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Pine Valley - Pine Valley Golf Club was the dream of a Philadelphian hotelier, George Crump, who sadly died before its completion.
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Cypress Point - Cypress Point Club is set at the foothills of the Santa Lucia Mountains on the very tip of the Monterey Peninsula and the cliff top terrain is varied and thrilling.
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Royal County Down (Championship) - Royal County Down Golf Club is at Newcastle, a little holiday town nestling at the feet of the majestic Mountains of Mourne. It’s an exhilarating location for a classic links golf course...
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Shinnecock Hills - Not only was Shinnecock Hills Golf Club one of the five founding members of the USGA but also it was where one of the first specifically designed golf clubhouses was built.
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Augusta National - Augusta National Golf Club is one of the most exclusive clubs in the world and was designed by the world’s greatest golfer, who teamed up with the world’s greatest architect.
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Sand Hills - Sand Hills Golf Club is a club to respect and those in the know admire their non-commerciality and that is a delightful break from tradition these days...
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Oakmont - Apart from Augusta National, Oakmont Country Club has hosted more major Championships than any other course in the U.S. and it’s considered by many to be the toughest golf course in the world.
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Merion (East) - When Merion Golf Club was founded in 1896, Philadelphians were more likely to play cricket than golf.
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St Andrews (Old) - No other course has hosted more Opens than the Old Course at St Andrews. Its 28th Open and the 139th Open Championship returned “to the Home of Golf” in 2010.
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Muirfield - Muirfield is the course of “The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers” (HCEG), the world’s oldest golf club – according to direct written evidence – formed in 1744.
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Pebble Beach - Cypress Point is the course you can’t play at Pebble Beach, but thankfully Pebble Beach Golf Links is one you can.
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Royal Melbourne (West) - The West course at Royal Melbourne Golf Club is generally acknowledged as the best course in Australia and the finest design of Dr Alister MacKenzie.
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Royal Dornoch (Championship) - Royal Dornoch Golf Club is spellbinding. It seems to mesmerise amateur and professional golfers from all over the world...
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Royal Portrush (Dunluce) - Since its foundation in 1888, Royal Portrush Golf Club has undergone a transformation in more ways than one.
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National Golf Links of America - National Golf Links of America is a golf course of monumental historical importance, it’s a “Bear’s Best”, or “Blair's Best” of the early 20th century.
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Bandon Dunes (Pacific Dunes) - Pacific Dunes is considered by many to be the best course at the fabulous Bandon Dunes Golf Resort.
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Turnberry (Ailsa) - The Ailsa course at the Turnberry Resort is probably the most scenic Open Championship golf course. Located right next to the Firth of Clyde, with craggy rocks and superb views across to the Mull of Kintyre...
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Kingston Heath - Kingston Heath Golf Club pushes Royal Melbourne – and in some opinions exceeds it – as the premier course in Australian golf.
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Ballybunion (Old) - As you drive from the historic town of Ballybunion, along the winding road to the golf club, your eyes feast upon the most spectacular links land imaginable.
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Crystal Downs - Crystal Downs Country Club is set delightfully on a headland that is wedged between Lake Michigan and Crystal Lake in America’s Midwest.
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Winged Foot (West) - The West course at Winged Foot Golf Club is the work of A.W. Tillinghast, one of America’s greatest golf course designers, and this is Tilly’s finest creation.
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Royal St George's - There's nothing artificial about Royal St George’s Golf Club; there's a natural look and feel to the course that blends beautifully into the surroundings.
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Chicago - Chicago Golf Club is one of America’s most exclusive golf clubs and today it is still intensely private.
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Fishers Island - Fishers Island Club is set romantically on a narrow island that is a mere two miles wide and eight miles long.
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Seminole - Situated on the Atlantic side of Florida’s coastline, Seminole Golf Club is considered by critics to be one of the finest examples of golf course routing.
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Royal Birkdale - Royal Birkdale Golf Club is the favourite English course on the British Open rota according to the results of a Top 100 poll...
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Pinehurst (No.2) - Pinehurst No.2 course opened for play in 1907 and its green sites are the ultimate test, legendary and quite unique.
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Sunningdale (Old) - The Old course at Sunningdale Golf Club is one of the British Isles’ most aesthetically pleasing inland courses.
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Carnoustie (Championship) - Carnoustie is a big natural seaside golf links and the Championship course is considered to be one of the most difficult in the British Isles.
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Barnbougle Dunes - Barnbougle Dunes is a memorable golf course made by enthusiasts for enthusiasts.
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Prairie Dunes - Prairie Dunes Country Club is an inland links jewel, which is set in the heart of America. It has many characteristics of a classic seaside links.
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Friar's Head - Set in 350 acres, this rugged course was designed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw and opened for play in 2003 with the philosophy that golf at Friar’s Head should be about options and creativity.
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New South Wales - New South Wales Golf Club is one of the most spectacular golf courses in Australia and it’s one of the toughest tests in the country.
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Whistling Straits (Straits) - If you didn’t know the history behind Whistling Straits, you’d believe that the 560-acres of land had been shaped by the hands of time.
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Cape Kidnappers - If you can keep your eyes off the cliff top views, the main golfing points of the golf course at Cape Kidnappers are the bunkers and the greens.
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Country Club, Brookline (Clyde & Squirrel) - The name may sound a little arrogant and for golfers in the know, there’s no need to explain that the Country Club was the first of its type in the USA.
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Kingsbarns - One of the many delights of Kingsbarns Golf Links is that you can see the North Sea from virtually every part of the course.
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Oakland Hills (South) - With many holes lined by trees, six US Opens and one Ryder Cup under its belt, Oakland Hills Country Club should be treated with respect.
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Woodhall Spa (Hotchkin) - Woodhall Spa Golf Club is an oasis in the heart of Lincolnshire, set amongst glorious pine, birch and broom, this heathland golf course is an absolute delight to play.
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San Francisco - Albert Warren Tillinghast was probably the greatest American golf course architect of his day and “Tilly” was the genius who crafted San Francisco in 1915.
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Riviera - There are few courses with no weaknesses, but the Riviera Country Club can take the moniker. It’s a truly remarkable golf course routed across less than ideal terrain.
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Hirono - Hirono Golf Club has played host to all the major Japanese championships and, although it measures a mere 6,925 yards from the back tees, it’s a supreme test of golf.
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Lahinch (Old) - Lahinch Golf Club is an enchanting place to play golf. It’s rugged, distinctive, unusually varied and immensely entertaining.
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Royal Lytham & St Annes - Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club is the most northerly of the English championship links courses, situated only 10 miles from Royal Birkdale.
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Kiawah Island Resort (Ocean) - According to Pete Dye, "There’s no other golf course in the Northern Hemisphere that has as many seaside holes" as the Ocean course at Kiawah Island.
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Portmarnock (Championship) - ”I know of no greater finish in the world than that of the last five holes at Portmarnock Golf Club”, said Bernard Darwin
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Olympic Club (Lake) - Host to four US Opens, the Lake course at Olympic Club is a serious challenge. Take your stabilisers and expect few level lies on these sloping fairways.
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Casa de Campo (Teeth of the Dog) - There’s one thing at Casa de Campo with a bark as well as a bite and that’s Dye’s Teeth of the Dog.
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Ballyneal - Ballyneal sounds Irish so it’s fitting that this is a links golf course albeit an inland links. Even the address – Holyoke – sounds like a British Open Championship venue.
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Bethpage (Black) - The Bethpage Black course really is as difficult and penal as the high slope rating suggests. It’s not for the faint hearted.
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Highlands Links - Highlands Links golf course is set in one of Canada’s most gorgeous spots and this is where golf and Mother Nature join together in sweet harmony...
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Oak Hill (East) - “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?” Well, according to the top touring pros and the Seven Dwarfs, it’s the Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester.
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Kauri Cliffs - Playing Kauri Cliffs golf course is quite a formidable test and I’m sure I’m not alone in fearing that a mounting tally of lost balls was beginning to detract from the views.
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Muirfield Village - No expense was spared in the construction of Muirfield Village Golf Club, with bold bunkering, water hazards and narrow fairways that require pinpoint tee shots.
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St George's Golf & Country Club - Ontario - With tight twisting fairways and undulating terrain, St George’s is a man and woman-sized test of golf and four times host to the Canadian Open.
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Ganton - This sandy, gently undulating site was once a North Sea inlet. Consequently, Ganton Golf Club has all the characteristics of a links and a heathland course.
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Sunningdale (New) - Taken together, the New and Old courses at Sunningdale Golf Club represent the finest 36 holes of golf in the whole of the British Isles.
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Waterville - Waterville plays on a promontory surrounded by the sea. It’s a stunning, remote location...
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Morfontaine - Morfontaine remains a monument to Tom Simpson’s original design, although Kyle Phillips has recently made some minor changes to the course.
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Royal Troon (Old) - Royal Troon is a traditional out and back links course. On a clear day, you can see the distant Ailsa Craig in the south, and to the west, the majestic mountains on the Isle of Arran.
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Golf Club - The Golf Club is one of Pete Dye’s earliest and most understated creations and the course feels mature way beyond its years.
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Bandon Dunes (Bandon Dunes) - The Bandon Dunes course at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort opened for play in 1999 and it has never looked back. It’s a rugged layout with huge slick greens and immaculate all-round conditioning.
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Los Angeles (North) - The Wilshire location for the Los Angeles Country Club makes it possibly one of the most valuable pieces of real estate in the world.
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Kawana (Fuji) - There are two courses on the Izu Peninsula at the Kawana Resort and the Fuji course is universally considered to be the best.
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Les Bordes - Les Bordes has a slight American feel to it, both in terms of design and conditioning but there is no doubting that you are in France.
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Loch Lomond - Loch Lomond Golf Club is set in more than 600 acres of sheltered seclusion, sandwiched between the mountains and the historic lochside.
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Baltusrol (Lower) - Baltusrol Golf Club takes its name from Mr Baltus Roll who once farmed this land in the 19th century before his untimely murder.
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European Club - The European Club is located in the garden of Ireland, between the coastal towns of Wicklow and Arklow, about 30 miles south of Dublin.
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Diamante (Dunes) - The spectacular dune landscape found on the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula is where American developer Ken Jowdy decided to locate his latest project, Diamante Dunes...
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North Berwick (West) - The West course at North Berwick Golf Club is extremely close to the origins of golf. It’s the third oldest course in the world still playing over its original fairways...
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Sebonack - Sebonack Golf Club opened its tees for play in May 2006 and is the result of collaboration between Tom Doak and Jack Nicklaus.
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Cabo del Sol (Ocean) - Cabo del Sol is an intoxicating mixture of seaside and desert golf. It’s a dream location for a golf course and the design responsibility fell to Jack Nicklaus.
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Garden City - The strict men-only policy of the exclusive Garden City Golf Club puts it in the limelight for all the wrong reasons...
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Wade Hampton - Wade Hampton Golf Club was named after the respected Confederate cavalry leader, General Wade Hampton III, who was also Governor of South Carolina and later US Senator during the 19th century.
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Royal Porthcawl - Royal Porthcawl Golf Club is a convivial, relaxed place to play golf in beautiful surroundings.
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Old Sandwich - "The green complexes are very interesting and include great contouring, and the bunker shaping by Jeff Bradley is excellent. I call him Mr. Sand Man" says Masa Nishijima.
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Royal Aberdeen (Balgownie) - The Balgownie at Royal Aberdeen Golf Club is a traditional out and back links course running along the shore of the North Sea and it has one of the finest first nine holes in golf.
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TPC at Sawgrass (Stadium) - Much has been written about the Stadium course at the Tournament Players Club at Sawgrass and we all know about the signature hole...
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Shadow Creek (North) - Once the preserve of the limited few, Shadow Creek can now be shared. Sculptured by Tom Fazio from the rugged Nevada desert, it’s set in the most breathtaking location.
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Walton Heath (Old) - Walton Heath Golf Club is where links golf meets inland golf. There is no salty whiff of sea air, but the course plays and feels like a seaside links.
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Swinley Forest - Swinley Forest Golf Club is an absolutely charming golf course sited on the famous sand belt, but it’s a club that is frozen in time, exclusive, unusual and eccentric...
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Somerset Hills - Somerset Hills Country Club is an A.W. Tillinghast creation and it’s naturally natural with nothing brash or ostentatious about the course.
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Bandon Dunes (Old Macdonald) - The latest layout to grace the Bandon Dunes property, Old Macdonald, has been built in the architectural spirit of Charles Blair Macdonald and Seth Raynor.
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Royal Liverpool - Without doubt, Royal Liverpool is a tough links. Only a couple of holes are in the dunes – otherwise there is little protection from the ever-changing wind.
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Barnbougle Lost Farm - The 20-hole Barnbougle Lost Farm links opened for play in December 2010 and commentators already think this new golf course is equal to its world-beating neighbour.
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PGA Catalunya (Stadium) - The Stadium course at the PGA Catalunya Resort is the culmination of more than a decade of planning and design by the European Tour. They wanted to build their own Players Championship course to rival the PGA's Sawgrass course.
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Southern Hills - There’s nothing flash about Southern Hills. Mature deciduous trees line many of the Bermuda grass fairways and the rough is notoriously thick and tangly.
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Maidstone - Maidstone is routed across the Gardiner Peninsula, which is one of the finest parcels of golfing ground in the world.
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Valderrama - Most golfers will be familiar with Valderrama from TV coverage. The club has hosted a plethora of championships, including the legendary 1997 Ryder Cup.
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National (Moonah) - The Mornington Peninsula could easily be one long stretch of golf holes and it must have been a challenge for the architects to decide on their routing plan.
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Quaker Ridge - Quaker Ridge Golf Club is perhaps the most underrated golf course in the USA and only those in the know have heard of it.
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Cruden Bay - Cruden Bay Golf Club is inspirational, regarded by some as quirky and considered by others as a masterpiece. Either way, it's a thrilling course...
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Tokyo - You’ll need an invite to play here at Tokyo Golf Club but if you are lucky enough to receive one, take it immediately. This is a world-class golf course that is mature way beyond its years.
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Bandon Dunes (Bandon Trails) - Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw designed Bandon Trails, the third of four courses at the magnificent Bandon Dunes Resort.
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Shoreacres - When you arrive at Shoreacres (after your mandatory invite) you can almost feel a throwback in time to the 1920s as you approach the David Alder clubhouse.
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Castle Stuart - Castle Stuart golf links will offer some serious competition to both Royal Dornoch and Nairn when it comes to attracting visiting golfers to the Highlands...
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Royal Adelaide - Although the sea hasn’t bordered the course at The Royal Adelaide for some 10,000 years, it remains, like Royal Lytham & St Annes, more a links than an inland course.
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Paraparaumu Beach - Host to twelve New Zealand Opens, the first in 1959, Paraparaumu Beach Golf Club is a New Zealand household name.
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Camargo - The Camargo Club is set amidst undulating countryside on the edge of Cincinnati in the State of Ohio. It’s a Seth Raynor jewel which opened for play in 1925.
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Noordwijkse - Noordwijkse is classic links course on undulating linksland with each hole winding its way through the dunes and occasionally, in a Formby-like style, through pine woods.
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Royal Zoute - Belgium's Royal Zoute Golf Club is situated near Knocke sur Mer on the North Sea coast and has been described by Nick Faldo as a "hidden gem".
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Chantilly (Vineuil) - According to the old Big Bopper song, "Chantilly Lace had a pretty face and a wiggle in her walk". Golf de Chantilly is far more than a pretty face; it’s one of Europe’s most glorious courses.
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Bro Hof Slott (Stadium) - Clearly Bro Hof Slott has a very bright future and playing host to the 2010 Scandinavian Masters will do the Stadium course no harm whatsoever.
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Hamburger Falkenstein - Falkenstein is an attractive golf course, which is routed in all directions of the compass. The wooded location provides a genteel oasis to play golf, away from the hustle and bustle of Hamburg’s city centre.
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National (L'Albatros) - 20 miles to the west of Paris at Guyancourt, surrounding the Chateau of Versailles – once home to Louis X1V – lies Golf National's stadium styled Albatros course.
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Fontainebleau - The Ile de France region has more golf courses than anywhere else in the country but they don't come much better than the delightful Golf de Fontainebleau.
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Monte Rei (North) - Set in the picturesque foothills of the Eastern Algarve, with sweeping views of the Serra do Caldeirão mountains to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the south.
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Koninklijke Haagsche - The similarity between this Dutch linksland and that of the British coastline is uncanny. Koninklijke Haagsche Golf & Country Club is an exacting layout which pitches and rolls across undulating land.
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Kennemer - As soon as you arrive at Kennemer Golf & Country Club and you catch a glimpse of the undulating links land and the thatched-roof clubhouse, you know you are somewhere special.
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Barseback (Masters) - Situated on the west coast of Sweden lies the world renowned Barsebäck Golf & Country Club. With two championship courses, there’s no shortage of great golf to be had at Barsebäck.
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Sporting Club Berlin (Faldo) - There are golf holes to spare at the Sporting Club Berlin – 63 in total – but the centrepiece of this golf resort, which is situated in Bad Saarow next to the beautiful Lake Scharmützel, is the Nick Faldo course.
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Lubker (Sand and Sky) - Five years in the making, the Lubker Resort opened to much acclaim by Danish golfers in 2008 and this Robert Trent Jones-designed golf complex is the centrepiece of a 500-acre estate...
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Biella - Golf Club Biella known locally as "Le Betulle" is located in Valcarozza, one of the most evocative and serene spots in northern Italy. The club was founded in 1958 and the English architect John Morrison designed it.
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Oitavos Dunes - Oitavos Dunes is a lovely mix of woodland and links-type holes that have been expertly laid to make the most of the existing landscape.
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Prince de Provence - Vidauban - Founded in 1999 at Vidauban, Prince de Provence is a totally private golf course and it was designed by the full compliment of Robert Trent Joneses.
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Sotogrande - Sotogrande was designed by Robert Trent Jones. It was his first European course, and it is a credit that the par 72, 6,224-metre layout is still enthralling players...
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Lykia Links - The Links course lies within the sprawling Lykia Estate in Turkey’s Antalya region and it’s yet another in a line of fabulous 18-hole layouts to emerge from the Belek tourist area...
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Sperone - Those that make the trip to the lovely island of Corsica to play the famous Spérone course will have one of the most unforgettable golfing experiences of their lives.
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Oceanico (Old) - Oceânico Old is the original and eldest course at Vilamoura but it's also the best. Grand, pine-lined, strategic and in tune with Mother Nature.
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Royal Park I Roveri (Robert Trent Jones) - Robert Trent Jones designed Royal Park I Roveri and it’s his first Italian architectural ensemble, which opened its doors for play in 1971.
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Budersand Sylt - The scale of the challenge at Budersand Sylt is set out at the very first hole on the fringe of the property, played downhill to a fairway that then veers left and up to a green with a sand hill to the right for protection...
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San Lorenzo - San Lorenzo is a world-class golf course, which is set alongside the Atlantic on sandy undulating terrain with fairways bordered by umbrella pines and the marshland bird sanctuary of the Ria Formosa.
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Royal Fagnes - Royal Golf Club des Fagnes was laid out at great expense and it was designed by the flamboyant English architect, Tom Simpson, amongst heather and pine.
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Terre Blanche (Chateau) - Dave Thomas slipped the Château course at Terre Blanche Golf Club onto the Provence landscape like a hand sliding into a silk glove.
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Praia D'El Rey - Praia D’El Rey is "A mix of holes – some in the mighty dunes, others among fragrant pines – that are an assault to the senses. Wild and wonderful"
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Vasatorps (Tournament) - In actual fact, the new Vasatorps Tournament course is not entirely new as it consists of nine remodeled and nine original holes – within a golf complex that now extends to 54 holes...
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Thracian Cliffs - The golf course at Thracian Cliffs Golf & Beach Resort is located on the northern Black Sea Coast of Bulgaria and it’s a Black Knight signature design that opened in 2011.
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Utrecht de Pan - Host to the Dutch Open on numerous occasions, Utrecht de Pan Golf Club is a strategic and exacting layout which requires thought rather than muscle, especially during the homeward nine.
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Domaine Imperial - Pete Dye courses in Europe are very scarce but Domaine Impérial Golf Club is one such rarity and it is one of a select few that were created on the continent by the acclaimed architect in the late 1980s.
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El Saler - Javier Arana designed El Saler and it opened for play in 1968 to a rapturous standing ovation. In fact, shortly afterwards, it was voted the No.1 layout in Continental Europe.
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Scandinavian (Old) - RTJ2’s lead architect Bruce Charlton was entrusted with the job of laying out the fairways at the 36-hole Scandinavian Golf Club and the Old course duly opened in the summer of 2010...
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Kempferhof - The Kempferhof is one of the toughest challenges in the Alsace region. Robert von Hagge designed the course and it opened for play in 1989.
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Las Brisas - Las Brisas was one of the first courses in Europe to use bent grass and the brave decision was quickly rewarded by being chosen as the host venue of the 1973 World Cup of Golf.
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Carya - Thomson Perrett & Lobb, the golf course architecture company founded by five-time Open Champion and Australian golf legend Peter Thomson, designed the course at Carya Golf Club.
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Santander - US architect, Rees Jones, has fashioned Santander into an extremely tough and long course which stretches out to almost 7,500 yards from the back tees. It’s one of Spain’s longest courses...
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Troia - Troia is located to the south of Lisbon a little farther down the coast, and you can reach the club via a lovely short ferry crossing from Setubal to the Peninsula of Troia.
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Fontana - Located to the south of Vienna on the edge of the spa town of Baden lies the prestigious Fontana Golf & Country Club.
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Kytaja (South East) - There is some seriously good golf to be played at Kytaja but the South East course is the best and it is set amidst the most delightful Finnish landscape...
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Royal Belgium (Old) - Royal Golf Club de Belgique, or Ravenstein as it is known, is one of the most important courses in Belgium, founded in 1906 and redesigned by the flamboyant Englishman Tom Simpson...
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Eindhoven - Eindhovensche Golf Club was inaugurated in 1930 and the great Harry S. Colt routed the course through a dense forest a few kilometres to the south of Eindhoven.
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Elea - Elea Golf Club is at the heart of a new, luxury residential development that is set in an idyllic spot, only two kilometres from the Mediterranean Sea and the vibrant town of Paphos.
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Seddiner See (South) - Seddiner See is one of Germany’s great golfing venues and it lies in the heart of the lake district, to the south of Berlin City Centre and it’s reachable by car in about 30 minutes via the autobahn.
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Verdura (West) - A couple of holes on the front nine of the West course at the Verdura Golf Resort skirt an old railway line before the blue waters of the Med are reached at holes 8 and 9…
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Dutch - Opened for members play in May 2011 and known simply as “The Dutch”, this new Colin Montgomerie inland links-styled golf course was at the heart of Holland’s bid to host the 2018 Ryder Cup.
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Gut Larchenhof - The Gut Lärchenhof championship course opened for play in 1997 and, with a Michelin star restaurant and in-house massage facilities, you could easily be in heaven.
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Halmstad (North) - Sweden has some fantastic golf courses and the North course at Halmstad is one of them. It’s a surreal setting where you can smell the salty sea air and you can hear the sea, but you can’t see it.
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St Germain - Host on numerous occasions to the French Open, Saint Germain is a delightful park course, which flows through avenues of majestic trees.
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Cornelia - According to Nick Faldo, Cornelia is routed over "an exceptional piece of land" and who can argue? It's an instant hit with holes routed through pines and across naturally sandy ground.
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Medoc (Chateaux) - Golf du Médoc is located to the north of Bordeaux, which everyone knows, or ought to know, is the world capital of wine and the Chateaux course is Bill Coore's 3rd solo design.
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La Reserva - Cabell Robinson designed La Reserva and it’s a brutal 6,700 metres from the tips but with wide fairways and a hot driver it can be tamed.
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Real Sociedad Hipica Espanola Club de Campo (North) - Designed by Robert von Hagge and opened for play in 1997, the North course at Real Sociedad Hípica Española Club de Campo is one of Spain’s best courses.
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Castelconturbia (Blue & Yellow) - Designed by Robert Trent Jones, Castelconturbia Golf Club opened for play in 1984 to a standing ovation. It’s located about one hour’s drive to the north of Milan and it has bags of Italian style.
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Seignosse - A couple of kilometres inland from the Bay of Biscay lies one of France’s most beautiful and most challenging courses. Hidden in the forest amongst the Cork Oak and pine lies the stunning Seignosse.
