble beach, but of Point Lobos farther down the coast.

morse also solicited suggestions from visiting architects, including Donald ross on his only trip to California. There’s evidence that alister mackenzie, who would create Cypress Point next door, redesigned the eighth and 13th greens.

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beatty, who had paid a little more than $6,000, refused to sell it back to morse. so Neville and grant had to design around it, forcing them to create a par-3 fifth hole that played away from the ocean.

arnold Palmer, a present co-owner of Pebble, described it as “an awful, terrible hole.” Tee shots on the 180-yarder had to thread between trees and over a ravine. some called it golf’s only dogleg par 3.

beatty’s home went on the market after his widow died in 1941, but morse didn’t have the money to buy it. so it remained a private residence until 1995, when the Pebble beach Co. (then owned by japanese inter-ests) bought the land for more than $8 million, sold two inland sections as home sites (one of them to Charles schwab) and turned the ocean frontage over to Nicklaus to design a new par-3 fifth. it took three years, including an extended battle over removal of an ancient oak, before the hole was completed in November 1998.

a s K a N y P e b b L e beach official who it was that proposed the latest changes to the coursefor the 2010 U.s. open, and the answer is always, “it was a company decision.” but the company deferred, ultimately, to Palmer.

so when Neal hotelling, director of corporate affairs and longtime Pebble beach historian, unearthed dozens of old photographs of the course and circulated them among senior vice president of golf rj harper, superintendent Chris Dalhamer and others, several suggested it would be great to re-establish some bunkers and

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features had eroded. but Palmer was given the final say.

he approved of a new bunker along the left side of the first green because there was one there in the 1929 amateur. but he also insisted on adding three bunkers in a hillside on the outside corner of the dogleg-left third, even though there’d never been any bunkers there. “That’s something i’ve wanted to do ever since i first saw Pebble beach,” Palmer says. “That whole hillside was sort of wasted.”

Thad Layton, a course architect in Palmer’s orlando office, prepared the plans for new bunkers but never made a site visit to Pebble. Dalhamer supervised their construction by a contractor, hole by hole, to avoid interrupting play and requiring that green fees be discounted. That’s always the company way at Pebble beach.

Palmer also suggested transplanting several mature trees, replacing old pines on the 18th with cypress, placing new trees near the second green to tighten the approach and planting new trees down the right side of 15 to screen 17 mile Drive from the tee.

Perhaps the most dramatic change for this year’s open came from mike Davis of the Usga, who suggested that the fairways on Nos. 4, 6, 8, 9 and 10 be shifted closer to the cliffs to bring the ocean back in play. Palmer agreed and even suggested new bunkers on the fourth and sixth that would further push big hitters to the edge. “if they want to go long, they’d better be accurate,” Palmer says.

after Dalhamer speculated that the fairways were like that in the beginning, we asked Palmer if he recalled just how close to the cliffs the fairways had been. after a long, cold stare, he replied, “i’m not that old.”


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SAN FRANCISCO LOVE STORy A native son reflects on what makes the city game in general and the olympic cluB in particular so special By JAime diAZ

I t has been 35 years since i’ve lived in my hometown of san Francisco, and for

as many of the great golf places i’ve been lucky enough to experience since, it’s clear that i was long ago imprinted by the colors and smells and turf and trees of the city where i learned to play. harding Park remains my template of an american parkland course, and Lincoln Park, with its bony and beautiful funkiness, prepared me to feel at home on the spare classics of the british isles. in my opinion, a san Francisco- bred golfer travels well.

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The olympic Club, by contrast, i think of as an unattainable ideal. Though it lies little more than a mile from harding just across Lake merced, the course has existed in the distance for me. i always looked forward to getting to the 14th tee, from where i could view olympic’s majestic cream and red-roof clubhouse framed above fairways and forest, the composition so perfect it looked like a painted ’50s movie backdrop for Camelot or shangri-La. i also knew olympic was san Francisco’s key link to golf history, the poignant place where ben hogan and arnold Palmer had fallen hardest, from where johnny miller had risen, and about which Charles Price and Dan jenkins had written with mind-opening style in the coffee-table golf books i kept by my bed. The olympic Club was my first and enduring connection to the game’s unofficial but undisputed world rota.

i’ve always worshipped the Lake Course more than i’ve known it. even after i got to play it a few times, i never wanted it to feel familiar. my most powerful memory of olympic remains the first time i saw it close up, on the afternoon of the fourth round of the 1966 open, when i was 12. after hearing on the car radio that Palmer led by seven strokes with nine to play, my father decided to turn off interstate 280 and head for the coronation. when we got there, people were leaving, and we parked near the clubhouse. on the leader board was the unbelievable evidence that Palmer hadn’t won, that somehow he and billy Casper had tied. Palmer then walked by with a security escort, resplendent in a deep-blue cardigan and white shirt, even his bronzed face muscular, but his lips pursed and his eyes wounded. That image will always stay with me, but even more vivid was the emerald ribbon of the 18th fairway. it was akin to going through the doors of a major-league ballpark for the first time and looking down on the field, except that olympic’s shade of green was even richer than Candlestick Park’s. The sensation was similar to the shift from black and white to Technicolor in “The wizard of oz.”

so, yes, i’ll admit major bias when it comes to evaluating olympic as the premier championship site for a U.s. open. but that doesn’t mean it isn’t true.

olympic is inarguably special. Factor its full menu of components—45 holes, the 10-level downtown club on Post street,

a circa 1925 arthur brown jr.-designed clubhouse, its setting on a rim above the Pacific ocean that is also closer (six miles) to the pulsing center of a great city than any other current U.s. major-championship course—and it’s hard to argue that any golf club offers more.