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Frankfurter - Frankfurter Golf Club was a once a regular German Open venue and this historical layout was designed by the great Harry Colt in 1913.
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Le Touquet (La Mer) - Le Touquet's stunning sea course, La Mer, is one of Colt’s greatest achievements. It’s a classic links course that winds its way between the coastal dunes and rough grasses.
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Real Puerta de Hierro (Arriba) - The Arriba course at Real Club de la Puerta de Hierro is one of the oldest courses in Spain and it’s also one of the most private and exclusive.
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Adamstal - Adamstal is one of the world's most beautiful golf courses and it's certainly one of Austria's very best.
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Koln - Founded in 1906, Köln Golf Club is one of Germany’s oldest courses and is routed through the dense forest at Refrath.
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Villa d'Este - Peter Gannon cut Villa d’Este through a pine, ash and chestnut forest back in 1926 and this former Italian Open venue is still as stylish today as it was back then.
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Barbaroux - If you like variation, entertainment and interesting holes, Barbaroux is the course for you. Nobody could ever accuse it of being boring.
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Visby - Visby at Kronholmen celebrated the first fifty years of club history in 2008 and this remains an extremely popular European golf course.
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Finca Cortesin - Finca Cortesin is set a short distance inland from the Mediterranean and has been routed through a dramatic valley. It's one of Europe’s longest layouts and will soon become a household name.
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Quinta de Cima - American-styled golf here in Portugal. Only the very best golfers will score well - this is tough.
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Joyenval (Marly) - The Marly course at Joyenval is a classic Trent Jones design with plenty of bunkers and large undulating greens.
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Falsterbo - Falsterbo is one of the few true classic links courses in Continental Europe. It’s located at the southernmost tip of Sweden on the scenic Falsterbo peninsula, where the Öresund and the Baltic meet.
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Torino (Blue) - John Morrison designed the original Torino course and a number of holes were renovated by the Canadian architect Graham Cook in preparation for the 1999 Italian Open, won by Padraig Harrington.
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zur Vahr Bremen (Garlstedter Heide) - At the Club zur Vahr nestles one of Germany’s original and best courses. Carved through a pine forest the course is now called Garlstedter Heide and it’s even better after its 2004 facelift.
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Real Puerta de Hierro (Abajo) - Real Club de la Puerta de Hierro is one of the most private golf clubs in Spain. The Arriba is one of Spain’s oldest courses but the Abajo, on the other hand, is much younger.
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Rosendaelsche - Rosendaelsche Golf Club is one of the oldest clubs in the Netherlands (formed in 1895) and is heathland golf at its very best, played over gently undulating forested terrain.
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Gut Altentann - Gut Altentann is the Austrian course that Jack built and it’s set on the outskirts of Mozart’s hometown, Salzburg.
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Royal Antwerp - Royal Antwerp was inaugurated in 1888 and it’s the oldest golf club in Belgium. It’s also one of continental Europe’s masterpieces.
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Sporting Club Berlin (Palmer) - Arnold Palmer laid out the first course at the Berlin Sporting Club back in 1995 and it’s a cracker and probably the course you’ll want to limber up on first.
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Real Sevilla - Real Club de Golf de Sevilla opened for play in 1991 and in 2004 it was the host venue for the World Golf Championships (formerly the World Cup of Golf).
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Sueno (Pines) - The Pines course at Sueno Golf Club is an excellent addition to Turkey’s burgeoning portfolio of top-notch golf courses and it has elevated the Belek region to a new level.
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Holstebro (Skovbanen) - Holstebro Golf Club represents an honest challenge and, in the crisp and clear Danish air, there can be few more pleasant places to be.
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St Nom-la-Breteche (Rouge) - Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche was the long term venue for the Trophée Lancôme, which was played on a composite layout of the Red and Blue courses.
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Le Querce - To the northwest of Rome lies the beautiful Le Querce Golf Club, set in 60 hectares of delightful undulating land. With fairways flanked by stately oaks it's not surprising to note that the club is called “The Oaks” in English.
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Ljunghusen (Yellow & Red) - Ljunghusen dates back to 1932 and there are 27 holes to be sampled here on the unique maritime heath of the Falsterbo Peninsula.
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Hossegor - Hossegor is the perfect venue for golf and it is reminiscent of the sparkling heathland courses, which are in abundance to the west of London.
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PGA of Sweden National (Lakes) - The number of bunkers on the Lakes course averages four per hole, the same as the Links course, but the traps on the Lakes occupy an area three times that of the other course at the PGA of Sweden National.
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Schloss Schonborn - The 27-hole Schloss Schönborn complex is set in the heart of the Austrian wine region and it has the most impressive manor house 19th.
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Son Gual - Thomas Himmel's design is captivating and with bent grass from tee to green the whole Son Gual experience is polished to absolute perfection.
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Furnas - You’ll need to fly into the middle of the Atlantic to the Azorean island of San Miguel to find Furnas but to play this course only once is worth the trip alone.
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Sand - After a long search for land by architects Arthur Hills and Steve Forrest, they finally selected an old potato farm just outside Jönköping for Sand Golf Club.
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El Prat (Open) - The Open course at Real Club de Golf El Prat measures around 7,000 yards from the medal tees with a par of 72. Fairways are generally wide and greens are large with subtle borrows.
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Porto Santo - Porto Santo is set to become a must-visit island because the flamboyant Spanish maestro Seve Ballesteros fashioned a must-play ocean-side course
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Esbjerg (Marbaek) - On the edge of the Marbaek Forest, amongst stands of pine, spruce and larch lies the 42-hole Esbjerg Golf Club and one of Scandinavia’s best courses is the Marbaek.
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Linna - Linna golf course opened for play in 2005 and it’s routed through a pine and birch forest adjacent to the famous and historic Vanajan Linna Hotel.
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Abama - With Atlantic Ocean views across to the island of La Gomera and a thrilling collection of holes, Abama is a new European course destined for success.
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Emporda (Links) - The Green was the first nine to open at Emporda Golf Resort and this has been combined with the Red – the most recent nine – to form the new Links course.
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Hardelot (Les Pins) - Close to the Edwardian seaside resort of Hardelot in the Pas de Calais northern region of France lies the beautiful golf course, Les Pins. It's set amongst the dunes and a glorious pine forest.
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Moliets - Moliets is set in amongst the pines of Landes in a thoroughly agreeable and most natural setting.
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Antalya (PGA Sultan) - Carved through a forest of eucalyptus and pine, the PGA Sultan course is one of Europe’s best new courses and it’s attached to one of Turkey’s finest resorts.
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Keilir - The Kelir clubhouse commands spectacular views out over the Atlantic Ocean across the bay to "Snaefellsjokull" the glacier where Jules Verne’s "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" took place.
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Kytaja (North West) - Already hailed as one of the best Scandinavian golf facilities, the Kytäjä facility, and the North West in particular, can only improve as it matures.
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Saunton (East) - If there is a need for another seaside Open Championship venue, then surely the East course at Saunton Golf Club is a worthy candidate.
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Wentworth (West) - Wentworth's West course is the most televised course in the UK, hosting three professional tournaments every year...
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Royal West Norfolk - Check the tide times before you plan your trip to Royal West Norfolk Golf Club, the course plays on a narrow strip of links-land which gets cut off at high tide, turning it into an island.
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Nairn (Championship) - The Championship links at Nairn Golf Club is one of the most spectacular seaside courses in Scotland, boasting sea views from every hole.
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St George's Hill (Red & Blue) - The spectacular golfing panorama from the front of the St George's Hill clubhouse is a view that grabs you and makes your heart pound...
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Gleneagles (King's) - Gleneagles is the perfect setting for a game of golf and the King’s course is surely the best moorland track in the world.
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Western Gailes - The holes at Western Gailes Golf Club are wonderfully varied. The fairways undulate gently, interrupted occasionally by three meandering burns...
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Notts - “After being too long away I lately went back to Hollinwell, which, as all the golfing world knows, or ought to know, is the course of the Notts Golf Club.”
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Machrihanish (Championship) - Machrihanish Golf Club must be one of the most natural, romantic and enjoyable places to play golf in the whole of the British Isles. It’s not long, but it's sheer fun...
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Prestwick - The course at Prestwick Golf Club is a traditional monument, an authentic affair with a layout of holes that snake to and fro through rugged dunes and rippled fairways.
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St Enodoc (Church) - St Enodoc Golf Club is certainly a quixotic and rather hilly links course, set amidst towering sand dunes clad with tufts of wild sea grasses.
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County Sligo (Championship) - County Sligo Golf Club – or Rosses Point, as it is better known – is an exhilarating west coast links, situated in the heart of Yeats country.
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Burnham & Berrow (Championship) - Burnham & Berrow Golf Club has played host to many important amateur championships over the years and the course is regularly used for Open Championship qualification.
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Royal Cinque Ports - Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club, or Deal as it is somtimes called, is an absolute brute of a links course. Its back nine, or rather the last seven holes, are relentless...
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Tralee - At Tralee Golf Club, Palmer has designed a golf course that will stimulate the senses every bit as much as the enchanting and breathtaking scenery.
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Royal St David's - The glorious setting for Royal St David’s Golf Club is nothing short of beautiful and romantic. The forbidding medieval Harlech castle and towering sand dunes guard the course.
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Formby - Set in 470 acres on a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), Formby Golf Club is one of the few places left in England where you might catch a glimpse of the native Red Squirrel.
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County Louth - The approach road to the links of County Louth Golf Club, or Baltray as it is better known, named after the local fishing village, is especially uplifting.
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Rye (Old) - So, we’ve arrived at Rye Golf Club, but will we get a game? Rye is so very private, that it is exceedingly difficult to secure a tee time, it's easier to get a game on the Old course at St Andrews.
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Hillside - Hillside Golf Club is an underrated gem, separated only by a footpath, but hiding in the shadow of its noble next-door neighbour, Royal Birkdale.
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Ballyliffin (Glashedy) - Ballyliffin Golf Club is often described as “the Ballybunion of the North” or “the Dornoch of Ireland” and the reason is simple; all the aforementioned are set amidst towering natural sand dunes.
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Alwoodley - Alwoodley is one of the finest and most subtle inland courses in the British Isles, located in a secluded spot.
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Rosapenna (Sandy Hills) - Rosapenna's fabulous new Sandy Hills golf course was designed by Pat Ruddy and opened for play in July 2003.
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Silloth on Solway - It’s well worth the time (and the money) to get to Silloth on Solway Golf Club and once you get here, you won’t want to leave...
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West Sussex - West Sussex Golf Club is one of our favourite inland courses. It is sheer delight to play golf on this charming sandy outcrop of heathland.
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Berkshire (Red) - Many people say that there is nothing better than a day’s golf amongst the forest, heather and springy turf of the Berkshire Golf Club.
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Queenwood - Queenwood Golf Club, in a similar mould to Loch Lomond and the Wisley, is reserved for its small but perfectly formed membership and their very lucky friends.
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St Andrews (Castle) - The Castle course is the newest member of St Andrews Links Trust’s portfolio and may be seen by some as the black sheep of the family due to its unnatural links character...
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Hunstanton - Hunstanton Golf Club is a connoisseur’s golf course, jammed full of memorable quality golf holes.
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Enniscrone (Dunes) - The location is ravishing; Enniscrone Golf Club is set on a promontory, which juts out into Killala Bay at the mouth of the Moy Estuary.
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Doonbeg - Doonbeg Golf Club is the course that Greg Norman built - his one and only architectural ensemble in the whole of the British Isles.
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Gullane (No.1) - Gullane Golf Club is blessed with the most exquisite turf – winter rules are not needed here. If you hit the No.1 course fairways, a perfect lie awaits, even in the depths of winter.
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Walton Heath (New) - Both courses at Walton Heath Golf Club are intertwined and have a very similar look and feel. The Old is tougher, although the New is a demanding course with memorable holes of great variety.
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Island - The Island Golf Club is a no-frills golf course. There is nothing manicured and it’s all very harmonious and in tune with its surroundings.
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Carne - The Carne Golf Links at Belmullet is the late Eddie Hackett’s swan song and many reckon it’s his finest golf course design.
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Blairgowrie (Rosemount) - The Rosemount course at Blairgowrie Golf Club is charmingly situated at the feet of the Grampians, amongst the majestic pines, birch and heather.
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Aberdovey - Aberdovey Golf Club is set enchantingly within the Snowdonia National Park at the mouth of the Dovey Estuary...
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Dundonald - Owned by Loch Lomond Golf Club, Dundonald is their newest addition. Kyle Phillips designed this natural links course and it's destined for life in the Top 100.
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Berkshire (Blue) - Herbert Fowler was the Berkshire Golf Club’s architect and the Blue course opened for play in 1928...
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Pennard - Pennard is a delightful old-fashioned affair and without doubt, this is one of the very best links courses in the British Isles.
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Addington - The Addington Golf Club is a natural inland golfing paradise, with plenty of heather, pine, bracken and silver birch. Very little has changed since the club was founded in 1914.
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St Andrews (New) - Situated adjacent to the Old course, the New course at St Andrews is often referred to as the local’s favourite because it is tighter and more defined than the Old.
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Machrie - Machrie is a wonderfully nostalgic links golf course located on the beautiful Hebridean island of Islay, famous for its distilleries and the fabulous rich and “peaty” single malt whisky such as Laphroaig and Bruichladdich.
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Trevose (Championship) - With dramatic views across the golden sandy shore of Boobys Bay to the rugged coastline, Trevose Golf & Country Club is sheer drama.
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Belfry (Brabazon) - The Brabazon course at The Belfry doesn’t need introducing. This course has played host to more Ryder Cups than any other course on the planet – four in total.
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Adare Manor - Undoubtedly Adare Manor is a dashing, stylish golf resort, with an excellent championship course attached – one of the best inland tracks in Ireland.
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Worplesdon - Worplesdon Golf Club is one of the prettiest and most delightful of Surrey’s many heath and heather courses...
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Mount Juliet - The course at Mount Juliet is set in lush, rolling parkland, part of a 1,500 acres old Irish country estate with an 18th century mansion as the clubhouse...
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Druids Glen - Druids Glen is the kaleidoscope of golf courses, for there is more colour here than at any other course in Ireland.
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Old Head - Laid out on a narrow headland, jutting out for two miles into the Atlantic Ocean, Old Head Golf Links has to be one of the world’s most exhilarating golf courses...
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Portstewart (Strand) - The Strand course at Portstewart Golf Club is exhilarating. Set amidst imposing, gigantic sand dunes with panoramic views across the Atlantic mouth of Lough Foyle to the Inishowen peninsula beyond.
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Hankley Common - There is an overwhelming feeling of spaciousness at Hankley Common, so much so that it seems plausible that a second or third course could be intertwined between the existing 18 holes.
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Woburn (Marquess) - The addition of the new Marquess course at Woburn Golf Club puts Woburn in a unique position, standing out on its own as the only venue in England to have three featured courses in the Top 100.
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Chart Hills - Chart Hills Golf Club is set in the peaceful rural heart of the Garden of England where old oak trees stand guard and where there is sand, lots and lots of sand.
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Machrihanish Dunes - The 392-yard 1st hole sets the tone for the round at Machrihanish Dunes golf course... a blind approach to a hidden punchbowl green will be the first of many such shots to be played during the round.
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West Hill - If it’s charm that you are looking for, then you need look no further than West Hill Golf Club. This is a truly delightful golf course.
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Woking - There is absolutely no doubt that Woking Golf Club is located in an idyllic spot and the unusual pavilion clubhouse only adds to the charisma.
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Gleneagles (Queen's) - The Queen’s course is the pretty little sister at Gleneagles. She’s only short course but she's exquisitely delicate and stunningly beautiful.
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Little Aston - Little Aston Golf Club is hidden away on the edge of exclusive suburbia in acres of tranquil, mature parkland. The former grounds of Little Aston Hall.
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Celtic Manor (Twenty Ten) - Twenty Ten is the first course built specifically for the Ryder Cup and is the result of collaboration between the PGA, architects and tour pros...
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Lindrick - Lindrick Golf Club is remembered passionately because it was here in 1957 that Great Britain and Ireland beat the USA to win the Ryder Cup.
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Panmure - There is a gentle beginning on Panmure Golf Club's Open Qualifying course before it opens up beyond the pine forest.
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Wentworth (East) - Wentworth West is the course that everybody rushes to play, but the East is more enjoyable for the average player. It is also more sandy, intimate and charming.
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Woburn (Duke's) - With fairways flanked by stately pine, birch and chestnut trees, the Duke’s at Woburn Golf Club is an intimate golf course. Each hole is played in splendid isolation.
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Bearwood Lakes - Bearwood Lakes is an oasis of calm and beauty with dramatic views of the whole Bearwood Estate. An exclusive golf club which appears mature beyond its age.
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Duke's St Andrews - The Duke’s is the course belonging to the famous Old Course Hotel and it’s the only non-links course in St Andrews.
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Lough Erne - Designed by Nick Faldo, the Lough Erne championship course extends to just over 7,000 yards from the back tees and it lies at the heart of an upmarket development...
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Donegal - The Murvagh peninsula jutting out into Donegal Bay is the home of Donegal Golf Club. It’s an enchanting and isolated setting for a big links course.
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New Zealand - Founded in 1895 and designed by Samuel “Mure” Fergusson, New Zealand Golf Club is a top-class course located within the famous Surrey heath belt.
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Broadstone - Broadstone Golf Club is laid out on glorious rolling terrain. The elevated homeward nine provides panoramic views of the Purbeck Hills and Poole Harbour.
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Castletown - Castletown Golf Club is located at the southeastern tip of the Isle of Man on a triangular links headland which is bordered on three sides by the Irish Sea.
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Southerness - Southerness Golf Club is set on the edge of a remote headland on the peaceful Solway coast and is virtually unknown by the golfing masses.
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Ladybank - Ladybank Golf Club is one of those courses that really should be a Top 100 regular, because it is one of Scotland’s very best inland courses.
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Brora - Brora Golf Club is a fine, natural seaside links. A Highland delicacy to be tasted alongside Royal Dornoch. One of the jewels in James Braid's crown.
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Montrose (Medal) - Did you know that the ancient links at Montrose is the fifth oldest golf course in the world? It has simply been overlooked because its neighbour, the mighty Carnoustie, has overshadowed it.
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Moray (Old) - The Old course at Moray Golf Club is a traditional treasure - a links which starts and ends in the town. The closing hole is one of the finest in the British Isles.
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Spey Valley - The golf course at Spey Valley has an old fashioned out and back routing and water comes into play along the way on several occasions.
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Skibo Castle - Carnegie Club - The Carnegie Club is located on the edge of the beautiful Dornoch Firth with views of the Struie Hills, the 7500-acre Skibo Castle estate is something very special. It’s a place where fairytales meet reality.
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Renaissance Club - The Renaissance Club opened in April 2008 with future tournament golf in mind and it's Tom Doak's first Scottish course design.
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Archerfield (Fidra) - Situated between Gullane and North Berwick, the Fidra course at Archerfield Links has a contrasting mix of pine-flanked and traditional styled links holes.
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Boat of Garten - Make no mistake – this is exciting golf. The lovely course at the Boat of Garten Golf Club wends its way, up and down, through heather, whin, pine and birch.
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Lundin - Lundin Golf Club has a bit of everything: burns, blind drives, out-of-bounds, a nimiety of bunkers (many of which are deep and punishing), the ever-present wind and truly excellent greens.
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Downfield - On the outskirts of Dundee, lies Downfield Golf Club, a stunning parkland course little known outside Scotland.
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Dunbar - The course at Dunbar Golf Club is laid out on a narrow strip of land with the best holes hugging the rocky coastline affording resplendent views across the North Sea to Bass Rock, a huge volcanic lump rising up out of the water.
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Glasgow (Gailes) - Glasgow Gailes is a classic golf links. “The turf is something softer – at least in my imagination – than that of the East Coast courses,” wrote Darwin, “and the greens are wonderfully green and velvety.”
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Turnberry (Kintyre) - The exhilarating Kintyre course re-opened for play in 2001. This Donald Steel layout is a complete redesign of Turnberry’s old Arran course.
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Monifieth (Medal) - There are two golf courses at Monifieth but it's the Medal course that's used as an Open qualifying venue when the Open is played at nearby Carnoustie.
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Archerfield (Dirleton) - Compared to the Fidra, the Dirleton course at Archerfield is a more traditional Scottish links with deep pot bunkers and sand dunes flanking each fairway.
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Murcar Links - Murcar Links Golf Club is located on a classic stretch of links land with huge sand dunes, crumpled fairways, whins, burns and heather.
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Leven Links - Leven Links Golf Course measures a modest 6,506 yards from the medal tees against a par of 71, but the wind often laughs in the face of the yardage figures.
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Gleneagles (PGA Centenary) - From the back tees, the PGA Centenary at Gleneagles is the longest inland course in Scotland. It's also the venue for the 2014 Ryder Cup.
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Gullane (No.2) - Many prefer the No.2 at Gullane Golf Club to No.1 - it's a course of great variety and challenge...it was used for Open Championship Qualifying in 1980.
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Scotscraig - Scotscraig Golf Club is situated close to the sea, but it's more heathland in character than links. The course plays over undulating terrain and is used for Open Qualifying when the Open is at St Andrews.
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Roxburghe - Located in the heart of the Scottish Borders, the Roxburghe golf course is set within a 50,000-acre estate, owned by the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe.
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Kilmarnock (Barassie) - Kilmarnock (Barassie) is a classic golf links, used for Open Championship Final Qualifying when the Open comes to the Ayrshire coast.
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Crail (Balcomie) - The Balcomie Links is the relatively modern home of the Crail Golfing Society, the seventh oldest golf club in the world, which was formed in 1786.
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St Andrews (Torrance) - Designed by Denis Griffiths with the late golfing legend Gene Sarazen and evergreen Scottish senior Sam Torrance as the headline grabbers, the Torrance course at Fairmont St Andrews sweeps dramatically down to the coastline.
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St Andrews (Jubilee) - The Jubilee’s raised tees provide unparalleled views across St Andrews Bay to the east and the fluttering flags on the other St Andrews golf courses to the west.
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Dalmahoy (East) - Dalmahoy's East golf course was designed by the great James Braid, and it’s set amongst 1,000 acres of rolling, wooded parkland.
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West Kilbride - West Kilbride Golf Club really gets the pulse racing around the turn with a nice loop of holes.
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Tain - Overlooking the Dornoch Firth, Tain Golf Club arguably offers one of the best settings imaginable in the highlands for a round of golf. With sea on one side and the backdrop of the mountains behind.
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Carrick - The Carrick is the latest golfing facility to be added to the De Vere Deluxe Resort at Cameron House, Loch Lomond.
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Fraserburgh (Corbie Hill) - Fraserburgh Golf Club was founded in 1777 with the present course opening in 1891 and redesigned by James Braid in 1922.
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Irvine - Irvine Golf Club represents a tough test of golf. It's a classic traditional links course and plays host to Open Championship Final Qualifying...
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Kilspindie - Although it's not long, Kilspindie Golf Club is everything that links golf should be. Step back in time and enjoy this true gem.
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Letham Grange (Old) - If you're fed up slogging your way round the windy links courses, treat yourself to a scenic and tranquil piece of Letham Grange Golf Club.
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Belleisle - Ayr Belleisle is one of the best public courses in Scotland... designed by the great James Braid.
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Lanark - Founded in 1851, Lanark is the world’s 25th oldest golf club and the Royal Burgh has owned this common moorland since the 12th century.
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Fortrose & Rosemarkie - Fortrose & Rosemarkie Golf Club lies north of Inverness on a narrow peninsula which juts out into Rosemarkie Bay...
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Glen - Glorious coastal views complement the delightful North Berwick East Links - Glen Golf Club is a true gem.
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Elie - The Golf House Club at Elie is where the great James Braid cut his golfing teeth. If you want to play an exciting but challenging historic links course, then look no further.
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Nairn Dunbar - Situated on the shores of the Moray Firth, Nairn Dunbar Golf Club is a classic course, steeped in history.
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Golspie - Golspie Golf Club is a vintage seaside course with a varied and enjoyable mix of links, heathland and parkland holes.
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Longniddry - With four of the very best golf course architects having left their distinguished marks on Longniddry Golf Club, it is a rather special place to play golf.
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Luffness New - Luffness New Golf Club is the custodian of probably the oldest “new” golf course in the world.
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St Andrews (Kittocks) - The Kittocks (previously known as the Devlin) is young, but it will grow into a classic. Sweeping alongside the rugged coastline - the views across St Andrews Bay towards the "auld grey toon" are sure to hold your attention.
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Blairgowrie (Lansdowne) - The Lansdowne course at Blairgowrie Golf Club is routed through swathes of pine and silver birch trees which put a premium on accuracy off the tee.
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Meldrum House - Meldrum House Golf Club is a beautiful parkland layout measuring a little less than 6,400 yards from the back markers...
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Duff House Royal - Duff House Royal Golf Club is a beautiful parkland course with large double–tiered greens (Alister MacKenzie design features) and well positioned bunkers...
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Portpatrick (Dunskey) - Although the ground is rolling moorland and seaside heathland in nature, the Dunskey course at Portpatrick Golf Club also has a very links-like feel to it.
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East Renfrewshire - The East Renfrewshire Golf Club, or ‘East Ren’ as it is known was established in 1922 and the great James Braid designed the course.
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Stranraer - Situated on an escarpment beside Loch Ryan, Stranraer Golf Club is laid out on former farmland with many stands of mature trees.
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Craigielaw - Craigielaw Golf Club has blended so well into the landscape, you would be hard pressed to know that it was anything less than a century old.
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Royal Burgess - Known as the Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh since 1929, the club proudly takes their role in the history and tradition of golf very seriously...
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Newmachar (Hawkshill) - Newmachar is one of the most progressive golf clubs in this area of Scotland, boasting two exceptional 18-hole courses, Swailend and Hawkshill...
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Kilmacolm - The Kilmacolm Golf Club has been called “the finest village golf club in the country” by a former club captain and “a very pleasant golfing place” by none other than Walter Hagen...
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Royal Musselburgh - Founded in 1774, Royal Musselburgh is one of the oldest golf clubs in the world. The baronial clubhouse contains plenty of interesting golfing memorabilia.
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Musselburgh - Five-time Open champion James Braid designed the Musselburgh Golf Club course at Monktonhall and he, along with Percy Alliss, Henry Cotton and Alf Padgham officially opened the course with a 4-ball match in 1938.
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Bruntsfield Links - The Bruntsfield Links Golfing Society dates back to 1761... but the current parkland course is relatively young, dating back to 1897.
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Auchterarder - Situated next door to the PGA Centenary course at Gleneagles, Auchterarder Golf Club’s 18- hole moorland layout was extended from a 9-hole course in 1979.
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Prestwick St Nicholas - Prestwick St Nicholas Golf Club is a traditional links course with commanding views across the Firth of Clyde to the Isle of Arran.
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Mortonhall - Mortonhall Golf Club is rightly regarded as one of the best parkland courses in the Lothians with many holes characterised by mature trees that define wide, open fairways, leading to large, beautifully tended greens.
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Glasgow (Killermont) - Old Tom Morris designed the Killermont course at Glasgow Golf Club on the north side of the River Kelvin and the Lord Provost of Glasgow officially opened the undulating parkland layout in 1904.
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Duddingston - Duddingston Golf Club is well respected in the Lothians as one of the county's best with a run of demanding par fours from the 11th to the 13th holes.
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Crail (Craighead) - It’s a mystery as to why the Craighead course at Crail has not featured in any golf course ranking tables since it came into play in 1999...
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Forfar - The links-like undulations of many fairways at Forfar Golf Club are a mystery to visitors as the course is more than ten miles from the coast.
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Shiskine - Shiskine Golf Club is one of the most unusual courses featured on this website, a links that has reached true cult status.
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Rowallan Castle - Rowallan Castle Golf Club is laid out within an historic estate with fairways draped across a gently undulating landscape that incorporates open meadow, wetland and woodland sites.
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Pitlochry - If you can survive the climb up the first few holes at Pitlochry Golf Club, then the views are quite possibly the most breathtaking in golf.
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Inverness - Inverness Golf Club is a parkland course that has been used in the past to hold the Northern Open for Scottish golf professionals.
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Peterhead (Old) - Butch Harmon declared to those members present when he visited the golf club in 2005 that Peterhead Old course was a "hidden gem" which he really enjoyed playing.
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Powfoot - Powfoot Golf Club was founded in 1903 and the majority of the layout weaves its way beside the Solway Firth and across undulating links land with the last four holes taking on a more park-like appearance.
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Newburgh-on-Ythan - Additional land on higher ground was acquired in 1994, allowing Newburgh-on-Ythan Golf Club to form a new front nine – a round at Newburgh is now a game of two contrasting halves.
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Earl of Mar - With an overall length of no more than 6,507 yards from the back tees, the Earl of Mar golf course appeals to the strategically minded golfer...
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Royal North Devon - Royal North Devon Golf Club, or should we say Westward Ho! This nostalgic and monumental links course fits firmly into the “must-play” category.
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St Mellion (Nicklaus) - St Mellion is located in the Tamar Valley, on what was once rolling farmland. Bodmin Moor is not too far away but you need look no further – the beast is the Nicklaus course.
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Moortown - Moortown Golf Club is classic moorland golf course with lovely peaty turf that provides the bouncy cushion-effect when walking, a course that is gentle on the feet.
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Southport & Ainsdale - Southport & Ainsdale Golf Club is a relative youngster and it is set amongst exhilarating dunes and tangly heather.
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Sherwood Forest - Sherwood Forest Golf Club is set on a Site of Special Scientific Interest because it contains the largest area of low-lying heathland in the Midlands.
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West Lancashire - Its esteemed Royal neighbours keep West Lancashire Golf Club out of the limelight but it is a truly classical links course, located on a charming stretch of prime links land.
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Remedy Oak - Remedy Oak Golf Club opened for play in November 2005 and former Englishman and Ryder Cup Captain John Jacobs designed the golf course, which is set in more than 250 acres of ancient woodland...
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Aldeburgh - Play Aldeburgh Golf Club between May and late June and you will be presented with narrow fairways weaving their way between bright yellow gorse.
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Liphook - Liphook Golf Club is as pretty as a picture. A delightful, classic heathland course for the connoisseur, not for the dilettante.
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Royal Ashdown Forest (Old) - Royal Ashdown Forest Golf Club is set stunningly, affording fantastic views from the high parts of the course across the forest and the rolling Sussex countryside.
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Delamere Forest - Delamere Forest Golf Club is a delightful Herbert Fowler designed course. Fowler made full use of the natural, undulating heathland.
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Parkstone - We’ve classified Parkstone Golf Club as a seaside heathland course. It’s not a traditional links and neither is it very far inland.
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Seacroft - The course begins in pleasant suburbia and immediately the scene is set – accurate driving is the order of the day at Seacroft Golf Club.
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Goodwood (Downs) - The original Goodwood downland golf course was designed by James Braid. It now measures 7,100 yards but you'll need to befriend a member to play here.
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East Devon - East Devon Golf Club is absolutely enchanting, the course is laid out on high ground, 400 feet above the sea, close to the clifftops, where one can drink in the most spectacular views in golf.
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Hayling - Hayling is set upon a Site of Special Scientific Interest, on the South West peninsular of Hayling Island.
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Ashridge - The enchanting Ashridge Golf Club is set amongst thousands of acres of National Trust-owned woodland. The scene is set as you drive to the clubhouse.
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Stoke Park (Colt & Alison) - Stoke Park is surely one of the finest parkland golf courses in the South of England. With no heather here, the main line of defence is the abundance of huge stately trees and Colt’s clever design.
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Grove - Kyle Philips has done a neat job, using the natural contours of the land in an understated way to create The Grove...a discerning golf course.
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Prince's (Shore & Dunes) - In 1932, Prince’s Golf Club proudly hosted its first and only Open Championship. "The Squire", Gene Sarazen, was the eventual winner.
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Isle of Purbeck (Purbeck) - The vista from the Isle of Purbeck golf course is breathtaking, for the club is positioned on a high heathland plateau and the 360-degree panorama continually interrupts one’s concentration of the game at hand.
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Beau Desert - One of the many treats at Beau Desert Golf Club is that you play most holes in splendid isolation; you can lose yourself in the trees here. Additionally, the holes are varied and memorable.
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Hindhead - The front nine at Hindhead Golf Club is laid out through heather strewn Ice Age valleys and the back nine plays on a heathland plateau.
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Seaton Carew - There are now 22 holes at Seaton Carew Golf Club - the members now have a number of playing options.
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Slaley Hall (Hunting) - Dave Thomas is renowned for designing unique and interesting holes and he’s done himself proud at Slaley Hall. His bunkering design on the Hunting course is masterful.
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Perranporth - Perranporth Golf Club is probably the most underrated links course in the South West of England. The stunning views are worthy of the excellent value green fee alone.
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Saunton (West) - The West is the second course at Saunton Golf Club and was originally laid out in the mid-1930s. It’s shorter than its older sister but, nonetheless, the West represents a challenge.
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Ipswich (Main) - The Ipswich Golf Club at Purdis Heath compares favourably with any inland course in the British Isles, it's a James Braid classic.
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Wisley (Church & Mill) - Concealed behind the RHS gardens at Wisley lies one of the most delightful private golf clubs in the British Isles... the Wisley.
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Wallasey - Wallasey Golf Club, world famous as the "Home of Stableford". An undiluted links course with it's undulating fairways framed with spectacular dunes.
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Buckinghamshire - The elegant Buckinghamshire opened for play in 1992 and it’s set in more than 200 acres of mature parkland.
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Littlestone - Littlestone Golf Club is a hidden gem, overshadowed by the other famous links courses in the area: Rye, Royal St George’s and Royal Cinque Ports.
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Ferndown (Old) - Ferndown Golf Club plays across a sandy outcrop of land where there is a proliferation of heather and pines... it’s an inherently pretty golf course.
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Sheringham - Sheringham Golf Club is located high on the clifftops on an undulating thin sliver of land, which is wedged between the North Sea cliff edge and the North Norfolk Railway.
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Berwick-upon-Tweed - Founded in 1890 on land named Goswick (Goose Farm) by the Romans, Berwick-upon-Tweed Golf Club boasts views of the North Sea and to the south, Holy Island and Bamburgh Castle.
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East Sussex National (West) - The West course is considered to be the more intimate, and the prettier of the two courses at the East Sussex National golf complex.
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Blackmoor - Blackmoor Golf Club is sandwiched between the North and South Downs at the western end of the glorious sand belt, which cuts swathe through Surrey, Berkshire and Hampshire.
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Wentworth (Edinburgh) - We think that the Wentworth Club is the best 54-hole golfing destination in the whole of Britain.
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Fulford - Fulford Golf Club will always be remembered for the tree-climbing exploits of Bernhard Langer in the 1981 Benson & Hedges International.
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East Berkshire - East Berkshire Golf Club has an abundance of heather and pine, it's an unsung hero. Many compare it to the famous Red and Blue courses at the Berkshire.
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Woburn (Duchess) - The Duchess course fits into the Woburn Golf Club family exceptionally well – it’s a real gem... as good, if not better, than the Duke’s and the Marquess.
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London Club (Heritage) - With wide generous fairways, the Heritage course at the London Golf Club tempts you to reach for the driver on many tees...
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Oxfordshire - If you like tradition, then steer clear of the Oxfordshire Golf Club. If you are seeking excitement, this might be the course for you.
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Forest of Arden (Arden) - Despite the fact that the Arden is a modern golf course, Steel has blended the layout nicely into the natural landscape here at the Forest of Arden
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Blackwell - Six times an Open Championship Regional Qualifying course, Blackwell Golf Club is the quintessential English gem and has a proud history dating back to 1893.
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Brocket Hall (Palmerston) - With two courses, Brocket Hall Golf Club has 36 of the finest inland holes in England, but many believe the Palmerston is the best.
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Moor Park (High) - Moor Park Golf Club oozes quality. The High is a classy golf course and a warm welcome awaits in the spectacular clubhouse mansion.
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Fairhaven - Fairhaven Golf Club is a tough inland links course, used as an Open Championship Qualifier when the Open is at Royal Lytham & St Annes.
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Coombe Hill - Coombe Hill Golf Club is one of the few courses designed by J.F. “Aber” Abercromby and the heavily wooded layout is quintessentially English.
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Luffenham Heath - The course at Luffenham Heath Golf Club is charming, adorned by oak, elm and ash. Set in an area designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
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Mannings Heath (Waterfall) - The Waterfall course at Mannings Heath Golf Club is a beautiful West Sussex gem - part parkland, part heathland.
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Bovey Castle - Bovey Castle golf course is set magically in the beautiful Dartmoor National Park. It's an English treasure originally laid out by J.F. Abercromby.
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Bamburgh Castle - "There is surely no lovelier view from any golf course" wrote Darwin. Bamburgh Castle Golf Club, whilst not long, is fun with a capital F.
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North Hants - North Hants - home of Justin Rose. A delightful undulating heathland course, touched by the hands of numerous great architects.
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Ilkley - The river setting at Ilkley Golf Club is inspiring, it's a delightful place to play golf and it's a testing course too.
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Manor House - Situated on the southern edge of the Cotswolds, the Manor House Hotel and Golf Club is set magnificently in 365 acres of rolling countryside.
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Woodbridge - "Woodbridge Golf Club has everything in the world that one could desire except the sea. It has sand and bracken and gorse, beautiful turf and the smoothest of greens."
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Stoneham - Designed by Willie Park Junior in 1908, Stoneham Golf Club is set in delightful, historical parkland which was originally planted by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown.
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Seascale - Seascale Golf Club fits neatly into a small area, overlooked by the Sellafield Power Station, but providing views of the Isle of Man and the Lakeland Hills...
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Thurlestone - Founded in 1897 and fashioned by Harry Colt, Thurlstone Golf Club is a glorious cliff top cum links-like course with stunning coastal views.
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Close House (Colt) - The Colt golf course at Close House Hotel opened in the Spring of 2011 and its fairways are laid out over 160 acres of the Tyne Valley with many of the holes sympathetically fitted around existing trees and lakes.
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Tandridge - Tandridge Golf Club is billed as “the best kept golfing secret in Surrey” but we make no apology for letting the cat out of the bag.
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Forest Pines (Forest & Pines) - There is a hint of Woburn and a touch of Wentworth at Forest Pines Golf & Country Club and with 27 holes it’s a popular and pleasantly informal corporate and society venue.
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Northamptonshire County - If Northamptonshire County Golf Club was located closer to London, it would not only be well known, but also a regular ranking contender for our Britain & Ireland Top 100.
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Copt Heath - Founded in 1907, Copt Heath Golf Club is a mixture of park and heathland with holes lined by mature and grand trees waiting to catch the wayward drive.
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Mullion - Mullion Golf Club is England's most southerly course and it's a beauty, set spectacularly on the cliffs of the Cornish Lizard Peninsula.
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King's Lynn - The 10th at King's Lynn is regarded as one of the best holes in the East of England. The course plots its way through the delightful Castle Rising woods.
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Warwickshire (Earls) - The 36-hole Warwickshire Golf & Country Club boasts two courses (Kings and Earls). The Earls is the layout that receives the accolades due to its strong homeward nine.
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Huntercombe - Huntercombe Golf Club is just far enough removed from London to have effectively become an historical footnote in golf architecture.
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Royal Worlington & Newmarket - Royal Worlington & Newmarket Golf Club is a classic, sometimes referred to as Mildenhall and it’s the home of golf for undergraduates at Cambridge University.
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Royal Wimbledon - Royal Wimbledon Golf Club is a jewel in the heart of London. A delightful peaceful course with fairways lined with mature oak, chestnut and silver birch trees, with a little gorse thrown in for good measure.
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Kington - Kington Golf Club is the highest golf course in England and can be described as an inland-super-mare due to keen turf and rambunctious terrain.
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St Annes Old Links - Bobby Jones loved the par three 9th hole so much at St Annes Old Links Golf Club that he took detailed measurements and perhaps reproduced some aspects at Augusta.
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Thorpeness - Thorpeness Golf Club is laid out on predominantly sandy soil so, in a similar vein to nearby Aldeburgh, is a natural maritime heathland golf course...
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Moor Allerton - The course at Moor Allerton Golf Club was the first in the UK to be designed by the American architect Robert Trent Jones Senior, featuring shallow bunkers, huge teeing grounds, lakes and large contoured greens.
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Heythrop Park - Heythrop Park opened for limited play in October 2009. Routed through the leafy grounds of the stately Heythrop Estate, it's one of the century’s most exciting English golf developments...
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London Club (International) - The International course at the London Golf Club is a high-class accompaniment to the Jack Nicklaus designed Heritage course.
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Felixstowe Ferry (Martello) - "I have the tenderest and most sentimental association with Felixstowe Ferry Golf Club," wrote Darwin, "because it was there that I began to play golf."
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Burhill (Old) - Burhill, set in rolling Surrey parkland, was once the home of the Duchess of Wellington and has been restored to its former Georgian splendour.
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East Sussex National (East) - Gordon Brand Jnr. and David Gilford won the European Opens here in 1993 and 1994 respectively. It will come as no surprise to hear that East Sussex National’s East course is a big tournament layout.
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Crowborough Beacon - There are similarities between Crowborough and its delightful near neighbour, Royal Ashdown Forest, with spectacular views across the treetops and springy heathland/moorland turf.
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Ross-on-Wye - With holes cut through dense woodland, premium is placed on accuracy rather than sheer length at Ross-on-Wye Golf Club.
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Bowood Golf & Country Club - Few approaches to golf clubs are as grand as the entrance to the 2,000-acre Bowood Estate and there is a lovely feeling of peace and spaciousness here at Bowood Golf & Country Club.
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Coxmoor - Coxmoor Golf Club is a thoroughly testing and enjoyable heathland course, reminiscent of nearby Holinwell.
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Llanymynech - With fifteen holes in Wales and three in England, Llanymynech Golf Club is totally unique. On the 4th hole, you tee off in England and putt out in Wales.
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Brancepeth Castle - There is a great deal of variation to the holes at Brancepeth Castle Golf Club and the famous deep ravine, cutting through the course, makes for exciting golf.
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Cumberwell Park (Red & Yellow) - Patience is key to scoring well at Cumberwell Park Golf Club. There's a couple of extremely testing par fives and a number of well designed short holes.
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Knole Park - Designed by the great architect J.F. Abercromby in 1924, the unique Knole Park Golf Club has been described as an inland links.
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Players Club (Codrington) - If you like it long, you'll love The Players Golf Club. From the tips, the Codrington course is a monster, measuring 7,600 yards... choose your tee carefully!
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Linden Hall - Linden Hall Golf & Country Club is a unique and undulating mixture of 19th century parkland, mature woodland and open countryside.
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Pleasington - Pleasington Golf Club is without doubt one of the best tests of golf in the North-West of England. Part heathland in character with a supreme layout of holes.
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Clitheroe - Undeniably, Clitheroe Golf Club is one of the best inland courses in Lancashire and there are some excellent holes to be played here.
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Pannal - The charming course at Pannal Golf Club enjoys lovely views over the North Yorkshire moors and on a clear day to York Minster.
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Brampton - Brampton Golf Club was once described as the "Jewel of Cumbria" and likened by some to Gleneagles.
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Collingtree Park - It’s Collingtree Park Golf Club's long par five 18th that everyone talks about and it’s worthy of the excellent value green fee alone.
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Cavendish - Cavendish Golf Club is an undulating and partially wooded layout set within the Duke of Devonshire's estate. This MacKenzie course offers wonderful views over the Peak District.
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Dartmouth (Championship) - Undoubtedly the Dartmouth Golf & Country Club's Championship course is tough, but also there is a great deal of excitement to be had here, even for the average golfer.
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Sandiway - Sandiway Golf Club holds your interest right from the off with the opening seven holes having a different par to the last.
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Thorndon Park - Many of the holes at Thorndon Park Golf Club are surrounded by mature oaks, some of which are more than 500 years old.
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Stockport - Stockport Golf Club was founded in 1905 and designed by former Open Champion, Sandy Herd. The 6,400-yard par course represents a fine golfing test and has been regularly used for Open Championship Regional Qualifying.
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Gog Magog (Old) - Gog Magog isn't the biblical final opponent of Israel, nor is it located in the heart of Wales, it's Cambridgeshire's favourite golf club...
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Prestbury - Founded in 1920, Prestbury Golf Club has matured and developed into a fine parkland course - it's a real Cheshire jewel.
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Caldy - Caldy Golf Club has a delightful mix of seaside and inland holes. It provides a good test for the low handicapper and is enjoyable for the average golfer.
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Frilford Heath (Red) - "Frilford Heath is essentially one of those places where it is good to be alive with a golf club in one’s hand," wrote Darwin.
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Belfry (PGA National) - The PGA National has a distinctly American feel...it's a tough tournament course, which sits nicely alongside the Brabazon golf course at the Belfry.
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Wilmslow - The opening hole at Wilmslow Golf Club is a simple, but strategic par four that nicely sets the tone for the round as it’s one of many subtly doglegged holes to be faced.
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Wychwood Park - Wychwood Park opened for play in 2002 and it measures a huge 7,191 yards from the tips. Expect a serious challenge.
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Heswall - Formed on the Wirral in 1902, Heswall Golf Club overlooks the Dee Estuary and the Welsh hills. Jack Morris (nephew of Old Tom) laid out the course and a number of designers – including Harry Vardon, Frank Pennink and Donald Steel – have extended the layout down the years.
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Mendip - Close to historic city of Bath, you will find the village of Gurney Slade and the Mendip Golf Club. The highest point of the course is some 1,000 ft above sea level where the views are far reaching.
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Carden Park (Nicklaus) - The historic 17th century Carden Park Estate occupies some 750 acres of prime Cheshire countryside and has become a golfing Mecca in the northwest of England with the Nicklaus course the jewel in the crown.
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Portal (Championship) - There's plenty of golf to be played at the leafy Portal Golf and Country Club in the North West of England, 45 holes to be precise, but the best is certainly the Championship layout.
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Hesketh - Hesketh Golf Club is completely overshadowed by Royal Lytham & St Annes to the north and Royal Birkdale to the south but Hesketh pre-dates them both.
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Dunham Forest - Situated close to the old market town of Altrincham, the 18-hole course at Dunham Forest Golf Club enjoys a woodland setting that was once part of the Earl of Stamford’s estate.
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Orsett - Orsett Golf Club is unique... a heathland course in Essex. Designed by James Braid in 1929, Orsett is an Open Championship Regional Qualifying course that's full of charm and variety.
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Ringway - Situated in Hale Barns, close to Manchester airport, Harry Colt extended the undulating parkland course at Ringway Golf Club from a twelve to an 18-hole layout in 1912. James Braid suggested further changes and his son, a club member, implemented these before the end of 1960.
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Royal Norwich - Royal Norwich Golf Club is a very well established parkland course... a club with history. The layout has changed little since James Braid's alterations in 1924.
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Mere - Mere Golf and Country Club is an underrated layout. Home to the annual Howard Keel Celebrity-Am.
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Foxhills (Bernard Hunt) - The Bernard Hunt golf course at Foxhills plays across a delightful, undulating and densely forested parcel of land.
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Vale Royal Abbey - Designed by Simon Gidman, the contemporary parkland course at Vale Royal Abbey Golf Club was constructed with USGA specification greens as standard and it first opened for play in 1998.
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Bramall Park - Alister MacKenzie was responsible for laying out the course at Bramhall Park Golf Club and these 18 holes opened for play in 1922. Apart from when a couple of holes were reconfigured in 1967, the course largely remains true to its original design.
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Royal Blackheath - The 17th century Eltham Lodge is a worthy and fitting clubhouse for the Royal Blackheath Golf Club...
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Carlisle - The course at Carlisle Golf Club is attractive, surrounded by beech and pine and intersected by streams.
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Romiley - Founded in 1897, Romiley Golf Club is routed in two returning nine-hole loops. This pretty, parkland golf course is highly regarded in the Greater Manchester area as a layout with numerous strong holes.
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Bramhall - Measuring 6,347 yards from the back tees, the mature tree-lined course of Bramhall Golf Club may appear short at first glance, but with a lowly par of 70 and fast, true greens, it’s a real test for all golfers.
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High Post - With stunning views over Salisbury Plain, High Post Golf Club – founded in 1922 – is an intriguing downland golf course that is named after the site of an ancient gallows-pole.
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Reddish Vale - An Alister MacKenzie course that was designed in 1912, Reddish Vale Golf Club is a very pleasant moorland track laid out on the banks of the River Tame...
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Manchester Golf Club - Eight Scotsmen founded the Manchester Golf Club in 1882 but the current parkland cum moorland cum heathland course was designed by Harry Colt in 1912.