‘the lAnd of the 140-yArd 6-iron’

Even putting all that aside, for the purposes of rating a U.s. open site, the jewel that is the Lake

Course is plenty. The prevailing course conditions require more truly struck shots than anywhere else. The reasons are multiple: the heavy sea air, especially when it’s windy; the rye/bluegrass rough that is thicker and juicier than what’s found on east Coast venues or in southern California; the ever-encroaching “catcher’s mitt” trees that allow few alleys of escape and seem to contain the fog like a soup bowl; deep, greenside bunkers with dense sand that impedes the easy glide of the modern wedge; small greens with minimal “safe”

sides that demand accurate iron play. arron oberholser, who grew up just outside of san Francisco before becoming a winner on the Pga Tour, calls olympic and other city courses “the land of the 140-yard 6-iron,” adding, “it’s just a harder brand of golf than anywhere else.”

in short, there is no scraping it around olympic. even without a water hazard, only one fairway bunker and measuring less than 6,800 yards in each of its first four U.s. opens played there from 1955-’98, the combined score by the winners was two over par. No “little” course ever played so big.

giants of the game took note. after visiting Northern California for the first time, in the 1920s, architect alister mackenzie wrote, “The sand-dune country owned by The olympic Club, although not so spectacular as that on the monterey Peninsula, is the finest golfing territory i have seen in america.” hogan would call olympic his favorite U.s. open venue. byron Nelson, after winning the san Francisco open three times in the ’40s, came back regularly in the ’50s to play exhibitions and tutor the

young Ken Venturi. “in my experience,” Nelson said in 1998, san Francisco “is the best area in the country to play golf if you want to be a good player. i really loved playing there.”

The city’s best have always been artistic players, reflected in the iron mastery of Venturi and miller, the short-game wizardry of bob rosburg, and the putting of george archer, a foursome that collectively won the grand slam. Perhaps the best evidence the san Francisco area fostered complete golfers was the way Tony Lema, who grew up across the bay in san Leandro and worked in the golf shop at the san Francisco golf Club, won the 1964 british open at the old Course the first time he ever played in the british isles.

miller, who was given a junior membership at olympic several years before tying for eighth in the 1966 open at 19, has been the most insistent expounder of san Francisco golf. “it was the greatest training ground a golfer could have,” he says. “The ball never

really went anywhere because of the fog; you had to be able to turn the ball both ways, had to be able to play from slimy lies.” miller always attributed his famous blowout wins on flat, perfectly manicured desert courses in the light air of Phoenix and Tucson to the contrast from san Francisco. “Compared to where i came from,” he said, “the game was easy.”

but just as miller has been the last of the great san Francisco-bred players, olympic’s days of hosting the open appeared to have passed with the equipment and distance revolution that changed pro golf around 2000. after the multilayer ball in particular instantly added 10 yards to the drives of most touring pros, the Lake Course seemed to get a lot less olympian. The Usga thought the same thing, and needed to vet a lengthened version of the course (by about 150 yards) with the 2007 U.s. amateur.

That championship went well, but the olympic leadership stayed proactive, making even bigger changesthat will allow this year’s open to be played at 7,170 yards,

‘SAN FRANCISCO WAS PROBABLy ThE BEST CITy EVER IN WhICh TO BE A GOOD PLAyER.’


● THE OLYMPIC CLUB’S LAKE COURSE is this year’s U.S. Open site; the adjoining Ocean and Cliffs courses are spectacular.

● TPC HARDING PARK was the host of the 2009 Presidents Cup.

● SAN FRANCISCO GOLF CLUB ranks 33rd among America’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses.

● Tiger Woods made his USGA debut in the 1990 USGA Junior at LAKE MERCED GOLF CLUB.

A CLUSTER OF WONDERFUL GOLF

par 70. Though still comparatively little on the card, olympic once again plays big.

The Lake Course will feature the most rigorous start in major-championship golf. with the first hole being changed from an easy par 5 to a 520-yard par 4, the player is put on the defensive and doesn’t get even close to a break until the drivable seventh, a par 4 of 288 yards. From there olympic becomes a potential comeback course, with augusta-style stroke swings especially possible on the last four holes: the 154-yard 15th; the behemoth, 670-yard 16th; the reachable but risky 522-yard, par-5 17th; and the 344-yard 18th, which will be given some finishing-hole rigor with a 21-yard-wide fairway.

miller, also biased, thinks the new olympic might prove itself to be the greatest test in modern championship golf. i look forward to a re-energizing of the once-vaunted san Francisco golf continuum. before the 1998 U.s. open at olympic, rosburg, who passed away in 2009, fondly remembered his 1940s upbringing in the city’s richmond district, saying, “to grow up a golfer in san Francisco when i did was special.”

The local golf culture reached its peak in the mid-’50s, when Venturi and harvie ward battled for supremacy in the san Francisco City Championship, the amateur event that is the oldest consecutively played competition in the world. Their 36-hole final in 1956 at harding Park, which Venturi won, 4 and 3, was attended by a gallery of 10,000. “san Francisco was probably the best city ever in which to be a good player,” said ward, who died in 2004. “it seemed like everybody liked golf, especially all the restaurant owners, and they treated us like we were big time. when we walked into one of their places, we were on par with joe Dimaggio and hugh mcelhenny.”

During open week, golfers will outrank the giants’ Tim Lincecum and the 49ers’ Frank gore. Certainly the Usga will enjoy san Francisco. There’s the great city itself, no lightning delays, and prime-time television coverage back east. but more than anything, there will be the anticipation of real history, a mystique that began with hogan. as the Usga’s mike Davis says, “There’s something magical about olympic.”

see, i’m not the only one.

▶ The 288-yard seventh hole, a drivable par 4, is the first good birdie chance after a rugged start.


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