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Camberley Heath - Camberley Heath Golf Club is a Harry Colt gem and many of the master architect’s original design features remain intact...
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Bromborough - Bromborough Golf Club was established in 1903 and the course is set out in mature woodland within the Leverhulme Estate, between Ellesmere Port and Birkenhead. Today’s layout extends to just over 6,500 yards and it has been described as the “Wirral’s Parkland Jewel”.
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Tytherington - Opened in 1986, The Tytherington Club is a modern and testing championship golf course. It was Headquarters to the Ladies European Tour for ten years.
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Whittington Heath - Whittington Heath Golf Club is tucked away on an elevated heathland plateau in middle England where there are delightful views across to nearby Lichfield Cathedral.
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Sale - For almost a century, Sale Golf Club members have been able to enjoy a round on their parkland course before relaxing in the rather grand surroundings of a magnificent clubhouse that was once the lodge of Sale Old Hall.
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Carden Park (Cheshire) - Many golfers prefer the Cheshire course to the Nicklaus layout at De Vere’s impressive Carden Park golf complex as it offers greater variety and technical challenge than its higher ranked sibling.
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Bude & North Cornwall - Bude & North Cornwall Golf Club extends to just over 6,000 yards from the back markers but its modest overall length packs a punch late in the round...
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Orchardleigh - The country estate of Orchardleigh is the setting for the golf club and an 18-hole golf course that was designed in the mid 1990s by Brian Huggett in conjunction with Peter McEvoy.
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Warrington - Founded in 1903 and situated on high ground, Warrington Golf Club not only offers fine Pennine views but also an interesting heath-like golfing challenge.
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Royal Cromer - Royal Cromer Golf Club stands some 320 feet above the sandy beaches. The wooded and bracken covered ground is pleasantly undulating.
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Sherborne - James Braid’s Sherborne Golf Club is set majestically on undulating ground with glorious views over Blackmore Vale. It’s a charming course and a polished gem.
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West Cornwall - With panoramic views over St Ives Bay, West Cornwall Golf Club is a testing seaside course.
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Bolton Old Links - Bolton Old Links Golf Club is laid out in two loops of returning nines with the inward half routed around the outside of holes 1 to 9...
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West Surrey - West Surrey Golf Club is one of Surrey’s quintessential gems, shaped by Herbert Fowler. It's set in rolling, well wooded and park-like surroundings with the added bonus of charming views.
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Brokenhurst Manor - Situated on the southern edge of the New Forest, the 18-hole layout at Brokenhurst Manor opened for play in 1919, four years after the golf club was founded.
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Sand Moor - Dr Alister MacKenzie’s trademark greens are still in evidence here at Sand Moor Golf Club which has hosted a number of leading amateur and PGA events over the years.
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John O'Gaunt (John O'Gaunt) - The John O'Gaunt course at John O'Gaunt Golf Club is a magnificent parkland course with majestic specimen trees lining the lush fairways.
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Huddersfield - With Fixby Hall as the magnificent clubhouse, it's no surprise that Huddersfield is one of Yorkshire's finest and most respected golf clubs.
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Shanklin & Sandown - The Isle of Wight boasts seven golf courses and the best of these is this James Braid-designed 18-hole layout, lying close to the small settlements of Shanklin and Sandown.
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Woodbury Park (Oaks) - Configured in two returning loops of nine with holes 1 to 9 encircling the inward half, the Oaks at Woodbury Park Golf & Country Club is a testing, if somewhat hilly, parkland course...
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Thetford - Laid out on sandy soil within the Breckland Forest amongst pine, oak and birch, Thetford Golf Club is not only a wonderful place to play golf but also it’s a serious challenge.
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Weston-Super-Mare - Weston-Super-Mare Golf Club is a seaside course, lying to the south of Weston-Super-Mare Bay, with wonderful views across the Bristol Channel...
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Hawkstone Park (Hawkstone) - The complex at Hawkstone Park Golf Club extends to forty two holes – featuring the 18-hole Hawkstone and Championship courses and a 6-hole par three layout...
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Harrogate - Located close to the centre of the charming spa town of Harrogate, the golf club has been in existence since 1892 but it was five years later before a course came into play...
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Hallamshire - The course at Hallamshire Golf Club was once part of the Duke of Norfolk’s estate and it was laid out in 1897 when 100 acres of land was leased for golfing purposes.
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Bowood Park - The course at Bowood Park Golf Club is laid out within 230 acres of the 14th century hunting estate that belonged to Edward of Woodstock, Duke of Cornwall and the Prince of Wales...
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Royal Mid-Surrey (Outer) - The Old Deer Park is a pretty spot and it's home to Royal Mid-Surrey, one of London's greatest golf clubs.
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Rudding Park (Hawtree) - Rudding Park's Hawtree course was designed by the renowned golf architect Martin Hawtree and provides a stern test to handicap.
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Bath - Set out on a former stone quarry that operated on high ground overlooking the town, Bath Golf Club is blessed with free-draining soil...
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Tadmarton Heath - Tadmarton Heath Golf Club is a pretty little course sited close to the small market town of Banbury and its charming old Cotswold stone clubhouse is very much in keeping with its rustic surroundings.
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Woodsome Hall - Harry Colt designed Woodsome Hall Golf Club in 1922 and the club’s first professional, William Button, oversaw the construction.
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Newbury & Crookham - Newbury & Crookham Golf Club is one of the oldest in England but their present course at Greenham was laid out fifty years after the club’s 1873 formation.
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Old Thorns - The Old Thorns Estate was acquired by businessman Ken Wood in the late 1940s – a decade before he made his fortune with the development of the Kenwood food mixer...
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Conwy - Conwy Golf Club has played host to a number of major tournaments, including the Martini in 1970, when Peter Thomson and Doug Sewell tied on 268...
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West Berkshire - The West Berkshire Golf Club is a monster, measuring more than 7,000 yards from the back tees. The tips are not for the faint hearted.
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Nefyn & District (Old) - The course at Nefyn & District Golf Club is literally golf on the edge of the world and it makes the adrenaline pump...
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Denham - Donald Steel is a long-standing member at Denham Golf Club and he reckons it is the perfect model for any club...
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Tenby - Tenby Golf Club is situated on the beautiful Pembrokeshire coast, affording superb views across to one of the UK’s most fascinating and holiest of islands.
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Machynys Peninsula - With stunning views of Carmarthenshire Bay and the Gower Peninsula, the Nicklaus-designed 7,100-yard links-style Machynys Peninsula is set to become a Welsh flagship course...
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Ashburnham - Bernhard Gallacher picked up his first pay cheque at Ashburnham Golf Club when he won the 1969 Schweppes PGA Championship.
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Pyle and Kenfig - Pyle and Kenfig Golf Club, commonly known as P&K, is one of Wales’s finest links courses. Its famous regal neighbour, Royal Porthcawl, lies next door.
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Rolls of Monmouth - Set in the grounds of the former estate of Charles Stewart Rolls, the Rolls of Monmouth Golf Club really is the Rolls-Royce of hidden gems.
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Southerndown - Over time, sand has blown up from the seashore, coming to rest on the rolling slopes and giving the turf at Southerndown Golf Club a rather links-like character.
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Celtic Manor (Montgomerie) - Designed by Ryder Cup legend, Colin Montgomerie, his new course at the colossal Celtic Manor Resort opened for play in July 2007...
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St Pierre (Old) - It was here at St Pierre, in the 1980 British Masters, that Bernhard Langer became the first German to win a major tournament.
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Llandrindod Wells - Llandrindod Wells measures only 5,759 yards and features a number of old-fashioned design traits, including back-to-back par threes at the 10th and 11th holes...
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Celtic Manor (Roman Road) - Trent Jones Senior has created an American-style course that will appeal to golfers of all abilities for the holes are captivating and challenging.
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Welshpool - If you like old-fashioned golf with pulpit greens, ditches, greenside swales, the occasional blind shot and gorse lining almost every fairway then Welshpool Golf Club is for you!
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North Wales - North Wales is not only a test of ability but it also allows the golfer to relax and enjoy the exhilarating air and the magnificent scenery of the North Wales coast.
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Cardigan - The course sits high on a hill outside the town of Cardigan, overlooking the Teifi Estuary, with extensive views over Cardigan Bay and along the coast to Ceredigion in the north and Pembrokeshire to the south.
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Clyne - Founded in 1920, Clyne Golf Club was designed by Colt and Harris and the course is perched on the high ground of Clyne Common more than 300 feet above sea level.
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Holyhead - The delightful heathland course at Holyhead Golf Club is tucked away on Holy Island, in the very north west corner of Wales...
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Neath - Neath Golf CLub is a James Braid classic with many varied holes and magnificent views from its high hilltop location.
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Bull Bay - Bull Bay Golf Club is the most northerly course in Wales and was designed by the esteemed architect, Herbert Fowler...
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Porthmadog - Porthmadog Golf Club was founded in 1905 and James Braid designed it. The course is an exciting hybrid mix of parkland and links holes.
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Borth & Ynyslas - Borth & Ynyslas Golf Club is a rugged seaside links and they strongly claim to be the oldest club in Wales.
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Langland Bay - With delightful changes in elevation throughout, Langland Bay Golf Club is not long at 5,857 yards, but what it doesn’t have in yardage it makes up for in many other ways...
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Newport Golf Club - Founded in 1903, Newport Golf Club is one of the best parkland courses in South Wales and it’s set some 300-feet above sea level among the birch, beech and oak trees of the Llwyni Wood.
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Pwllheli - Pwllheli Golf Club is unique... park-like and links-like. The clubhouse is so close to the sea that it's almost a boathouse.
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Vale of Llangollen - Nestling in a delightful valley, Vale of Llangollen Golf Club is the quintessential gem. Shhh... don't tell too many people.
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Cradoc - Cradoc Golf Club can best be described, in the words of one golf commentator, as “an arboretum set down in scenery that can only be described as drop-dead gorgeous”.
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Royal Jersey - Royal Jersey Golf Club is routed over delightful sandy ground, flanked to the east by Royal Grouville Bay. This is where Harry Vardon cut his golfing teeth.
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La Moye - La Moye Golf Club is set spectacularly on a promontory, some 250 feet above sea level. The views are quite breathtaking, overlooking the wide sweep of St Ouen's Bay...
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Royal Guernsey - Royal Guernsey Golf Club was established in 1890 but the present course is a more recent creation, laid out by Philip Mackenzie Ross in 1949.
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Castlerock (Mussenden) - Living in the shadow of its famous neighbours, Portstewart and Royal Portrush, Castlerock Golf Club is every bit as good, and the Mussenden will not disappoint.
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Malone - If you are in Belfast and you’ve got your golf clubs handy, make sure you play the immaculately conditioned Malone Golf Club. You’ll be hard pressed to find a better parkland course in Northern Ireland.
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Belvoir Park - With undulating, lush fairways and avenues of trees, Belvoir Park Golf Club is quite rightly regarded as one of the best inland courses in Northern Ireland.
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Royal Portrush (Valley) - How many people have made a point of playing Royal Portrush Golf Club and never given a thought to playing the sadly underrated Valley course – something approaching 90%, perhaps even more?
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Ardglass - With the opening five holes hugging the cliffs with resplendent views across the Irish Sea, it's clear that Ardglass Golf Club is special.
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Clandeboye (Dufferin) - The Dufferin course at Clandeboye Golf Club offers compelling coastal views, a sea of dazzling yellow gorse and a wonderfully strategic challenge.
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Royal Belfast - Founded in 1881, Royal Belfast is Ireland's oldest golf club and there are panoramic views across Belfast Lough from this delightful park course.
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Galgorm Castle - The course at Galgorm Castle Golf Club lies within a spacious 220-acre estate that was once the ancestral home of the McQuillan clan and the Castle that looms over the 10th green dates back to 1618...
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Scrabo - The course at Scrabo Golf Club lies on the gorse-covered contours of Scrabo Hill and there are wonderful panoramic views to be enjoyed from many of the fairway vantage points...
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Kirkistown Castle - Kirkistown Castle Golf Club in Cloughey, County Down, is the most easterly 18-hole course in Ireland...
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Castlerock (Bann) - The 2,446-yard 9-hole Bann is Castlerock Golf Club's relief course and it's routed through towering dunes that sit just off the Atlantic shoreline.
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Templepatrick - Designed by David Jones and David Feherty, the par 71 Templepatrick layout can be set up from between 5,565 and 7,077 yards in length.
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Bangor - Bangor Golf Club still retains the original Braid design hallmarks that have delighted generations of local golfers.
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Cairndhu - Cairndhu Golf Club is a hilly seaside course, laid out on cliffs which offer absolutely sensational views of the Antrim coastline...
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Lisburn - Lisburn Golf Club is considered to be one of the best parkland courses in Ireland with a great variety of holes.
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Ballycastle - Ballycastle Golf Club is regarded by some as a quirky little course with many changes in elevation. Quirky it may be – but uninteresting? Never!
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Royal County Down (Annesley) - Donald Steel & Company undertook a major redesign of the original Annesley course at Royal County Down Golf Club, which included the formation of several new holes.
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Spa - Playing to a par of 72 with an overall yardage of 6,130 yards from the back tees, the course of Spa Golf Club at Ballynahinch is an engaging parkland track with a nicely balanced set of par threes...
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Massereene - Massereene Golf Club was formed back in 1895 so members have enjoyed playing in a lovely parkland setting on the shores of Lough Neagh for over one hundred years.
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Gracehill - Set in peaceful rural surroundings, Gracehill Golf Club is a challenging layout and considered to be one of the best parkland courses in Northern Ireland.
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Knock - Tree-lined fairways, well positioned bunkers and pristine putting surfaces result in an exceptional golfing challenge at Knock Golf Club but for how much longer?
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Ballyliffin (Old) - The Old course at Ballyliffin Golf Club is a classic links, with fairways that pitch and roll through wild dunes.
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K Club (Palmer) - The K Club is probably the most opulent golf resort in Ireland. This is where an Irish piper will greet you as you switch off your helicopter.
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Carton House (Montgomerie) - The Montgomerie course at Carton House hosted the 2005 Irish Open. Although not a links course, it looks and plays like one.
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Killarney (Killeen) - There are three golf courses at the Killarney Golf & Fishing Club and the Killeen is considered to be the best.
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Portmarnock Hotel & Golf Links - For such a new layout, the Portmarnock Hotel and Golf Links is a very natural and understated course. There is nothing showy about the design; the natural links land is used simply and effectively.
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Royal Dublin - Royal Dublin Golf Club is located on Bull Island, in Dublin Bay. The island was formed following the building of a sea wall in the early 1800s. The result is a perfect sandy island, superb terrain for a golf course...
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Dooks - Dooks Golf Club is a tranquil, engaging and fun golf course. It also provides a true and traditional links experience.
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Portsalon - Portsalon Golf Club is an exhilarating golf course, situated in a stunning location with most of the holes weaving their way between sand dunes.
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Headfort (New) - The new course at Headfort Golf Club is a tough, sculptured parkland layout, designed by Christy O'Connor Jnr.
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Carlow (Deerpark) - Carlow Golf Club is set in a delightful wooded deer park that once formed part of the estate of Henry Bruen.
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Palmerstown House - Jim Mansfield bought the Palmerstown House Estate in 1999 and, with the help of Christy O’Connor Jnr, he has since transformed a substantial part of the former stud farm into a magnificent championship golf course
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Fota Island (Deerpark) - The Deerpark course at Fota Island has played host to three Irish Open Amateur Championships and the Irish PGA Championship, impressive for a track which only opened for play in 1993.
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Concra Wood - The O'Connor partnership carefully routed the layout at Concra Wood Golf & Country Club so that holes only reveal themselves as the golfer stands on the tee...
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Connemara (A & B) - If you are brave enough to tackle the brutal A & B golf course from Connemara Golf Club's back tees – good luck. Pray that the wind machine is turned off.
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Slieve Russell - Slieve Russell Golf & Country Club is set in the heart of beautiful rolling County Cavan countryside amongst the lakes and drumlins.
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Narin & Portnoo - Tucked away in the southwest corner of Donegal, Narin and Portnoo Golf Club is a links that deserves to be bracketed with many other natural, unspoilt courses that should be given greater recognition.
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Killeen Castle - Killeen Castle Golf Club hosted the revived Ladies Irish Open in 2010 – when Sophie Gustafson won the event by one stroke...
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Rosslare (Championship) - Rosslare is regarded as being the sunniest spot in Ireland and it is almost unheard of to have the course at Rosslare Golf Club closed due to bad weather or ground conditions.
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Heritage - The gently undulating course at the Heritage Golf and Spa Resort has been constructed to a high specification in a collaboration between Seve Ballesteros and Jeff Howes.
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K Club (Smurfit) - If you are a traditionalist then the Smurfit golf course is probably not up your street. If you are seeking thrills and excitement, then the K Club is for you.
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Seapoint - Seapoint Golf Club is one of the best courses on Ireland’s East Coast you have never heard of. Play this secret gem and tell nobody.
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Rathsallagh - Rathsallagh Golf Club at Rathsallagh House is a long and challenging course with plenty of variety and interest.
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Cork - Cork Golf Club is one of the most attractive courses in Ireland. It's delightfully situated on a tiny peninsula called Little Island...
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Ballybunion (Cashen) - Ballybunion Golf Club is unforgettable. Everyone comes here to play the Old course, but do not overlook the wild and controversial Cashen.
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Carton House (O'Meara) - The O'Meara is the oldest of the two courses at Carton House. Designed by Mark in conjunction with European Golf Design, opening for play in May 2002.
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Tullamore - With the Slieve Bloom Mountains as a backdrop, Tullamore Golf Club is a classic parkland course measuring 6,428 yards from the back markers.
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Dingle - Ceann Sibeal - Dingle Golf Club or Ceann Sibéal as it is sometimes called is a natural and evocative links course overlooking Dingle Bay.
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Rosapenna (Old Tom Morris) - In September of 2009, Rosapenna's Old Tom Morris golf course reopened after a major facelift.
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Westport - Westport Golf Club boasts fantastic views of the surrounding area from its elevated position above the shore of Clew Bay.
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Curragh - The Curragh Golf Club claim to play over the oldest course in all of Ireland. The club also holds a valid "Royal" title but chooses not use it.
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Rathcore - Rathcore Golf Club is located in rolling parkland with a number of natural springs that bring water into play at no fewer than twelve of the holes.
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Strandhill - Between the Atlantic and Knocknarea Mountain lies Strandhill Golf Club. Described by Christy O'Connor Senior as "the hidden jewel of the West".
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Skellig Bay - The front nine holes at Skellig Bay Golf Club run along the banks of the Fionnglassa River with the back routed over cliffs high above the Atlantic Ocean.
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Mullingar - With fine turf, Mullingar Golf Club is a delightful walk in the park and the course has a fine collection of one-shot holes.
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Druids Heath - The Druids Heath golf course at Druids Glen is a mix of heathland and parkland with some links-like elements thrown in for good measure.
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Bunclody - Set out on the banks of the River Slaney within the former Hall-Dare estate in Co Wexford, the course at Bunclody Golf & Fishing Club is another top-notch 18-hole layout from Jeff Howes...
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Portumna - The mature trees that bound many fairways provide a full range of seasonal colour at Portumna Golf Club and the wild deer that roam the course are a very pleasant diversion if spotted.
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Killarney (Mahoney's Point) - The last three holes on the Mahoney’s Point course at Killarney Golf & Fishing Club are part of Campbell’s original design, one of the finest finishing stretches in golf.
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Tramore - Tramore Golf Club is a parkland course built on rolling terrain with many fairways framed by mature stands of trees and it bears resemblance to London's great heathland courses.
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Mount Wolseley - The parkland golf course at the Mount Wolseley Resort is very demanding, where only the really big hitters will be teeing up from the championship markers.
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Grange - Grange Golf Club is renowned as one of the best parkland courses in Dublin with its 400-yard par four 18th hole as good a closing hole as any in Ireland.
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Luttrellstown Castle - Set in rolling countryside with several lakes and many stands of mature trees, Luttrellstown Castle is a very pleasant place to play golf.
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Dromoland Castle - The course at Dromoland Castle Golf Club has been around for over forty years but in the last two years, dramatic changes have elevated it to new levels.
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Powerscourt (West) - The West course at Powerscourt Golf Club was created by DMK Golf Design – whose founder, David McLay Kidd, was the man responsible for designing the much-acclaimed Bandon Dunes.
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Tulfarris - With no two holes alike, Tulfarris Golf Club is an exciting course having played host to the Irish Seniors Open Championship.
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Castle - Castle Golf Club, a 6,270-yard, par 70 parkland course is laid out in two loops of nine holes with a sting in the tail...
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Naas - Naas Golf Club is a traditional parkland course laid out on rolling terrain with tree-lined fairways.
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Woodenbridge - Woodenbridge Golf Club is a delightful, well-maintained, top quality parkland track which is situated in one of Ireland’s most scenic locations.
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Arklow - Arklow Golf Club’s 6,387 yards are laid out over classic links land with plenty of humps and hollows, sand hills, gorse, marram grass and bunkers to be negotiated throughout the eighteen holes.
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Moyvalley - Moyvalley is located about a 40-minute drive to the west of Dublin and the golf course is draped across part of the 550-acre Balyna Estate where the historic Balyna House provides a magnificent backdrop.
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New Forest - Located in the heart of the Irish Midlands, the 18-hole parkland course at New Forest Golf Club is laid out over gently undulating terrain...
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Ashford Castle - Ireland has many golf courses set in mature wooded estates but Ashford Castle Golf Club’s lovely little 9-hole layout in County Mayo is among the best...
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Connemara Isles - This, quite simply, is Irish golf at its very best. Connemara Isles Golf Club encapsulates all that is good about old fashioned golf played in stunning surroundings...
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Gowran Park - It is a well-known fact that the Irish love not only the game of golf, they also adore the sport of Kings – horseracing. Combine the two together and you have Gowran Park Golf Club in County Kilkenny.
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Dundrum - County Tipperary (or should we say Dundrum House Golf Club?) is set in an elegant Georgian estate featuring mature woodland and parkland flanked by the Multeen River.
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Hermitage - Hermitage Golf Club has earned the reputation of being the club of choice for the rich and famous in Dublin society.
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Athlone - Athlone Golf Club has been chosen many times by the Golfing Union of Ireland as a venue for competitions at all levels...
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Bantry Bay - Bantry Bay golf course lies along the coast from the town and although it is located beside the sea, it’s a parkland layout, sitting on cliff-tops overlooking the water.
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Galway Bay - The course at Galway Bay Golf Resort has been described as “parkland by the sea” with a strong American design influence.
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Bearna - The golf club motto, translated from the Gaelic, is "welcome, and may lark song accompany you." Bearna certainly love to bring wildlife into the naming of holes...
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Glasson - The Reid family must be thanked for the gift of Glasson, for they gave up their land and their period home to enable the birth of the Glasson Golf and Country Club.
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Dun Laoghaire - If ever a golf club was set to face the challenges of the modern golf game then it’s Dun Laoghaire.
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Galway - The design of the current course at Galway Golf Club is down to the efforts of the celebrated Scottish designer Alister MacKenzie who laid out the 18 holes in 1926.
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Cruit Island - Cruit Island Golf Club is considered by some to be one of the best 9-hole golf courses in the world. It is certainly one of the most scenic courses in Ireland.
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Kilkenny - Kilkenny Golf Club is one of the oldest clubs in the country, formed five years before the Golf Union of Ireland was established in 1891.
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Farnham Estate - The 18-hole layout at Farnham Estate Golf Club is a stunning contemporary course that came directly from the design studio of Kilkenny-based Canadian architect Jeff Howes.
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Shannon - Opened for play in 1966, Shannon Golf Club has developed into one of the best inland courses in the county of Clare, hosting a number of national amateur championships in recent years.
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Laytown & Bettystown - Laytown & Bettystown Golf Club contains many of the characteristics treasured by links lovers – humps and hollows, blind approaches and an out-and-back routing that follows the natural contours of the land.
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Birr - The Irish Midlands are often overlooked when searching for good golf courses but Birr Golf Club is a fine example of a mature parkland course.
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Greenore - Greenore Golf Club consists of a mixture of “links-like” and parkland holes framed by tall pine trees.
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Castletroy - Castletroy is a pleasant, though testing, parkland course that was radically updated in 2005 by architect Eddie Connaughton.
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Macreddin - The course at Macreddin Golf Club is Paul McGinley's inaugural design and it’s the main leisure component of a village which now comprises a 90-room country house hotel, spa, restaurant, pub and shops.
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Coollattin - Coollattin Golf Club is located in a 175-acre County Wicklow estate with a rich history.
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Lisheen Springs - Lisheen Springs, formerly known as South County Golf Club, is a high quality new course, designed with strategy in mind. It’s set in a tranquil landscape with the mountains providing a delightful backdrop.
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Powerscourt (East) - The East course at Powerscourt Golf Club is a serious test, especially from the championship tees, which stretch out beyond 7,000 yards.
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Nenagh - Nenagh Golf Club has been very astute over the years in employing a number of top class golf course architects in the design of their golf course.
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Castlemartyr - The 6,790-yard golf course at the Castlemartyr Resort forms the main recreational option at a 5-star County Cork facility that also offers more sedate recreational facilities like archery and clay pigeon shooting.
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Wicklow - Wicklow is laid out on cliffs overlooking the Irish Sea, with stunning views from many vantage points as it follows the coastline contours and undulations.
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Dundalk - Dundalk Golf Club has undergone several design changes over the years. James Braid modified the course and then Dave Thomas upgraded it.
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Rossmore - One of only a handful of golf courses located in County Monaghan, Rossmore Golf Club is as close to a hidden gem as you could care to imagine.
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St Anne's - St. Anne’s Golf Club shares Bull Island with The Royal Dublin Golf Club and it was around the time that Harry Colt rebuilt the Royal course that nine holes were laid out by members and a club established in 1921.
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Arabian Ranches - Arabian Ranches Golf Club opened in February 2004 and this was Ian Baker-Finch's first collaboration with Nicklaus Design.
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Alands (Castle) - Situated on a beautiful peninsula, the Castle course at Ålands Golf Club is the best track on this island archipelago.
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Otocec - Architects Peter Skofic and Howard Swan collaborated to produce the 18-hole Otočec golf course, which is routed thoughtfully between the pines on undulating ground near to Slovenia’s medieval Otočec castle.
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Steiermarkischer Murhof - Steiermärkischer Golf Club at Murhof is set most enchantingly and Bernhard von Limburger designed it in 1963 when few locals were interested in golf.
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Klagenfurt - Seltenheim - The province of Carinthia borders Italy and Slovenia and, not far from lake Wörthersee, is one of the country's leading courses - Klagenfurt-Seltenheim.
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Colony Club Gutenhof (West) - Colony Club Gutenhof is located a mere 10 kilometres to the south of Vienna and this was Austria's first 36-hole golf club.
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Eichenheim - When Kyle Phillips gets involved in golf design, everyone expects something special. Eichenheim is enchanting and perhaps the best new Austrian course.
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Diamond Country Club (Diamond) - There are two courses at the Diamond Country Club, the Diamond Leisure and the Diamond. The Diamond Leisure is a simple, pleasant affair but the Diamond course is the real thing.
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Haugschlag (Waldviertel) - There is not only one but three courses at Haugschlag, but the course that everyone wants to play is the Waldviertel, three times Austrian Open venue.
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Neusiedlersee-Donnerskirchen - Neusiedlersee-Donnerskirchen is another course from the prolific design duo Kurt Rossknecht and Hans Erhardt and it opened for play in 1990.
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Schloss Ebreichsdorf - Schloss Ebreichsdorf Golf Club opened for play in 1988 and it’s one of Keith Preston’s best designs.
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Dachstein-Tauern - Situated in the Styrian region of Austria, the 18-hole layout at Dachstein-Tauern Golf & Country Club is a Bernard Langer-designed alpine course that lies on the floor of a valley...
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Linz - British architect Donald Harradine designed Linz and it's set in the Tillysburg Estate on rolling land.
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Karntner Dellach - Kärntner Golf-Club Dellach in one of the oldest golf clubs in Austria, named after the federal state of Kärntner and Dellach, the adjacent lakeside resort.
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Limburg - Not unlike a British heathland course, the layout at Limburg Golf & Country Club twists and turns through beautiful woodland.
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Royal Waterloo (La Marache) - The golf course La Marache at the Royal Waterloo Golf Club is one of Fred Hawtree's finest designs, which his son redeveloped in 2007.
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Royal Hainaut (Bruyeres & Quesnoy) - Tom Simpson is credited with several Belgian designs and he laid out the original 18-hole course at Royal Golf Club du Hainaut in 1933.
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Royal Sart Tilman - Tom Simpson routed Royal Sart Tilman over high ground to the south of Liège and the glorious rolling wooded terrain provides a tricky golfing challenge.
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Royal Ostend - Belgium’s only links course – Royal Ostend – was founded in 1903 and it’s a technically challenging test of golf amongst the coastal dunes.
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Royal Latem - Royal Latem Golf Club is strategically bunked with an occasional pond to focus the mind. The course is routed through avenues of trees, so straight and accurate ball striking is always the order of the day.
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Dolina Kardinala - Designed by Howard Swan, Dolina Kardinala is named after the colloquial name for the Jastrebarsko region (“Valley of the Cardinals”) where many leading clergy, military leaders, politicians and artists have lived.
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BlackSeaRama - BlackSeaRama co-hosted the 5th Bulgarian Open Amateur Championship in 2009, sharing the tournament with another new venture, the Ian Woosnam-designed course at the Lighthouse Golf Resort...
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Lighthouse - The Lighthouse course at the Lighthouse Golf Resort and Spa is one of three new layouts to have opened along Bulgaria’s Black Sea coastline since 2008...
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Aphrodite Hills - Routed over two plateaux, Aphrodite Hills is one of the best and most challenging Mediterranean courses.
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Secret Valley - All in all Secret Valley Golf Club is a very pleasant place for golf... but don't keep it a secret.
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Ypsilon - Ypsilon was designed by Austrian-based architect Keith Preston and it became an instant hit with local golfers when it opened for play...
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Karlovy Vary - The Czech Republic is certainly steeped in history and the spa town of Karlovy Vary is romantic and enchanting. But we think that the classic Karlovy Vary golf course is well worth a visit in its own right.
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Royal Marianske Lazne - Pine trees surround the Royal Marianske Lazne property and this majestic parkland golf course will test your driving skills and flatter your distances...
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Karlstejn - The 6,433-yard course at Karlstejn Golf Resort lies in the grounds of Karlstejn Castle and is routed over a hilly, wooded landscape with limestone outcrops, ravines and a couple of lakes.
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Casa Serena - The exclusive and private course at Casa Serena is routed with returning loops of nine holes over what was previously used as farmland, secluded from the modern world by dense forest.
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Prosper (Old) - Designed by Miguel Angel Jiménez, the Old course at Prosper Golf Resort Èeladná can be extended to a massive 7,177-yards and it opened for play in 2001.
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Kuneticka Hora - Laid out on a plain beneath Mount Kunìtická, a cone-shaped hill topped by a 15th-century castle ruin, the Kuneticka Hora fairways spread out round three large lakes on an imposing 350-acre site.
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Konopiste (Radecky) - Konopištì's Radecky course – named after Napoleonic War marshal Václav Radecky of Radeè – is the creation of John Burns.
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Monachus (Mnich) - Opening to great acclaim in 2001, the 27-hole Monachus Golf Resort lies close to the Austrian border in a delightful area known as Czech Canada.
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Astoria Golf Resort - Set in western Bohemia, in the beautiful Slavkovsky forest, near Karlovy Vary, the Cihelny course is laid out on the flood plain of the river Teplá...
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Pilsen - Laid out in a wooded valley either side of the Klabava River, Pilsen is one of the best additions to the country’s portfolio of modern golf courses.
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Podebrady - Podìbrady's 6,684-yard course is one of the more established layouts in the country, having been constructed in 1961.
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Austerlitz - Austerlitz was designed by the Austrian golf architect, Hans-George Erhardt and it is complemented by a 30-room hotel which offers a wide and eclectic array of additional sporting pursuits...
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Nova Amerika - The three 9-hole courses at Nová Amerika each have their own design influences – "Woodland" is typically European, "Maple Hills" has an American feel and "Bohemian Garden" contains Scottish links elements.
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Scandinavian (New) - The New course at The Scandinavian Golf Club is a tight layout like its sibling and you are reminded of this at the very outset where the 1st plays to a very narrow fairway.
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Silkeborg - Silkeborg Golf Club is situated in Resenrbro in the part of Denmark known as “the heart of Jutland.” Formed in 1966, the club is one of the finest in the country.
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Simon's - Designed by English architect Martin Hawtree and opened for play in 1993 by Ian Woosnam, Simon’s hosted the first European Tour event in Denmark, the Nordic Open, won by Ian Poulter.
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Rungsted - Major Charles A. MacKenzie, brother of Dr Alister MacKenzie, designed Rungsted Golf Club in 1936 and it’s one of Denmark’s oldest and most important courses.
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Skjoldenaesholm (RTJ) - Skjoldenaesholm measures more than 6,500 metres from the championship tees but strategy as well as length is all-important because there is often more than one way to play each hole.
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Sct. Knuds - Before you cross the bridge between Fuen and Sealand – one of the longest suspension bridges in the world – you drive past Sct. Knuds Golf Club.
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Nordvestjysk - Nordvestjysk Golfklub is set some four kilometres from the sea and the course is routed across a layer of sand that over time has blown in from the coast.
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Hjarbaek Fjord (North & South) - Hjarbaek Fjord Golf Club is located on the eastern side of the crescent-shaped fjord from which the club takes its name. With 27 holes, this is a popular facility that comes highly regarded by many Danish golfers.
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Royal Oak - Royal Oak Golf Club is a lovely parkland course, laid out on the shores on Lake Jels in central south Jutland, with some beautiful holes routed along the edge of the water.
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Helsingor - Helsingør Golf Club was founded in 1927 and is one of Denmark’s oldest courses. It enjoys a wonderful parkland setting and is highly regarded by members and visitors.
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Lyngbygaard (18-hole) - Lyngbygaard Golf Club was founded in 2008 and is located some five kilometres to the west of Aarhus, Denmark’s second largest city.
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Kobenhavn - Founded in 1898, Copenhagen is the oldest golf club in Scandinavia and since 1899 the layout has been routed across part of the unique Dyrehaven nature reserve.
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Aalborg - Aalborg is the second oldest golf club in Denmark with members celebrating its centenary in 2008.
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Laeso Seaside - Laeso Seaside lies to the north east of the island – where half timbered houses thatched with seawood lie along the coast...
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Trehoje - Opened in the mid 1990s, the pine and heather flanked Trehoje was designed by Poul Erik Hingebjerg and it’s already one of Denmark’s best courses.
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Vejle - The picturesque Danish town of Vejle lies on the southeast coast of the Jutland peninsula and a few miles outside the town, on the forested southern flank of the Veijle Fjord, sits a modern golf complex consisting of three 9-hole courses...
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Himmerland (PGA New) - With 36 holes from which to choose, Himmerland has plenty of golf on offer but if you want to play the best course then choose the PGA New course, which was designed by Jan Sederholm.
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Stensballegaard (Brakor & Elbaek) - Located on the northern bank of Horsens Fjord, Stensballegaard Golf Club comprises of three 9-hole loops – Brakor, Elbaek and Guldbjerg – which opened in 2009 and were laid out on former farmland by Rick Baril of von Hagge, Smelek and Baril.
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Samso - Architect Henrik Jacobsen set out the 18-hole course at Samso Golf Club in the north east corner of the island back in 1992 and it measures a modest 6,176 yards from the back tees
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Fano - You’ll need to catch the ferry to the island of Fano to play Fanø Golf Links. There’s a real hint of Scotland here on this windswept linksland.
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Mon - Mon Golf Club was formed in 1992 and within a couple of years a course was available for play, laid out on wooded, hilly terrain to the east of Stege.
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Falster - After an hour’s drive out of the capital, Copenhagen, you cross the bridge to the island of Falster where you’ll eventually find Falster Golfklub, built on land belonging to Skjørring Gods.
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Estonian (Sea) - The Estonian Golf & Country Club is recognised as one of the best complexes in Eastern Europe and it has been attracting a growing number of golfers to its fairways since it first opened in 2005.
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Fureso - Furesø is a 27-hole facility, parkland in style, with many small ponds coming into play. The original 18-hole championship course comprises of the Farum and Hestkøbsgård nines.
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Tallinn – Niitvalja - The members of Tallinn Golf Club are proud of the fact that their Niitvälja course was the first golf facility to open in the Baltic region back in 1993...
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Hvide Klit - Wind plays an important role at Hvide Klit and although the course measures a relatively modest 5,870 metres from the regular tees you’ll need a long iron in your hands for many approach shots.
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Gilleleje - A round at Gilleleje Golf Club starts gently, with three short par fours – measuring between 317 and 349 yards – in the opening five holes.
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Hillerod - Hillerød Golf Club is a very pleasant combination of gently undulating parkland and woodland golf, laid out on either side of a railway line.
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Nordcenter (Fream) - Nordcenter (Fream) has some eye-catching holes routed near to the coastline. In particular, the three holes from 6 to 8 are fantastic.
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Vierumaki (Cooke) - Located on the beautiful Salpausselkä ridge in the south of the country, the Vierumäki golf complex is part of a centre of excellence for the Sport Institute of Finland...
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Oulun (Sanki) - Ron Fream laid out 27 holes at Oulun and they opened for play in 1992. A further nine holes were added in 2005, creating the Sanki and Vaara 18-hole courses.
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Ruuhikoski - There is plenty of variation at Ruuhikoski to keep everyone entertained with some holes in open country and others cut through swathes of pines.
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Pickala (Forest) - The Forest layout measures 6,769 yards from the back tees and it’s routed in a giant clockwise loop around the perimeter of the Pickala golf complex...
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Aura - Aura golf course opened in 1958 within a former castle estate and magnificent oak trees frame most of the holes.
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Nordcenter (Benz) - The Nordcenter Benz layout is routed around six lakes which come into play on ten holes and the course tempts the big hitters to open their shoulders...
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Kymen - Designed by the respected Finnish architect Kosti Kuronen, Kymen is laid out in a naturally forested area, with numerous water hazards around the property...
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Espoo - Designed by Jan Sederholm and opened in 1982, Espoo Golf Club, or Espoon Golfseura, is the second oldest course in Finland, which is laid out over a wooded river valley with an out and back routing.
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Tahko (Old) - Situated by beautiful Lake Syväri, the Jan Sederholm-designed Old course at Tahko Golf Club is widely acknowledged as one of the most scenic in the country.
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Helsinki - Helsinki Golf Club was Finland’s first golf course and it’s set within the grounds of Tali Manor and is routed over very pleasant parkland…
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Talma (Master) - Designed by Henrik Wartiainen and originally opened in 1990 as a 27-hole amenity, Talma has since been expanded to its current 45-hole configuration.
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St Laurence (New) - St Laurence has two championship 18-hole courses at their disposal, the Kalkki-Petteri (“Old course”) and Pyhä Lauri (“New course”) as well as a 6-hole par three practice facility.
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Sarfvik (New) - Fairways flanked by mature trees lend a tranquil ambience to the round on Sarfvik's New course and afford the golfer a feeling of complete isolation from the outside world.
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Kerigolf - The Kerigolf course is laid out in a beautiful forest setting with pleasant changes in elevation throughout.
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Master (Master) - Prolific Finnish architect Kosti Kuronen was responsible for the design of The Master and it opened for play in 1987.
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Pickala (Seaside) - The three 18-hole courses at Pickala Golf Club are part of the Pickala Village holiday resort golf facility which also includes a partly covered range, putting and pitching greens, short game area and practice course.
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Chiberta - Golf de Chiberta is a monument to one of the world’s greatest architects, Tom Simpson, and it is also one of the few links courses on the French Atlantic coastline.
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Courson (Vert & Noir) - The Green and Black (Vert & Noir) course is widely considered to form the better layout at Golf du Stade Français Courson...
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Limere - Limère is a modern, thoughtfully designed Cabell B. Robinson layout which opened for play in 1992 and can be enjoyed equally by golfers of all abilities.
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Paris International - Paris International is routed over hilly terrain with ponds to be negotiated at half the holes on the card, especially at the downhill, par five 18th that plays to an island green.
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Soufflenheim - At Golfclub International Soufflenheim Baden-Baden are the courses that Bernhard Langer created in the heart of Alsace...
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Saint-Cloud (Vert) - There have been 14 French Opens held at Saint-Cloud since 1926 – the last of them in 1987, when Jose Rivero won the competition...
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Nimes Campagne - Nîmes Campagne is located in the South of France on hilly heavily wooded terrain. The clubhouse dates back to 1902 and it was built by its former owner as a miniature replica of the White House in Washington.
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Pleneuf-Val-Andre - Pleneuf-Val Andre is not long, measuring a little less than 5,900 metres from the tips, but the trick here is to keep keep the ball in play, wrestle with the fickle wind and negotiate many uneven lies.
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Royal Mougins - Royal Mougins, open since 1993, reposes in a secluded valley near the town of Mougins and a short drive from Cannes.
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Belle Dune - Belle Dune nestles perfectly within some of the finest dune land in Europe, a stone’s throw away from the sea.
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Chateau de Taulane - The “Black Knight”, Gary Player designed the Taulane layout, which is set on some 120 hectares and opened for play in 1992 to critical acclaim.
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Pont Royal - Pont Royal Golf Club opened for play in 1992 and it’s the only golf course in France designed by Seve Ballesteros.
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Albi - Golf d’Albi Lasbordes was one of a dozen designs that Pern introduced to the French golfing public during a prolific nine year period from 1986 to 1994...
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Bondues (Trent Jones) - Host to many national and international events (most recently the European Young Masters), the Trent Jones course at Bondues has gained a good reputation.
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Lyon (Sangliers) - Villette d’Anthon was one of the first and biggest golf developments in the Rhone region and the championship Sangliers course was built in 1991.
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Grenoble Bresson - Golf International de Grenoble Bresson at Bresson is one of just a handful of Robert Trent Jones Jnr designs to be found throughout France...
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Les Aisses - The original design at Les Aisses was modern and occasionally eccentric, but Hawtree Limited changed all that in 2010 and the golf course now harks back to the Golden Age.
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Saint Donat - One of half a dozen French golf projects that Robert Trent Jones II has been involved in, Saint Donat is a tree-lined parkland course that’s laid out over undulating terrain in two returning 9-hole circuits.
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Cannes-Mandelieu (Old) - Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia founded one of the oldest golfing layouts in France, the Old course at Cannes-Mandelieu in 1891.
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St Nom-la-Breteche (Bleu) - The two 18-hole golf courses here may only have been in use for around half a century but collectively they’ve given Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche the reputation as one of the best tournament venues in France.
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Le Touquet (La Foret) - La Forêt course at Le Touquet is set beautifully among pine trees which provides a calm and peaceful environment for all golfers whatever their handicap.
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St Leon-Rot (St Leon) - You’ll need a long and accurate game to tame the St Leon course at St Leon-Rot and you’ll also need a soft touch around these greens...
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St Dionys - St Dionys is a course for the ball-striker and this undulating moorland layout is set on the edge of the glorious Lüneburg Heath.
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Beuerberg - There is surely no lovelier view from any golf course than Beuerberg. The backdrop of the Bavarian Alps is nothing short of spectacular and the golf itself seems almost a secondary consideration...
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St Leon-Rot (Rot) - The Rot course at St Leon-Rot can now be described as one of the best German courses after alterations in the late 90s.
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Rethmar - Created by Arnold Palmer on a 300-acre site near the city centre and close to the exhibition grounds, Rethmar is one of less than a dozen designs by the great man in all of Europe...
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Schwanhof - With impeccable course maintenance and fascinating variation from hole to hole Schwanhof is a layout that will enthrall golfers of all abilities.
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Berliner - Motzener See - Berlin Golf & Country Club at Motzener See is an open parkland course which has been described as having both American and Scottish influences...
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Fleesensee (Schloss) - 63-hole Fleesensee Golf & Country Club lies in the heart of the spectacular Mecklenburg lake district and American Stan Eby designed their flagship course, Schloss, which is all about risk and reward.
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Bad Griesbach (Brunnwies) - Designed by Bernhard Langer, the Brunnwies course is one of six 18-hole layouts at the enormous Hartl Golf Resort at Bad Griesbach.
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Krefelder - With its tree-lined fairways and relatively modest 6,082-metre length, Krefelder requires accuracy rather than length from the tee...
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Lubeck-Travemunder - Lübeck-Travemünder Golf Club, with its historical clubhouse is one of Germany’s oldest courses and the club was founded way back in 1921.
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Winston (Links) - The Canadian architect David Krause certainly moved the earth to create the Winston Links course, which is set in sandy landscape, and is described as an inland links.
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Hardenberg (Niedersachsen) - The signature hole on the Niedersachsen course is the par three 11th and its island green complex is shaped like a boar’s head, exactly as depicted on the Hardenberg family crest.
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Habsberg - Graham Marsh, one of Australia’s most successful golfers, designed the course at Golf Club Am Habsberg and Colin Montgomerie opened the new layout with a cracking drive...
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Schloss Wilkendorf (Sandy Lyle) - The Sandy Lyle course at Schloss Wilkendorf is set in rolling secluded Brandenburg countryside to the north east of Berlin. The former Masters champion designed it with a little help from European Golf Design.
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Hubbelrath (East) - Hubbelrath Golf Club was founded in 1961 and it’s located a mere 10kms east of Düsseldorf City Centre on 90 hectares of heavily forested and rather hilly land.
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St Eurach - Situated to the south of Munich in the shadow of the Bavarian Alps, St Eurach Golf Club was designed by the celebrated golf architect Donald Harradine and it’s routed through a heavily forested landscape…
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Schloss Ludersburg (Lakes) - The Jack Nicklaus-designed Lakes course at Schloss Lüdersburg Golf Resort opened in 1999 and it’s fashioned in an American links-like style with vast expanses of water, challenging greens and tight fairways.
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Hanau-Wilhelmsbad - Dating back to 1959, Hanau-Wilhelmsbad Golf Club has hosted several national German championships and is one of the country’s leading courses.
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Gut Kaden (B & C) - Set in extensive grounds, with an old manor house as a grand clubhouse, the three nines at Gut Kaden are named – in somewhat uninspiring fashion – A, B and C.
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Bad Griesbach (Beckenbauer) - The “Kaiser’s” playground is the nickname for the Beckenbauer course at the massive Hartl Golf Resort at Bad Griesbach.
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Costa Navarino (Dunes) - In 2010, the Dunes course was the inaugural signature 18-hole layout to open in Greece, the first of several intended courses to be constructed at the spectacular new Costa Navarino resort.
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Porto Carras (Olive Grove) - Originally designed by Geoff Cornish and Bill Robinson, the course at Porto Carras was renamed "Olive Grove" and given a total makeover and extended to 18 holes by David Mathews in 2002.
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Crete - Designed by Bob Hunt from PGA Design Consulting in the UK, the course at Crete Golf Club was laid out to USGA standard over quite difficult, rugged mountain terrain.
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Corfu - The course at Corfu Golf Club blends seamlessly into the picturesque Ropa Valley and the cleverly designed hazards make it a solid and fair test for both low and high handicap players.
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Glyfada - Wedged between the coast and the mountains, Glyfada was for many years the undisputed premier golf course in Greece and played proud host to the 1979 World Cup of Golf...
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Verdura (East) - The more undulating East course at Verdura features a number of outstanding holes and the waterside 6th is described with good reason as the golf resort’s “Postage Stamp” hole.
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Is Arenas - Set close to the sea on the beautiful island of Sardinia, Is Arenas plays through a forest of pine and juniper. It’s a cleverly designed Robert von Hagge layout.
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Bogogno (Conte) - Del Conte is one of two Robert von Hagge courses at the impressive golf club Circolo Golf Bogogno.
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Pevero - Pevero is located in Sardinia's chic Costa Smeralda region. The Aga Khan commissioned the course and it's one of RTJ’s finest and most daring designs.
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Bogogno (Bonora) - Bogogno Golf Club, or Circolo Golf Bogogno, is one of Europe’s most impressive 36-hole golf resorts. With two contrasting Robert von Hagge-designed courses, it’s a destination well worth knowing.
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San Domenico - The person to receive most plaudits for the San Domenico project should be shaper Brian Jorgensen as he moved plenty of earth on a largely level, featureless landscape to lay out a wonderful array of seaside fairways...
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Milano - Founded in 1928, Milano Golf Club is one of Italy’s most prestigious clubs and the course is routed through glorious parkland on fairly flat terrain.
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Is Molas (Championship) - Host to the Italian Open on four occasions, Is Molas completes the triangle of top-notch golf courses on the delicious Italian island of Sardinia.
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Terme di Saturnia - Terme di Saturnia is where American Ron Fream and his Golfplan team made their latest mark on the design front in 2007 with the introduction of a new course.
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Roma Acquasanta - Laid out over an enchanting parkland landscape, with views of the Via Appia Antica Roman aqueduct arches and ancient tomb of Cecilia Metella, Roma Acquasanta seems suspended in a time warp...
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Olgiata (West) - All 27 holes at Olgiata are set in sumptuous parkland surroundings where the terrain is mildly undulating and fairways are separated by avenues of magnificent mature trees.
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Bergamo-L'Albenza (Blue and Yellow) - The original eighteen holes at Bergamo-L’Albenza Golf Club were formed by C K Cotton in the early 1960s and this course was just one of several Italian layouts that he designed or restyled around that time.
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Venezia - Routed around the Venetian fortress of San Nicolo, Venezia is a delightful, eclectic amalgam of parkland-cum-links, with lovely tree-lined fairways laid out on sandy soil...
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Hilversumsche - Hilversumsche Golf Club is one of the most exclusive clubs in the Netherlands but thankfully you can still get a midweek game if you book in advance.
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Noord-Brabantsche - Toxandria - Noord-Brabantsche Golf Club Toxandria was founded in 1928 and Englishman John Morrison laid out a nine-hole course on a small parcel of sandy heathland located between Breda and Tilburg.
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Lage Vuursche - The Golfsociëteit De Lage Vuursche layout was fashioned by Kyle Phillips and it opened for play in the year 2000.
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Hoge Kleij - The Hoge Kleij golf course opened for play in 1985 and during its construction, a number of Bronze Age and Iron Age items were found on site...
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Goyer (North) - The North course at Goyer is very flat, as you would expect in this part of the world, with clever use of water, waste bunkers and mounding at many of the holes.
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Broekpolder - Frank Pennink originally designed Booekpolder Golf Club and he turned a flat, featureless landscape into an exciting, open parkland course. It’s now something of a modern Dutch master.
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Herkenbosch - Herkenbosch Golf and Country Club lies on the edge of the De Meinweg National Park and it's a beautiful forest course, hewn out of a dense pine forest...
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Het Rijk Nunspeet (North and East) - It’s one of four golf complexes in the Netherlands that operate under the banner of Het Rijk “The Empire” and its tight, tree-lined holes are laid out within woodland to the south of the small market town of Nunspeet.
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Miklagard - Miklagard is one of Norway’s best golf courses, opening for play in 2002 with every intention to rank alongside the world’s top courses. And it’s doing well, it is already in Scandinavia’s Top 10.
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Oslo - Oslo GolfKlubb is the oldest golf club in Norway which dates back to 1924. The course is set on the banks of Lake Bogstad which edge the layout on two sides.
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Moss & Rygge - Englishman Jeremy Turner designed the course at Moss & Rygge and the layout is routed across former farmland which lies close to the dramatic Oslofjord bay.
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Notteroy - Jeremy Turner has designed and upgraded a large number of Scandinavian courses and he was the architect behind Nøtterøy which opened in 2000.
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Bjaavann - The course here at Bjaavann Golf Club opened in 2006 and it’s based around Lake Bjaavann, with the opening trio and closing pair of holes hugging the edge of the water.
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Atlungstad - Located on the shore of the largest lake in Norway, Atlungstad started out as the idea of a local goldsmith. He used the fields as his golf practice area, and one day he had a bit of an epiphany...
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Kongsvinger - There are two elements that make Kongsvinger Golfklubb stand out. Firstly, each hole is lined with tall firs creating separate corridors...
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Meland - Meland is already receiving accolades as one of Europe's best new venues and the course looks good, with a unique setting among forests, lakes and mountains.
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Stavanger - The holes at Stavanger Golf Club are tree-lined and relatively tight so precision off the tee are the watchwords here.
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Larvik - Larvik Golf Club is set on the edge of Larvik Fjord and is naturally influenced by sea breezes.
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Holtsmark - The pay and play golf facility at Holtsmark is Scandinavian woodland golf at its very best, with tree-lined fairways laid out along ridgelines and across a number of steep valleys...
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Losby (Østmork) - Losby hosted the European Ladies Tour SAS Masters in 2007 – true recognition that the Østmork course is one of the very best in Norway.
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Borre (New) - Borre (New) is a 6,891-yard par 72 course set in a gently undulating park and forest landscape around the Semb Manor House beside Lake Borre.
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Vestfold - Vestfold Golf Club was established in 1958 so it’s one of the oldest in Norway. Jeremy Turner updated the open parkland course and his new layout opened in 2002.
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Sorknes - Measuring 6,715 yards from the back markers, the 18-hole course at Sorknes Golf Club lies within a beautiful pine forest in the valley of Osterdalen...
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Narvik - The village of Skjomen lies a few hundred kilometers to the north of the Arctic Circle and this is where you’ll find Narvik Golf Club, one of the world’s northernmost 18-hole golf courses.
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Stiklestad - Stiklestad Golf Club is considered by many to be one of the most challenging courses in Norway, as it is quite narrow and the penal rough and trees lining the fairways can quickly ruin a good score.
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Arendal & Omegn - The Arendal & Omegn Golf Club is a real Norwegian golfing success story as the club’s climb to prominence in the national course rankings is all down to the hard work and fund raising efforts of its core membership.
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Byneset (North) - Within the Trondheim municipality you will find Byneset Golf Club, the only course in Norway designed by the firm of Donald Steel.
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Hauger - Situated just north east of Oslo, the 18-hole golf course at Hauger Golf Club is yet another modern classic from the drawing board of Jeremy Turner.
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Rosa - Architect Hans-Georg Erhardt moved 1,000,000 cubic metres of earth to build Rosa Golf Club. It may not be the most natural but it’s certainly exciting.
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Modry Las - The Gary Player Design company has been busy on a number of projects in central Europe lately and the new Modry Las golf course in north west Poland is positive proof of its activities.
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First Warsaw - First Warsaw Golf & Country Club is the most historically important club in Poland’s recent history as it was the first to begin the process of establishing Poland as a modern Central European golfing centre.
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Postołowo - Gdansk - Gdansk Golf & Country Club, or Postolowo Golf Club as it is known, is not only one of Poland’s elder statesmen but also one of Europe’s longest layouts, stretching to a massive 7,758 yards from the back tees.
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Sand Valley - Routed over a naturally sandy site within a modern 250-acre residential estate, the Sand Valley Golf & Country Club course experienced significant difficulties during development before finally opening its tees in 2009.
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Toya - Jeremy Pern has fashioned a links-like course at Toya Golf & Country Club Wroclaw and it looks more mature than its tender age.
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Krakow Valley - Laid out over a forested, undulating landscape, Krakow Valley’s generous, wide rolling fairways are tempered by massive, steep-faced greenside bunkers that defend par on many of the putting surfaces.
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Sierra - Sierra Golf Club was formed in 2002 near the small town of Wejherowo, the spiritual capital of the Kaszuby region in northern Poland...
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Binowo Park - Located just outside the Baltic seaport of Szczecinm, the 27-hole golf facility at Binowo Park was formerly part of the farm that still produces cereals and potatoes...
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Amber Baltic (Championship) - The Championship course at Amber Baltic Golf Club lies within the Woliñski National Park on the Baltic island of Wolin, way up in the extreme north west of Poland, close to the German border.
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V Golf Club - The course at the V Golf Club is set within a 350-acre estate adjacent to Le Meridien Hotel at Villon, which is located some 20 kilometres to the northwest of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania.
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Paul Tomita - Located in the small Transylvanian village of Pianu de Jos, Paul Tomita Golf Club was created by, and named after, Romania’s finest golfing exponent, the late Pavel Tomitza.
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Oceanico (Victoria) - After an investment of €18m in 2004, the fifth course at Vilamoura opened. Arnold Palmer designed the Victoria and it’s a big course...
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Quinta do Lago (South) - American architect William Mitchell raised the bar in terms of golf course architecture here at Quinta do Lago by importing American standard greens, tees and bunkers.
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Oceanico (Faldo) - Faldo’s course at Amendoeira calls for golfers to play strategically, avoiding the desert scrub bunkers, rocky outcrops, wandering water hazards and olive trees that lurk in wait for errant shots.
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Penha Longa (Atlantico) - The Atlântico, designed by Robert Trent Jones Jnr, opened in 1992 and received such acclaim that it played host to the Portuguese Open in 1994.
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Quinta da Ria - Quinta da Ria is an excellent new course set in an unspoilt and quieter part of the Algarve and we thoroughly recommend the trip east.
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Quinta do Peru - Quinta do Peru is located to the south of Lisbon and it’s one of the greatest courses in the area. It’s also one of the most exclusive, but thankfully you can still get a game if you book in advance.
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Penina (Championship) - Penina was built on land that was originally used for growing rice and it was the Algarve's first course which was fashioned by Sir Henry Cotton.
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Santo da Serra (Machico & Desertas) - Pray for a clear day when you play Santo da Serra. Perched at some 1,000 feet above sea level, the golf course can literally have its head in the clouds.
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Vale do Lobo (Royal) - Vale do Lobo is the Algarve’s most senior golf resort, founded in 1962 and it is currently the largest luxury resort in Portugal.
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Oceanico (O'Connor) - The future is bright for the Christy O'Connor Jnr. course at Amendoeira, which opened in October 2008, in fact, the architect “wanted one hole where it was just oranges”…
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Quinta da Marinha - The championship course at Quinta da Marinha is set within a luxury 5-star resort close to Cascais, a former fishing village on the Estoril coast that’s now a modern day affluent suburb of the Portuguese capital.
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Vale do Lobo (Ocean) - The Ocean course at Vale do Lobo is perhaps the understudy to the Royal layout, but nevertheless it’s a solid sandy course and it stands up on its own two feet.
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Vidago Palace - The original 9-hole Philip Mackenzie Ross golf course at Vidago Palace was remodeled by the Cameron Powell design company during the refit of the hotel and opened for play in 2010.
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Palmares (Praia & Lagos) - Palmares Golf is billed as the golfing “jewel in the crown of the Algarve” and it’s certainly an eclectic golf course, which originally opened in 1975, with distinct flavours.
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Estela - Estela is a wonderful golf course with all of the features expected of a true seaside ‘links’ golf course and will be a great test for any standard of golfer.
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Vila Sol (Prime & Challenge) - Donald Steel created Vila Sol without the need for excessive contouring or the creation of unnatural hazards.
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Aroeira 1 - Frank Pennink, the master architect, designed Aroeira 1 in 1972 and the course hosted the 1996 and 1997 Portuguese Opens.
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Oporto - The eldest club in Portugal – and fourth oldest in Continental Europe after Pau, Biarritz and Royal Antwerp – was renamed Oporto Golf Club in 1901 and it remained an exclusive British preserve for the next three decades.
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Palheiro - Palheiro is set magically within a pine forest and is bordered by glorious botanical woodlands. Factor in its elevated location, high above the town of Funchal and you have the recipe for perfect golf.
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Quinta do Lago (Laranjal) - The Laranjal course is the new kid on the block at Quinta do Lago and the reputation of their third course already is growing.
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Belas - Located between the town of Belas and Vale de Lobo – a short drive (by car) from Lisbon city centre – is the pretty golf course of Belas Clube de Campo.
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Aroeira 2 - Situated within a preservation area, on the Setubal Peninsula, lies Aroeira Golf Resort. A 900-acre paradise for golfers and non-golfers alike.
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Quinta do Lago (North) - The South course at Quinta do Lago is the layout that most avid golfers rush to play, but the North course, formerly called the Ria Formosa, named after the Nature Reserve, is definitely worth savouring.
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Oceanico (Laguna) - The Oceânico Laguna course is laid out over flat, low-lying ground and this well bunkered layout with a strong links-like feel is very different in style to the other Vilamoura courses.
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Ribagolfe (1) - Measuring 7,370 yards from the tips, the Ribagolfe No.1 course was designed by Peter Townsend of European Golf Design with tournament play in mind.
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Pinheiros Altos (Pines & Olives) - Pinheiros Altos is a course in two parts. The front nine is routed across an umbrella pine clad sandy hillside and the back nine, in complete contrast, is routed across comparatively open flatter parkland...
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Vale da Pinta - The Vale da Pinta golf course, set in the Pestana Golf Resort near Carvoeiro in the Western Algarve, is a course that accepts the ‘quality’ label with ease.
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Morgado - Golfe do Morgado is one of the newer courses to be laid out in the Algarve and it’s also one of the regions tougher layouts.
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Gramacho - American Ron Fream originally laid out nine holes in the early 1970s before the Gramacho course was subsequently doubled in size to a full 18-hole layout.
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Oceanico (Pinhal) - The Pinhal is one of the older courses at the sprawling Oceanico Vilamoura golf complex, opening as a Frank Pennink-designed layout in the mid-1970s.
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Golden Eagle - Golden Eagle is an excellent golf course that is well managed and maintained. Take your time and soak up the sunshine and beautiful surroundings.
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Pestovo - The English father and son team of Dave and Paul Thomas designed Pestovo as a Russian championship course that will compete with Moscow Country Club in terms of quality and challenge.
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Tseleevo - The “ultra-luxury country club” of Tseleevo Golf & Polo Club offers invited members access to a 1,000-acre sports facility...
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Moscow - Almost half the holes at the Moscow Country Club golf course have water to contend with, especially at the signature, 576-yard par five 5th.
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San Roque (Old) - Dave Thomas and Tony Jacklin designed the Old course at San Roque and it opened for play in 1990 at an alleged cost of $1million per hole.
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Club De Campo Villa de Madrid (Negro) - On the outskirts of Madrid lies the famous Club de Campo Villa de Madrid, perhaps the largest sports club in Europe with more than 10,000 members.
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Neguri - Neguri, or Real Sociedad de Golf de Neguri to give the club its full title, was originally founded way back in 1911 but today’s course was laid out in 1961 and it’s located in Getxo, a few kilometres north west of Bilbao.
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San Roque (New) - The New course at San Roque may be one of the finest new resort courses in Europe and certainly one of the most beautiful.
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Alcanada - Set on the bay of Alcudia with stunning views across to the lighthouse on Alcanada Island from which the course takes name, this is a true Robert Trent Jones Jnr gem.
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Real Sociedad Hipica Espanola Club de Campo (South) - The South course at the Real Sociedad Hípica Española Club de Campo was created in 2001 and the major difference between it and the longer North course is its hillier layout.
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Emporda (Forest) - These pine-flanked holes of the Forest course at Emporda Golf Resort are amongst the most lovely in all Spain, with bold bunkering, a sprinkling of water and many raised greens...
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El Prat (Blue) - Lavishly bunkered greensites represent a fearsome challenge, so you'll certainly need your ‘A’ game intact to conquer El Prat's strategic and delightfully sculpted Blue course.
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Golf del Sur - Golf del Sur consists of three loops of nine holes – the North, South and Links. Black volcanic sand bunkers provide an interesting and unforgettable contrast against the lush green playing surfaces.
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El Bosque - El Bosque is one of several courses designed by Robert Trent Jones during his most prolific spell in Spain from the mid-60s to mid-70s.
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El Rompido (North) - The second course at El Rompido, the North, came along in 2005 and this Álvaro Arana creation has surpassed the very high standards set by its predecessor the South course.
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Pedrena - Five-time major winner Seve Ballesteros learnt his golf here at Real Golf de Pedrena, a Harry Colt classical layout.
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PGA Catalunya (Tour) - The Tour course at the PGA de Catalunya Resort is shorter, more open and less demanding than its sibling, but its pine tree-lined fairways still have to be negotiated with care...
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Santana - Designed by Cabell B. Robinson and opened for play at the beginning of 2004, it has taken a year or two for Santana to become recognised as one of the Costa del Sol’s leading courses.
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Platja de Pals - Hidden away in the northeast corner of Catalunya, near the French border, the Platja de Pals course is a timeless classic routed through a dense forest of umbrella pines.
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Ulzama - Originally designed by Javier Arana in 1965, Ulzama lies in the Navarrese Valley of the same name, within an old oak forest.
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Mijas (Los Lagos) - One of several Robert Trent Jones designs that are strung out along the Costa del Sol, Mijas is a marvelous golf complex offering two wonderfully contrasting 18-hole courses.
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Arcos Gardens - The course at Arcos Gardens Golf & Country Club was constructed by American company Landmark, designers of courses like PGA West, Palm Beach Polo and the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island.
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La Cala (America) - La Cala has overtaken La Manga in southeast Spain as the largest golf resort in the country.
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Montecastillo - Montecastillo is one of the most popular golf resorts in the world and they played host to the Volvo Masters Andalucia for five consecutive years beginning in 1997 when Lee Westwood won the event.
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La Manga (West) - The West course at La Manga club is totally different to the other two layouts. Gone are the palms and in come the pines, doglegs and tight, tricky holes.
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Aloha - Created in 1975 at the start of the Spanish golf course development boom, Club de Golf Aloha has remained one of Spain’s top tracks for over thirty years...
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Las Americas - The landscape gently slopes towards the coast, offering some pleasant elevation changes, particularly on the outward half of Las Americas.
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Las Colinas - The fairways at Las Colinas Golf & Country Club are generally wide and forgiving and they’ve been laid out in two returning nines that twist out and back along the floor of a valley...
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Bonmont - Robert Trent Jones Jnr – no stranger to Spanish course design – created Bonmont and it opened for play in 1990.
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El Cortijo - El Cortijo was the first of the numerous Canarian courses to be featured on the Top 100 website, but it certainly wasn't the last.
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Los Naranjos - Laid out on a 170-acre site adjacent to Las Brisas, complete with orange grove and river, Los Naranjos initially operated along with its next-door neighbour when it first opened in 1977.
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Maspalomas - Philip Mackenzie Ross is well known for his course design work in his native Scotland, but he also laid out the Maspalomas course on the island of Gran Canaria, six years before his death in 1974.
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Son Antem (West) - Designed by Francisco Lopez Segales, the West course at Son Antem is a good deal tighter than the East, with trees lining many of the fairways.
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Fontanals - Spanish architect Ramon Aspinosa created Fontanals in 1994 and it extends to 7,100 yards, routed over pleasantly undulating terrain with the Pyrenees as a magnificent backdrop.
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Torrequebrada - Torrequebreda golf course was one of the first designs of celebrated Spanish architect José Gancedo back in the mid 1970s...
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Hacienda del Alamo - "The gently undulating terrain together with the original orchards and groves provide Hacienda del Álamo with many opportunities for enjoyable and interesting golf..."
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Valle del Este - Valle del Este’s desert undulations have been used to great effect by architect José Canales with most tee boxes played from an elevated position where the landing area for the tee shot is wide and in full view...
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Rio Real - The oldest course in the Marbella area, Rio Real was built on a compact site back in 1965 when Javier Arana laid out an 18-hole course on the banks of the Real River...
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La Cala (Asia) - With a landscape similar to that on the hilly America course, there are many pleasant elevation changes over the modest 6,500-yard length of La Cala's Asia course.
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Buenavista - Buenavista is unashamedly holiday golf at its very best and should be on every visiting golfers itinerary when holidaying in Tenerife.
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Los Flamingos - The 18-hole Los Flamingos layout is part of a large, up-market residential and hotel estate located just outside Marbella.
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Tecina - Tecina is one of the most spectacular courses in the Canary Islands, occupying a sensational cliff top setting within a former banana plantation on the south side of the small island of La Gomera.
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Barcelona - Club de Golf de Barcelona (formerly Masia Bach) was created by José Maria Olazábal and it's laid out over rather hilly terrain on the edge of the Penedes wine growing region to the north west of Barcelona...
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La Manga (South) - The South course at La Manga Club was where the Spanish Open was held during the 70s. It’s a spacious and long layout set on fairly flat terrain. Bring your driver.
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Son Vida - Majorca or Mallorca is the largest of the Spanish Balearic Islands and Son Vida is the oldest golf course on the island.
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Lerma - Lerma the creation of Spanish architect, José Gancedo, who made good use of the natural Castellan terrain to fashion 18-holes in total sympathy with their surroundings...
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Puntiro - Puntiro is the first Majorcan course to come from the Nicklaus Design stable. The layout is intelligently routed across a mature 164 acres where specimen pines, olive and carob trees flank many fairways.
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Son Muntaner - Son Muntaner is one of three 18-hole layouts at the Arabella Golf and Spa Resort in Palma, Mallorca.
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La Quinta (A & C) - Situated close to the fashionable resort of Puerto Banus on the Costa del Sol, La Quinta Golf & Country Club opened in 1989 with an 18-hole course that has since been extended into a 27-hole golf complex...
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La Manga (North) - The North course at La Manga Club is the more approachable of the three resort courses. Palm-lined, slightly hilly and well-bunkered, it’s where to make a decent score.
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Desert Springs (Indiana) - The Indiana course at Desert Springs is where the first full-blown Arizona/California desert themed layout – described by some as “a Wild West resort course” – first collided with the continent of Europe...
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Malaga - The oldest course on the Costa Del Sol, Malaga’s fairways were first laid out sometime after the formation of Málaga Golf Club in 1926 by none other than Harry Colt.
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Sant Cugat - Club de Golf Sant Cugat is hemmed in by city housing but it has resolutely repelled all residential encroachment over the years, affording appreciative golfers in Barcelona with an old-fashioned golfing retreat...
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Almenara (Pinos & Alcornoques) - Dave Thomas laid out the 27-holes at Almenera in the late 1990s and he made a fine job of routing a series of tight fairways over hilly terrain...
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Castillo de Gorraiz - Situated just to the north of Pamplona, in the heart of the Basque country, the golf course of Castillo de Gorraiz is an integral part of the city’s leisure facilities...
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La Moraleja (2) - Golf La Moraleja No.2 course is long – over 7,000 yards in length – with only two of the ten par fours measuring less than 400 yards.
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Mediterraneo - The 18-hole layout at the Club de Campo del Mediterráneo embodies all that is good about parkland Spanish golf.
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Novo Sancti Petri (A) - With three 18-hole courses on a substantial 990-acre residential development, Club de Golf Novo Sancti Petri is one of the biggest golf resorts in Spain.
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Zaudin - One of only a handful of Gary Player golf course designs in Western Europe, Club Zaudin Golf burst onto the Spanish golf scene in the early 1990s.
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Alcaidesa (Links) - The Links course at the Alcaidesa Golf Resort was inaugurated in 1990 then remodeled in 1999 to improve its playability by widening fairways and ironing out some of the more severe undulations on the greens.
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Font del Llop - Opened in May 2010 and designed by Blake Stirling and Marco Martin, the layout at Font del Llop Golf Resort has the potential to become the finest golf course in the Alicante region.
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Los Arqueros - There are plenty of challenges at Los Arqueros (such as water hazards, doglegged fairways, out of bounds, multi-tiered greens, uphill and downhill holes) to keep golfers concentrating...
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Marbella Golf & Country Club - Laid out on a difficult, hilly site just outside the fashionable resort, the Marbella Golf & Country Club course routing makes the very best use of the available landscape...
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Guadalmina (Sur) - Designed by Javier Arana back in the mid 1960s, Guadalmina South course is the second oldest on the south coast of Spain,
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Atalaya (New) - “In-the-know” golfers regard both Atalaya courses as two of the most understated, esteemed tracks on the Costa del Sol.
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Alhaurin - Situated in the mountains between Mijas and Coín, the spectacular 18 holes at Alhaurin offer some of the most challenging golf to be found anywhere on the Costa del Sol.
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Atalaya (Old) - Atalaya Golf and Country Club is one of the more established golf facilities on the Costa del Sol and it is used as the headquarters for the European PGA.
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El Paraiso - El Paraiso was laid out in the early 1970s by “Black Knight” Gary Player and renowned architect Ron Kirby, back in the days when they were involved in a course design partnership.
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La Canada - You have to feel some sympathy for a course like La Canada where it is completely overshadowed by near neighbours Sotogrande, Valderrama and San Roque...
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Miraflores - Situated not far from the Mediterranean coast, midway between Fuengirola and Marbella, Miraflores is a great family golf course, ideally suited for holiday golf...
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La Duquesa - La Duquesa is one of the more recent Robert Trent Jones Snr courses on the Costa del Sol, opening in 1989...
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La Moraleja (1) - Located in an affluent area to the north of Madrid, Golf La Moraleja 1 was created by Jack Nicklaus and Desmond Muirhead, the Golden Bear’s partner on many golf course development projects...
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Villamartin - The golf course at Villamartin has been cleverly routed over the natural terrain, which is pleasantly undulating.
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Costa Ballena Ocean (Olivos & Palmeras) - Located close to the centre of the nation’s sherry region, Costa Ballena Ocean offers a number of leisure and sporting activities, including swimming, horse riding, windsurfing, tennis and, of course, golf.
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Islantilla (Verde & Azul) - Designed by Enrique Canales and Luis Recasens in 1992, Islantilla was considered good enough to host the Spanish Masters tournament in 1995...
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La Herreria - La Herrería sits beside the magnificent – and physically dominating – Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial...
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Mijas (Los Olivos) - The main features of the Los Olivos course are, as its name suggests, the olive groves that line many of the fairways and green complexes.
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Montenmedio - One of the great, unspoiled courses in the south west of Spain, the Montenmedio Golf and Country Club sits on a wonderful site where beautiful parkland fairways weave their way over lovely rolling terrain.
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Roda - Opened in 2006 and fashioned by Dave Thomas across relatively flat terrain featuring numerous lakes, Roda is set to become a challenging alternative to La Manga.
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Guadalhorce - Very much a course of two halves, Guadalhorce’s front nine are laid out in a classic European format over undulating terrain while the flatter back nine are routed around water hazards in an American style.
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San Sebastian - Real Golf Club de Golf de San Sebastián was inaugurated in 1910 and the club moved to their present location in the mid 1960s when French professional Pierre Hirigoyen laid out the course...
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Pula - A decade after it opened in 1995, Pula was extensively remodeled to transform the golf course from a resort-style layout to a championship course capable of holding European Tour events.
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Guadalmina (Norte) - Guadalmina lies right at the heart of Spain’s “Costa Del Golf” on the Costa del Sol.
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Costa Adeje - A decade after José "Pepe" Gancedo fashioned Golf del Sur on the island of Tenerife in the late 1980s, he created another 18-hole layout along the coast at Costa Adeje.
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Marbella Club - Marbella Club is one of the best mountain courses on the Costa del Sol. With some spectacular elevated tee shots, it’s a Dave Thomas special and a true Spanish gem.
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Estepona - The Estepona golf course lies in the shadow of the Sierra Bermeja Mountains and golfers enjoy sea views from nearly every hole.
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Salobre (South) - The South course at Salobre Golf Resort comprises 18 holes of a 36-hole golf complex within a residential estate near Maspalomas on the south coast of Gran Canaria.
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Andratx - Andratx is spectacular, challenging and a complete golfing one-off with blind shots galore, unfeasibly elevated teeing positions and dramatically doglegged fairways.
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Frosaker - Frösåker is situated on the northern shore of lovely Lake Mälaren and, because of its location on low-lying land so close to the lake, small ponds come into play at more than half the holes.
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Hills - Built with big tournaments in mind, Hills Golf Club has been in discussion with the European Tour with a view to hosting the 2018 Ryder Cup, which is scheduled to be played in continental Europe that year.
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PGA of Sweden National (Links) - It’s reckoned the Swedish PGA complex just outside Malmö took over ten years of planning and construction before the new 18-hole PGA National Links course emerged in the summer of 2009.
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Elisefarm - When it debuted in the summer of 2005, the 18-hole layout at Elisefarm Golf Club was the first Hawtree golf design in Sweden since 1929.
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Bro Hof Slott (Castle) - Robert Trent Jones Jnr designed the Castle course at Bro Hof Slott Golf Club and it opened for play in 2009. It’s kept from the limelight by the stellar Stadium course, but the Castle should also be sampled when visiting Bro.
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Vallda - Opened in 2009, the course at Vallda Golf and Country Club was fashioned by Hawtree Design in a classic British style, inspired by London’s heathland. With fescue seeded playing surfaces, Hawtree has created the feel good factor.
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Kristianstad (Ostra) - The East course (Östra) at Kristianstad Golf Club is one of Sweden’s elder statesmen and is located at Åhus on a soft and gently undulating landscape.
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Bokskogens (Old) - Laid out on the shores of Lake Yddingen, Bokskogen Old course was the venue for the European Boys Team Championship in 2006 and big tournaments are commonplace at this golf club.
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Vidbynas (Axa) - The Axa course at Vidbynäs Golf Club opened for play in 2004 and it was designed by American architects Brian Curley and Lee Schmidt...
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Torekovs - You’ll find the course at Torekov Golf Club at the end of the Bjäre peninsula, nine miles to the west of the charming old town of Båstad on Sweden’s west coast.
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St Arild - The course at St Arild Golf Club measures 6,956 yards and it’s laid out over a gently rolling landscape with relatively wide fairways winding their way around several small ponds and stands of trees...
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Vidbynas (South) - The South course at Vidbynäs Golf Club opened soon after the Axa in 2004. Designed by Brian Curley and Lee Schmidt, Curley reckons Vidbynäs is “a special golf experience in a truly special place”.
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Rya - The seaside course of Rya Golf Club is one of Sweden’s oldest, dating to 1934, and offers stunning views of the Öresund. Hawtree Limited has recently upgraded the course including the construction of three new holes.
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Omberg - Omberg was designed by Pierre Fulke and is routed alongside Vättern, Sweden's second largest lake.
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Gronhogen - Three-time European Tour winner Pierre Fulke revamped Grönhögen in 2004 and it reopened the following year...
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Varbergs (Vastra) - Varbergs Golf Club dates back to the 1950s but its two 18-hole courses are of more recent vintage. The Ostra (East) course debuted in 1976 and the Västra (West) was unveiled in 1992...
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Degeberga-Widtskofle - Degeberga-Widtsköfle Golf Club opened for play in 1990 and its springy heathland fairways are a joy to play on, even though they do rise and fall with regularity over some testing terrain.
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Arlandastad (Masters) - Host to the Scandinavian Masters in 2007, the parkland Masters course at Arlandastad Golf Club opened in 1993 and was joined by the opening of the New course in 2001. This 36-hole facility is one of Sweden’s most popular and progressive.
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Goteborgs - Göteborgs, or Gothenburg in English, was founded in 1904 and lays claim to being Sweden’s oldest golf club. Now located in Askim, Goteborg is a parkland course with a twist of the seaside.
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Kallfors - The course at Kallfors Golf Club opened for play in 1999 and was designed by the man behind Frosaker, Swedish architect Sune Linde. Elevated tees and big undulating greens are key features of the rolling Kallfors course.
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Svartinge - Svartinge Golf Club is one of Peter Nordwall’s more recent creations, opening in 2001, and it sits in prime golfing country just outside the Swedish capital...
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Geneva - Golf de Geneve is the premier course in the Geneva region and it was designed by Robert Trent Jones, opening for play in 1972. It is set most beautifully with stunning panoramic views across Lake Geneva.
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Lausanne - Lausanne Golf Club's fairways plunge dramatically up and down through the avenues of trees, which occasionally open up to provide thrilling glimpses of Lake Geneva and the Alps.
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Sempachersee (Woodside) - The Woodside course was the first of two 18-hole layouts to be built before the addition of the Lakeside course transformed Sempachersee into the largest golf complex in the country.
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Crans-sur-Sierre - Perched at high altitude on a lush mountain plateau in the Alps, Crans-sur-Sierre Golf Club has to be the most spectacularly scenic tournament venue in the world.
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Schonenberg - The Harradine design company has undertaken well over 100 golf projects throughout Germany and Switzerland and the 18-hole course at Schönenberg Golf & Country Club is one of them.
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Vuissens - Vuissens Golf Club is one of Jeremy Pern’s Swiss creations and it opened with an initial six holes in 2001, seven years after its current owners acquired Château de Vuissens.
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Ascona - Golf Club Patriziale Ascona was founded in the late 1920s as Golf Club Ascona-Locarno and the course is owned and run by the local city fathers.
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Wylihof - The par 73 course at Wylihof Golf Club is the nation’s longest, measuring 7,242 yards from the back tees, and it’s an open, largely level layout with water only in play occasionally.
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Zurich-Zumikon - One of the top private facilities in the country, Golf & Country Club Zürich at Zumikon attracts discerning golfers in the area the same way as Geneva does in the west of Switzerland.
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National Antalya - The National Golf Club Antalya is a bit special even though it’s relatively new. This truly magnificent course is routed thoughtfully across gently rolling terrain and through mature pine and eucalyptus trees.
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Montgomerie Maxx Royal - The Montgomerie Maxx Royal (formerly known as the Papillon Golf Club) is the third EGD project in the Belek area with Colin Montgomerie marketed as the course’s attention-grabbing headline designer.
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Antalya (Pasha) - The Pasha course winds its way through the pine forest and compliments the Sultan beautifully.
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Gloria (Old) - The Old course is one of the eldest Turkish golf courses and has become a true favourite for thousands of travelling golfers.
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Gloria (New) - Opened in late 2005, the New course at the Gloria Golf Resort is an undulating tree-lined layout that is challenging yet fair with many unforgettable holes.
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Bled (King's) - An interesting fact about Slovenia's Bled Golf & Country Club is that in 1997 a "Bird-watching Ryder Cup" was held around the course and 44 different species of birds were spotted amongst the trees and fairways.
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Reykjavik (Grafarholt) - Although Reykjavik Golf Club was founded in 1934, the Grafarholt course opened for play in 1963 and a Swede, Niels Skjold, designed it.
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Leynir - Akranes - Leynir Golf Club in Akranes is the home course of Birgir Leifur Hafþórsson, Iceland’s only representative on the European Tour to date.
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Sudurnesja (Holmsvollur) - The Hólmsvöllur course at Suðurnesja was constructed on farmland and involved the removal of stonewalls and boulders before the fairways could be shaped.
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Oddur (Urrida) - Oddur Golf Club was designed as a member’s track rather than a tough layout, but the club hosted the Icelandic Golf Championship in 2006 and players then realised it wasn’t as easy as they imagined.
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Vestmannaeyja - Golf was first played here at Vestmannaeya Golf Club in 1938. Today’s 18-hole layout is a short but spectacular par 70, which measures 5,820 yards.
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Reykjavik (Korpa) - Hannes Thorsteinsson, the prolific Icelandic architect, designed the second course at the venerable Reykjavik Golf Club and the Korpa opened its eighteen tees for play in 1997.
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Thorlakshofn - Thorlakshofn Golf Club lies along the shore on black sandy terrain and represents the best example of a links course in Iceland.
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Kidjaberg - Kidjaberg Golf Club is located about an hour to the east of Reykjavik and has been an 18-holer since 2005. The golf course lies on the banks of the glacial river Hvitá, offering beautiful views and it’s no pushover as the Icelandic Championship was held here in 2010.
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Akureyri - The course at Akureyri Golf Club is called Jaðarsvöllur and it’s situated in the north east of Iceland at the head of the long Eyjafiordur Bay.
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European Lakes - Laid out amongst the rolling hills of the Zselic Natural Reserve, not too far from the Croatian border, European Lakes has an out-and-back routing with, as its name suggests, a number of holes featuring ponds...
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Kikuoka - Situated in the south east of the Grand Duchy, close to the Moselle wine making region, Kikuoka Country Club offers a 4-star hotel with pool, sauna and jacuzzi in addition to a championship 18-hole golf course.
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Gray Bear - Tále - Gray Bear was the very first 18-hole championship golf course to open in Slovakia, nearly ten years after the Velvet Divorce with the Czech Republic in 1993.
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Greenfield - The fairways are routed around an 18-acre set of lakes and ponds that are home to a wide variety of birds – hence the original name Birdland, but the property now sports a new name... Greenfield Hotel Golf & Spa.
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Royal Malta - No trip to this beautiful island would be complete without a game at the historic Royal Malta Golf Club.
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Ozo - Subtle mounding, contoured bunkering, installation of ponds and planting of trees have all helped to fashion Ozo...
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Leinster Hills - Leinster Hills Golf Club is set in the northern foothills of Mount Leinster, the highest of the Blackstairs Mountains. The club was founded in 2004 and the going may be too strenuous for some but 13 and 14 are well worth the climb.
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County Cavan - Founded in 1894, County Cavan Golf Club is one of the oldest clubs in Ireland. Although the tree-lined course measures a modest 6,164 yards from the back tees this par 70 parkland layout has been tantalising golfers for years.
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East Clare - The parkland course at East Clare Golf Club opened in 1997 and was designed by Arthur Spring. Host to the 1998 West of Ireland Seniors Championship, East Clare has developed a strong reputation since opening its tees for play.
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Woodstock - Woodstock Golf Club is laid out over 155 acres beneath the Slieve Bernagh Mountains on a free-draining site which allows it to remain open most of the year.
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Inverness Club - For those readers who associate Inverness with a certain shy little Nessie, we can tell you that the Inverness Club has absolutely nothing to do with the Loch Ness monster.
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Medinah (No.3) - Medinah Country Club was originally founded in the Roaring Twenties and the objective was to create the finest country club in America.
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Spyglass Hill - Spyglass Hill is possibly the hardest golf course on the Monterey Peninsula. The hilly land tumbles down towards the sea, leaving fairways lined with cypress and pines, laced with areas of brilliant white sand.
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Pasatiempo - The great Alister Mackenzie designed Pasatiempo and it opened for play in 1929 with a mixed exhibition foursome between Marion Hollins, Bobby Jones, Glenna Collett and Cyril Tolley.
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Chambers Bay - Chambers Bay might be one of Washington's newest golf courses – opened in June 2007 – but it is set to be a high flyer in the rankings.
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Valley Club of Montecito - Dr Alister MacKenzie designed the Valley Club of Montecito in 1929 and by Mackenzie’s standards it is one of his more modest designs.
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Honors Course - The Honors Course set in a secret valley to the north of Chattanooga and it’s another jewel in America’s golf course crown.
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Peachtree - Peachtree Golf Club is located in Atlanta and it’s the course that the Joneses built. Bobby Jones was the inspiration and Robert was the architect.
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Plainfield - The name, Plainfield Country Club, is understated and perhaps suggests an ordinary run-of-the-mill golf course but we can assure you, plain it is not.
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Myopia Hunt - Myopia Hunt Club in South Hamilton Massachusetts started out in life way back in 1882. So many of the original "horsey" members were bespectacled that they decided to call the club Myopia.
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Pete Dye - The Pete Dye Golf Club is located in Bridgeport, West Virginia and is a private club which opened in 1994. Water, in the shape of ponds, creeks or streams, comes into play at nearly half the holes.
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Rock Creek Cattle Company - The Tom Doak-designed golf course at Rock Creek Cattle Company opened for play in 2008, competing with the 10,000-foot backdrop of the sometimes snow-capped but always dramatic Flint Creek Mountain Range.
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Winged Foot (East) - Just like the West course at Winged Foot Golf Club, the East is the work of A.W. Tillinghast and it’s another of his truly brilliant creations.
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Monterey Peninsula (Shore) - The magic is the way in which the Shore course blends into the topography. It's golf ‘au naturale’ and perhaps the finest architectural swan song.
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Interlachen - During the 1930 US Open at Interlachen Country Club, Bobby Jones skimmed his ball over the water on the 9th to make a birdie which went a long way to ensuring he achieved the "Grand Slam".
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Kinloch Golf Club - One unique feature at Kinloch Golf Club is the 19th hole and no, it's not the clubhouse. It's a 188-yard par three, better known as the "settle-the-bet" one-shotter.
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Kingsley Club - The Kingsley Club, located a few miles south of Traverse City in Michigan, is laid out on links-like sandy ground. It opened for play in 2001 and is already being lauded as a modern classic.
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Victoria National - Victoria National Golf Club rose like a phoenix from the ashes of an old coal mine and it was laid out in 1998 by Tom Fazio...
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Kittansett - The Kittansett Club is situated at the end of Butler Point which extends into Buzzards Bay. Its location offers spectacular views and challenging shot making in the ever-changing wind.
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Milwaukee - Golf in Wisconsin dates back to circa 1890 and the Milwaukee Country Club is one of the oldest in the State. The current Milwaukee layout was fashioned by the hands of Harry Colt and Charles Alison in 1929.
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Newport Country Club - Newport Country Club is private, exclusive and also one of the original five founding member clubs of the United States Golf Association.
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Harbour Town - Harbour Town Golf Links is the best of the three outstanding courses at the Sea Pines Resort and Pete Dye and Jack Nicklaus designed it.
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East Lake - All profits from East Lake Golf Club go to support the local community. East Lake now stands for hope in Atlanta as well as tradition.
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Cherry Hills - If you get the chance to play this famous course, your driving distances will flatter to deceive. Denver is not called the Mile High city for nothing and Cherry Hills Country Club is certainly golf with altitude.
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Scioto - "Scioto Country Club is the course where Jack Nicklaus developed from a pudgy junior to a world beater."
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Castle Pines Golf Club - Castle Pines Golf Club is famous for the International tournament which is played under an unusual and unique scoring system which is similar to Dr Frank Stableford’s system.
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Olympia Fields (North) - Apart from the North course, Olympia Fields Country Club owns the world’s largest clubhouse, which took two years to build and cost a whopping $1.3 million way back in 1925.
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Congressional (Blue) - Founded in 1924 and officially opened by President Calvin Coolidge, the Congressional Country Club started out with a relatively straightforward 18-hole course designed by Devereux Emmet...
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Dallas National - Tom Fazio is a man on a mission, a mission to have his name tattooed on the top Texan courses, so naturally, he is the man behind the Dallas National Golf Club.
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Gozzer Ranch - Set on an elevated, forested peninsula that juts into the eastern flank of Lake Coeur d’Alene, Gozzer Ranch Golf and Lake Club is spectacular.
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Baltimore (East) - Although the club was inaugurated in 1898, the East course at Baltimore Country Club was designed by the great genius of golf course architecture, A.W. Tillinghast and it opened for play in 1926.
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Yale - Yale remains a testament to everything that is truly magical about classical, penal and strategic golf course architecture.
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Yeamans Hall - Seth Raynor designed Yeamans Hall in South Carolina in 1925. It has been called "a time capsule in Charleston" in appreciation of it embodying all that is good in traditional golf course design...
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Nanea - Nanea Golf Club is so exclusive that it shuns publicity. The course was laid out on a thick lava mantle by David McLay Kidd with the heart of British seaside links at its roots.
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Salem - The greens but more specifically the green sites are considered perfection, each of Salem’s holes are thoughtfully designed and cleverly routed and not a single hole would ever be considered weak.
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Blackwolf Run (River) - The Blackwolf Run resort is named after Black Wolf, chief of the Winnebago Indians. A composite 18 holes from both the River and Meadow Valleys courses was used when the LPGA US Open was played here in 1998.
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Crooked Stick - Crooked Stick Golf Club was one of Pete Dye’s first golf course commissions and it was constructed the year after he had spent some time in Scotland playing many of the traditional links...
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Calusa Pines - Calusa Pines Golf Club is an absolute blast and that’s official. $1m of dynamite was used to blast through tons of rock to create rare Floridian elevation changes...
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Hazeltine National - Hazeltine National Golf Club was modified by Rees Jones (son of RTJ) ahead of the 1991 US Open which turned into a historic battle between Scott Simpson and Payne Stewart.
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Alotian - Billionaire investment banker, Warren Stephens, had a golf dream and his realisation, costing a cool $18m, is the Alotian Club.
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Butler National - Butler National Golf Club was founded by multi-millionaire Paul Butler, a local businessman, and it lies to the west of the Windy City in the Oak Brook suburb of Chicago.
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Boston - The Boston Golf Club – located in Hingham, Massachusetts – is a private members golf club and has been routed across more than 300 acres of prime golfing terrain
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Colorado - Colorado Golf Club only opened its tees for play in 2007 but it’s already a nationwide hit. Designed by the famous Bill and Ben duo...
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Wannamoisett - Wannamoisett Country Club is home to a classical Donald Ross jewel set in the middle of New England. Considered to be one of Ross’s favourite designs, the par 69 layout is routed across a meagre 104 acres.
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Estancia - Estancia is set underneath the northern slope of Pinnacle Peak, Scottsdale’s most famous landmark. Tom Fazio designed this desert course amongst the huge boulder outcrops and the saguaro cacti.
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Piping Rock - Charles Blair Macdonald laid out Piping Rock in 1911 and right from the off, he was up against fierce competition because polo was the sport of the day here at Locust Valley on Long Island.
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California - The California Golf Club of San Francisco can now boast tournament measurements. From the new back tees, which are aptly called Venturi, the course can be stretched to more than 7,200 yards.
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Sutton Bay - Sutton Bay is South Dakota’s most exhilarating golf experience. The course is draped over the landforms of the Missouri River and it has many characteristics of a seaside links.
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Whispering Pines - The 7,480-yard Whispering Pines course is set within a 400-acre property bordered by lakes and meandering creeks.
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World Woods (Pine Barrens) - Golf is both a mental and physical game and you can be assured that Pine Barrens will stretch both to breaking point here at the stunning World Woods Golf Club.
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Ridgewood (West & East) - There are three nine-hole loops at Ridgewood Country Club, West, East and Center, which refer to their location relative to their fabulous Clifford Wendehack designed clubhouse.
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Essex County Club - The par five 3rd hole at Essex County Club is a monster and it is nearly as long as the sum of the first two par fours that precede it. But there’s much more to this hole than length alone.
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Colonial - "It is often said that Ben Hogan’s success was partly due to the fact that, having played his early golf at Colonial, every other course in the world was easy in comparison."
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Shoal Creek - Jack Nicklaus designed the golf course at Shoal Creek in 1977 and the Club has hosted several top-flight competitions since then.
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Birmingham (West) - Donald Ross originally designed the West course at the Country Club of Birmingham but Robert Trent Jones modified it in the 1950s and Pete Dye made further changes in the mid 1980s. Today’s course is very much in the modern rather than classic mould.
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Old Overton - Co-designed by Jerry Pate and Tom Fazio the golf course of the Old Overton Club is nestled in the wooded, rolling hills to the south of Birmingham, at the site of a former strip mine. Opened in 1993 the architects have turned the mining scars into a landscape of true beauty.
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RTJ Golf Trail - Capitol Hill (Judge) - The Judge course is the star attraction of the Alabama Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail. One of three RTJ 18-holers at Capitol Hill, the Judge is, according to a leading golf magazine, “one of the 10 public courses in America worthy of hosting the U.S. Open”.
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Greystone (Legacy) - Attractively set in deciduous woodland, the Rees Jones-designed Legacy course at Greystone Golf & Country Club opened in 2000, nine years after the Founders course. It’s an exacting test and an engaging one too, especially on the outward half which features a troublesome creek.
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Limestone Springs - Designed by former US Open Champion, Jerry Pate, Limestone Springs Golf Club opened in 1999 and is set dramatically in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, where meandering creeks, thrilling elevation changes and clever routing combine to create an absorbing round.
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Turtle Point - Another golf course from the prolific Robert Trent Jones, the Turtle Point Yacht and Country Club is one of Alabama’s private facilities, so you’ll need to befriend a member to sample one of RTJ’s 1960s designs.
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FarmLinks - Designed by Dr Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry, the course at FarmLinks Golf Club opened its tees for play in 2003 and has never looked back. Routed generously though part of a 3,500-acre hunting estate, FarmLinks continues to garner golfing admirers and for good reasons.
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Ledges - The golf course at The Ledges is a Dr Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry co-design that opened in 2000 and is set spectacularly on the highest ground in Huntsville. Despite the mountain setting the routing is not unduly arduous but an enjoyable challenge.
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RTJ Golf Trail - The Shoals (Fighting Joe) - If you like it long, and we mean seriously long, then you’ll love the RTJ Trial’s 8,092-yard Fighting Joe golf course at The Shoals. Named after the Confederate General, Joseph "Fighting Joe" Wheeler, only play this track from the tips if your nickname is “Bubba”.
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Eagleglen - Eagleglen golf course sits adjacent to the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson military facility in Anchorage. Designed by Robert Trent Jones Jnr, its fairways are laid out alongside the icy waters of Ship Creek.
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Blessings - A University of Arkansas facility, the course at Blessings Golf Club is both long and demanding, with the threatening waters of Clear Creek coming into play rather frequently during a round here.
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Chenal (Founders) - Robert Trent Jones Jnr laid out the two 18-hole courses at Chenal Country Club and the Founders layout – where water features at more than half the holes – was first to appear in 1990.
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Pleasant Valley (Blue & Yellow) - Joe Finger laid out the tree-lined 27 holes at Pleasant Valley Country Club at the end of the 1960s and it’s the Blue and Yellow nines that form the preferred 18-hole layout at this fine golf facility.
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Chenal (Bear Den Mountain) - Robert Trent Jones Jnr developed the 36-hole golf complex at Chenal Country Club over a thirteen-year period and the 18 holes on the younger Bear Den Mountain track are rated a tougher test than those on the Founders course.
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Diamante - One of nine courses on offer within a sprawling property owned by the Hot Springs Village gated community, the private 18-hole layout at Diamante Country Club is a long, demanding test of golf.
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Little Rock - Golfers have been playing at the Country Club of Little Rock for over a century – since 1902 to be precise – on a course that was recently redesigned by Keith Foster.
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Texarkana Country Club - A 1927 Golden Age design from William Langford, the course at Texarkana Country Club was restored by Ron Pritchard in recent times when he brought many of the old, grassed over bunkers back into play.
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Hardscrabble - Renovated by Jay and Carter Morrish in the late 1990s, the course at Hardscrabble Country Club dates back to the 1920s when Perry Maxwell first pegged out the fairways.
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Big Creek - Big Creek and another four lakes provide plenty of aquatic challenge at Big Creek Golf & Country Club. The course is a Tom Clark design that has garnered plenty of praise since it was unveiled in 2000.
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Forest Highlands (Canyon) - Opened in 1988, the Canyon course at Forest Highlands Golf Club was created by the design duo of Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish. It is currently the premier golf course in the State of Arizona.
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Stone Canyon - Stone Canyon is a spectacular desert course where its elevated tees, lush fairways and testing greens are routed around stone outcrops and canyons...
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Desert Forest - Desert Forest Golf Club was fashioned in 1962 by Robert "Red" Lawrence who went on to shape numerous other courses in the American Southwest
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We-Ko-Pa (Saguaro) - The Saguaro course at We-Ko-Pa Golf Club is the second course built at this stunning facility and opened in December 2006.
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Whisper Rock (Upper) - Key to scoring well at Whisper Rock and maintaining a prickle free round is to keep the ball in play as rough desert and spiky cacti surround most holes.
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Seven Canyons - Seven Canyons lies in a stunning setting on the central Arizona plateau in the middle of Sedona's red rock landscape where its location has been described as “like playing classic golf in the basin of the Grand Canyon.”
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Rim - The Rim Golf Club is nestled amongst the vanilla scented stands of Ponderosa Pine and it was fashioned by the team that created Scotland’s famous Loch Lomond Golf Club.
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Desert Highlands - In the early 1980s, Lyle Anderson asked Jack Nicklaus to construct a course around a sizeable Scottsdale residential development and the Golden Bear duly obliged by laying out 18 sand-protected holes at Desert Highlands Golf Club without a single water hazard on the property.
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Troon Country Club - Troon Country Club is perched at altitude in the striking Sonoran Desert. Designed by Jay Morrish and Tom Weiskopf and named after its famous Scottish alma mater, Royal Troon...
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Pine Canyon - A Jay Morrish design from 2004, the course at Pine Canyon Club is routed around numerous ponds and lakes on a rolling landscape to the south of Flagstaff. For those who like to resolve tied matches, there’s a short “Double or Nothing” 19th hole, where bets can be settled.
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Forest Highlands (Meadow) - The longer of the two 18-hole layouts at Forest Highlands Golf Club, Tom Weiskopf’s Meadow course debuted in 1999, twelve years after the unveiling of his Canyon course co-design with Jay Morrish.
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Mirabel - Around the end of the 1990s, the Greg Norman course at what was then called Stonehaven was ready to open when new management stepped in, allocated Tom Fazio a budget of $8 million, and asked him to replace the old layout with one of his own at the renamed Mirabel Club.
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Scottsdale - The 18-hole layout at The Golf Club Scottsdale is a Dick Bailey/Jay Morrish co-design that opened in 2003. Measuring over 7,500 yards from the back tees, the course builds to a crescendo over the final four holes, a closing sequence known as “Gambler’s Bluff”.
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Gold Canyon (Dinosaur Mountain) - Situated in the foothills of the Superstition Mountains, the Gold Canyon Golf Resort became a 36-hole complex in the late 1990s with Ken Kavanaugh’s Dinosaur Mountain course now considered the premier 18-hole layout.
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Desert Mountain (Chiricahua) - One of six Jack Nicklaus-designed layouts at the Desert Mountain Club, the Chiricahua course is routed over the hillier sections of the property, allowing the Golden Bear to incorporate some dramatic changes in elevation into the design.
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Quintero (Founder's) - The Founder's course at Quintero Golf & Country Club is routed through valleys in the foothills of the central Arizonan Hieroglyphic Mountains.
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Whisper Rock (Lower) - Whisper Rock owner Gregg Tryhus teamed Lefty up with Dallas-based architect Gary Stephenson to turn a boulder-strewn area in the Sonoran Desert into a very special golf venue.
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Chaparral Pines - David Graham collaborated with Scottsdale-based architect Gary Panks to lay out the tree-lined fairways of The Golf Club at Chaparral Pines in 1997. Situated in forested mountain terrain, the holes weave around rocky outcrops, a quarry and a number of man-made lakes.
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Silverleaf - A Tom Weiskopf offering from 2002, the 18-hole layout at Silverleaf is the centrepiece of an upmarket residential development that lies in the foothills of the McDowell Mountains.
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Gallery (North) - In 1998, the North course was the first of two 18-hole layouts to appear at The Gallery Golf Club. Designed by Tom Lehman in conjunction with architect John Fought, the front nine play through Ruelas Canyon with the back nine routed along a mountain ridge.
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Boulders (North) - Situated adjacent to Black Mountain Summit Park, the North course at The Boulders Club is the older of the two Jay Morrish courses in play at a 36-hole golf complex that sits within a residential development.
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Desert Mountain (Renegade) - The Renegade course was the first Jack Nicklaus layout to open at the Desert Mountain Club in 1987. Since then, the Golden Bear has added a further five 18-hole courses at this location but the Renegade, at 7,443 yards, remains the longest.
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Desert Mountain (Geronimo) - Second only in terms of difficulty to the top-ranked Chiricahua at the Desert Mountain Club, the Geronimo course debuted at the 108-hole Desert Mountain Club facility in 1989.
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We-Ko-Pa (Cholla) - We-Ko-Pa is all about the golfing experience and some of the views from the elevated tees of the Cholla course are jaw dropping.
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Talking Rock - Situated 25 miles north of Prescott, Talking Rock has a Jay Morrish-designed 18-hole golf course at the heart of its residential development. Generously wide fairways and clearly visible hazards make this a fair test for golfers of all abilities.
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Blackstone - The course at Blackstone Country Club was architect Jim Engh’s first Copper State design in 2005 and it’s a somewhat understated layout by the normal standards of this innovative modern architect.
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Troon North (Monument) - The Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish-designed Monument course was the first of two 18-hole layouts to be unveiled at Troon North Golf Club in 1990.
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Dove Mountain (Saguaro & Tortolita) - The Saguaro and Tortolita nines are used when the WGC Match Play Championship comes to town early in the professional season – the event has been held at Dove Mountain since 2009...
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Troon North (Pinnacle) - Tom Weiskopf designed the Pinnacle course at Troon North Golf Club and it debuted in 1995, five years after its 18-hole sibling, the Monument, first opened for play.
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Mayacama - With a Tuscan styled clubhouse that stands on elevated ground and a Jack Nicklaus walking-only course, Mayacama is more reminiscent of a classy Italian estate than an American golf club.
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Ayodhya Links - Water hazards lie in wait at every one of the 18 holes at the private Thomson Perrett-designed Ayodhya Links golf course...
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Amata Spring - Amata Spring Country Club was the venue for the Royal Trophy between 2006 and 2010 when the European professional team won three of the four events against their eight-man opponents from Asia.
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Quarry at La Quinta - The Quarry sits in the Coachella Valley at the foothills before the Santa Rosa Mountains and features an abandoned mine and Indian trail as part of the course.
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Preserve - The Santa Lucia Preserve is an exclusive gated community where some 300 families share 20,000 acres of unspoilt California and a way of life.
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Thai - The Thai Country Club course flows past flowering trees and shrubs, with a sea breeze off the Gulf of Siam.
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Bel-Air - Bel-Air Country Club is a throwback to The Roaring Twenties and the course here is one of the finest layouts that came from the remarkable George C. Thomas design stable...
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Black Mountain - Designed by Phil Ryan of Pacific Coast Design, the course at Black Mountain Golf Club is situated 140 miles south of Bangkok, near the small town of Hua Hin. Opening in 2007, it quickly established itself as one of the best 18-hole layouts in Thailand.
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Alpine Golf Club - Alpine Golf Club is a lush paradise within the rustic surrounds and in some ways more resembles a botanical garden specialising in the exhibition of palms.
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Madison - Some have compared Tom Fazio’s course at The Madison Club to Shadow Creek in Nevada and it’s true to say that he was given another big budget to construct this 18-hole Coachella Valley layout.
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Torrey Pines (South) - Torrey Pines is situated on cliff tops some 20 minutes to the north of San Diego and is one of the best municipal golf facilities in the USA.
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Siam (Old) - Originally laid out in 1972, the Old course at Siam Country Club was redesigned by Lee Schmidt and Brian Curley, reopening for play in 2007. A lily-covered creek features between the 15th and 17th, a trio of holes regarded as the “Amen Corner” of Thai golf.
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Shady Canyon - A Tom Fazio desert design that opened in 2002, the course at Shady Canyon Golf Club is gently routed around a valley with fairways following the natural contours as they skirt ravines and creeks.
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Navatanee - As an all-round golfing experience, the members golf club at Navatanee is one of the very best in Asia.
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Santiburi - Designed by Robert Trent Jones Jnr and opened for play in 1992, Santiburi Country Club at Chiang Rai is not only one of the best-conditioned courses in the country, it’s also one of the most exclusive...
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Stone Eagle - Located in Palm Desert and opened in 2002, the emerald fairways of the Tom Doak-designed golf course at the Stone Eagle Club are set out on a rugged landscape devoid of all housing...
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Martis Camp - Laid out within a large forested site in Martis Valley, the 18-hole Tom Fazio course at Martis Camp Club is just one of the sporting amenities available at a fabulous year-round Lake Tahoe retreat.
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Blue Canyon (Canyon) - The Canyon course at Phuket’s Blue Canyon Country Club is one of Asia’s more exacting golfing examinations. It is not possible to play poorly here and score well.
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Monterey Peninsula (Dunes) - The Dunes golf course at Monterey Peninsula Country Club is a 1926 Seth Raynor layout that was completed by Alister MacKenzie’s partner, Robert Hunter. Renovated by Rees Jones in 1999, it now provides a vastly improved challenge.
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Banyan - The Thai course architect Pirapon Namatra laid out the course at Banyan Golf Club in Hua Hin. Many consider the views from the short par three 15th tee across the ocean to Sing Toh island to be worth the green fee alone.
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Lahontan - Lahontan Golf Club is located to the north of Lake Tahoe on land that was once home to the Washoe Indians in the spectacular Martis Valley.
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Laem Chabang International - Laem Chabang International is the best golf course on Bangkok's Eastern seaboard, an area of Thailand that saw a boom in course development in the 1990s when bank credit was easy to come by.
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Tradition - Centrepiece of an impressive residential development, Arnold Palmer’s 18 holes at The Tradition Golf Club offer members a golf game of two halves; a solid front nine followed by a more exciting back nine.
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Red Mountain - Built on the site of an old tin mine in Phuket, the course at Red Mountain Golf Club was the first 18-hole design of architect Jonathan Morrow and he made a fantastic job of routing fairways through dense vegetation and around rocky cliffs.
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Blue Canyon (Lakes) - Located within 720 acres beside Phuket International airport, the Lakes course at Blue Canyon Country Club opened in 1999, eight years after the Canyon course was created. Built on the site of an old mine, the fairways of the Lakes layout feature water hazards on all but one of the holes.
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Vintage (Desert) - The Desert course at the 36-hole Vintage Club is shorter than its older Mountain sibling by some 700 yards and water comes into play at almost half the holes here.
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Bridges at Rancho Santa Fe - A Robert Trent Jones Jnr design that opened for play in 1999, the golf course at the Bridges at Rancho Santa Fe has been described as one where “no two holes are even remotely the same”.
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Chiangmai Highlands - The Chiangmai Highlands Resort is located in the scenic hills of northwest Thailand. The Schmidt-Curley-designed golf course, which opened for play in 2005, is a shot makers course, making full use of the rolling ground.
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St Andrews 2000 - Located 96 miles south east of Bangkok, the private course at St Andrews 2000 is a Desmond Muirhead design where he set out fairways on rather hilly terrain. It plays to a par of 74, largely due to the layout featuring two par six holes.
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PGA West (Stadium) - The best and toughest of the three public courses at the PGA West golf complex, Pete Dye’s 1986 creation, the Stadium course, is host to the PGA Tour “Q-School” Finals every two years.
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Dragon Hills - The owners of Dragon Hills Golf and Country Club plan to develop three 18-hole layouts at their 1500-acre site in Ratchaburi and the first of these courses was established by American architect Jim Engh in the early 1990s.
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Meadow Club - Recently restored by Mike DeVries, the mountain meadow course at the Meadow Club is located in the hills of Marin County and its design back in 1927 was Alister MacKenzie’s first American project.
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Rancho Santa Fe - Laid out on a long, narrow tract of land, the 18 holes at Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club were set out by Max Behr in 1929. The routing has remained the same for over eighty years but greens and bunkers have recently been refurbished.
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Blue Sapphire (Ocean) - Set within the site of a former sapphire mine in Bophloi, the Blue Sapphire Golf Resort is a 36-hole golf complex where the Ocean course is considered the more challenging of the two 18-hole layouts.
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Evergreen Hills - Local architect Artanan Yomchida formed the 18 holes at Evergreen Hills Golf Club and Resort in the early 1990s and he arranged the fairways in two loops that return to a central clubhouse position.
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Bighorn (Canyons) - Host to the LPGA World Championship between 2004 and 2007, the Tom Fazio-designed Canyons course at Bighorn Golf Club debuted seven years after Arthur Hills’s Mountain course opened at the same venue.
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Sherwood - Naturally, being so close to Thousand Oaks, mature, stately trees are a feature here at Sherwood Country Club coupled with babbling brooks and even waterfalls.
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Panorama - The course at Panorama Golf and Country Club is part of a residential development in Khao Yai National Park and the tree-lined playing corridors have been expertly set out on a rolling landscape of wooded hills and verdant valleys.
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Royal Ratchaburi - Laid out in two separate 9-hole circuits, a number of the fairways at Royal Ratchaburi Golf Club hug the contours of two mountains – Khao Rang and Khao Chonglao – while others wind their way around several sparkling lakes.
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Links at Spanish Bay - Created by Robert Trent Jones Jnr (with input from Tom Watson and former USGA President Sandy Tatum), The Links at Spanish Bay is laid out on a sizeable area of sandy terrain that overlooks the Pacific Ocean.
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Olympic Club (Ocean) - Regarded as the main attraction when the Olympic Club’s golf facility first opened in the 1920s, the Ocean has long since been overtaken in prominence by the Lake course.
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Siam (Plantation) - The 27-hole Plantation is the new golf course on the block at Siam Country Club in Pattaya. This Schmidt-Curley design opened for play in 2008 and is routed in three loops of nine holes, appropriately named Sugar Cane, Tapioca, and Pineapple.
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Toscana Valley - The centrepiece of an Italian-themed residential project in Khao Yai, the private course at Toscana Valley enjoys a spectacular setting with fairways set in shady valleys surrounded by wooded hills.
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CordeValle - Host to the 2012 USGA Senior Women’s Amateur Championship, the course at the CordeValle Resort is a Robert Trent Jones Jnr design that can be stretched to all of 7,360 yards for competitive play.
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Stanford University - Among American collegiate golf courses, only Yale is regarded as a better layout than Stanford University. Tom Watson and Tiger Woods developed their games here whilst playing on Stanford golf teams.
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Santiburi Samui - One of Thailand’s leading architects, Pirapon Namatra, designed the 18-hole golf course at Santiburi Samui Country Club. Located in the mountain foothills of Samui Island, this championship course makes full use of the plunging topography.
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Alpine Golf Resort - The Ron Garl-designed course at the Alpine Golf Resort in Chiang Mai is an absorbing experience where forested mountains provide a dramatic backcloth. The snaking par five 4th hole will stick in the memory, at 652 yards it’s one of the longest in Thailand.
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Reserve Club - The desert course at The Reserve Club - a Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish creation from 1998 - lies in the shadow of the Eisenhower and Indio Mountains at the southern end of Coachella Valley.
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Pelican Hill (Ocean South) - The Ocean South course is one of two Tom Fazio 18-hole layouts at the Resort at Pelican Hill and it debuted in 1991, two years ahead of the Ocean North layout. Several holes allow 270-degree views of the Pacific Ocean.
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Springfield Royal (A & B) - Jack Nicklaus designed all 27 holes at the Springfield Royal Country Club at Cha-am. The Mountain (A) and Lake (B) nines make up the premier 18-hole configuration at this resort.
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Bighorn (Mountains) - An adventurous Arthur Hills design from 1991, the Mountains course at Bighorn Golf Club sits high above Palm Desert. It was chosen as the venue for the PGA Skins Game between 1992 and 1995 when its spectacular site made for some captivating TV golf.
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Suwan - The championship course at Suwan Golf & Country Club opened for play in 2005 and can be stretched out beyond 7,100 yards. Built by the Thai company Weeyos Design, Suwan hosted the 2011 Thailand Open won by Australian Andre Stolz.
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Royal Gems Golf City - The 18-hole layout at Royal Gems Golf City is Asia’s first replica course and it was designed, or should we say copied, by Ron Garl. The front nine comprises of nine of the world’s most famous holes and the homeward nine is a tropical replica of Augusta National’s back nine.
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Barona Creek - Located between the Oak Oasis and Lakeside County Parks, the Barona Creek golf course is set within the rolling foothills of San Diego and it’s ranked as one of the top five casino courses in the USA.
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Vintage (Mountain) - The challenging Mountain course is one of a pair of 18-hole layouts designed by Tom Fazio at the Vintage Club. The water-dominated par four 16th is one of the most photographed holes in the state.
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Soi Dao Highland - The American architect Denis Griffiths designed the 7,162-yard mountainside course at Soi Dao Highland Golf Club. Some assert that Griffiths holds the distinction of being the only American architect to design a golf course in St Andrews.
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Lam Luk Ka (East) - The East course is the championship layout at the 36-hole Lam Luk Ka Golf & Country Club. Host to the Thailand PGA Championship in 2002, the East course is located just a short drive by car from Bangkok’s vibrant metropolis.
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Desert Willow (Firecliff) - “From a golfing point of view this is just about the Garden of Eden” was how one commentator described the Coachella Valley's Desert Willow Golf Resort. The Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry-designed Firecliff course is the headliner that opened with a bang in 1999.
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La Purisima - Set within a 300-acre site to the north west of Santa Barbara, the fairways of the La Purisima golf course are routed across a wonderful sandy-soiled property that’s devoid of any commercial or residential development.
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Riverdale - Measuring more than 7.000 yards from the tips, Riverdale Golf Club is a testing Jon Morrow and Al Tikkanen course. Elevated tees lead down to the valley fairways of the Chao Phraya River Delta.
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Eldorado - Two years after the Eldorado Country Club was formed in 1957, it hosted the 13th series of Ryder Cup matches so its course is historically important. In more recent times, Tom Fazio carried out extensive alterations to the layout in 2003.
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Bayonet & Black Horse (Bayonet) - Gene Bates recently renovated the 18-hole Bayonet course at the Bayonet and Black Horse golf complex, which was formerly part of the Fort Ord US Army training camp.
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Rustic Canyon - The Rustic Canyon golf course was laid out in 2001 within a 350-acre site on the floor of a broad canyon to the north west of Los Angeles...
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Harding Park - Harding Park Golf Course has a long history that dates back to 1925 when the course was laid out by Willie Watson and Sam Whiting.
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Pauma Valley - Designed by Robert Trent Jones Senior and opened in 1960, the private course at Pauma Valley Golf Club lies between the Wilderness Gardens Park and the Palomar Mountain State Park in San Diego North County.
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Trump National - Los Angeles - Said to be the most expensive golf course constructed at a reputed cost of around $250m, the cliff top layout at Trump National Los Angeles was designed by Pete Dye from the remains of the Ocean Trails Golf Club…
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Lake Merced - The course at Lake Merced Golf Club has enjoyed plenty of significant architectural input since Willie Lock first constructed it in 1923. Alister MacKenzie carried out work in 1929, Robert Muir Graves redesigned the layout in the 1960s then Rees Jones rebuilt greens and bunkers in 1996.
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Pelican Hill (Ocean North) - Opened for play in 1993, the Ocean North course is one of a pair of fabulous Tom Fazio designs at the Resort at Pelican Hill where the Pacific Ocean forms a backdrop to each and every one of the 18 holes on the card.
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Old Greenwood - The Old Greenwood pay-and-play golf course is a 7,518-yard Jack Nicklaus signature layout that sits amongst towering pine trees in the mountains close to North Lake Tahoe.
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Shelter Harbor - The Shelter Harbor Golf Club course was unveiled in 2005 and this modern layout is a Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry production that’s characterised by its rough-edged, bearded bunkers.
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Rhode Island - Host to the 2011 US Women’s Amateur, Rhode Island Country Club is routed across a diverse landscape of parkland, woodland and wetlands, ending with four holes that wind around Narragansett Bay.
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Sakonnet - The 18-hole layout at Sakonnet Golf Club dates back to 1922 when Donald Ross added nine new holes to nine that already existed. A Gil Hanse renovation in 2004 added more than 400 yards in length.
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Carnegie Abbey - Designed by Donald Steel & Company, the golf course at The Carnegie Abbey Club is routed across wetlands where the Battle of Rhode Island was fought. Constructed with a light touch, the course contains only 41 sand traps and four holes are bunkerless.
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Newport National - Arthur Hills and his associate Drew Rogers tamed close to 200 acres of trees and shrubs when routing the Orchard course at Newport National Golf Club through a former nursery.
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Misquamicut - With several fairways routed close to tidal ponds next to the Atlantic shoreline, the 18 holes at The Misquamicut Club extend to only 6,214 yards, making this a short, but very sweet, Donald Ross golf course.
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Agawam Hunt - The Agawam Hunt Club has benefited from significant architectural input since Willie Park Jnr pegged out the original course: Donald Ross redesigned it in 1931, Geoff Cornish carried out a renovation in the 1960s and Gil Hanse was involved in a recent restoration project.
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Point Judith - Point Judith Country Club was established in 1894 but the golfing element of its sporting activities only really took off when Donald Ross added nine holes to the club’s existing 9-hole layout in 1927.
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Sanctuary - The Rocky Mountains provide the dramatic backcloth for the golf club known simply as Sanctuary – the brainchild of RE/MAX Chairman and Co-Founder Dave Liniger.
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Broadmoor (East) - Golf arrived at the Broadmoor Resort in 1918 when Donald Ross created an 18-holer which was split in two when Robert Trent Jones Snr added two 9-hole loops, forming the East course in 1952 and the West in 1964.
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Ravenna - The 7,263-yard course of the Ravenna Golf Club is a Jay Morrish solo design and is set between Waterton Canyon and the Pike National Forest.
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Redlands Mesa - The Golf Club at Redlands Mesa lies in the shadow of imposing rock formations on a spectacular Grand Valley site where Jim Engh routed the fairways around an attractive housing development in 2001.
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Red Sky (Norman) - Opened in 2003, the Norman course is much the tougher of the two 18-hole layouts at Red Sky Ranch & Golf Club. Separated from the Fazio course by a ridge, it measures almost 500 yards longer than its younger golfing sibling.
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Red Sky (Fazio) - The Fazio course at Red Sky Ranch & Golf Club debuted in 2002, one year before the Norman course opened for play. It’s a layout that enjoys substantial elevation changes with most of the challenge found in the intricate design of the greens.
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Cougar Canyon - Chris Cochran of Nicklaus Design decided to use black sand in the bunkers of the course at the Cougar Canyon Golf Resort Community in tribute to the proud industrial heritage of the old mining town.
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Denver - Denver Country Club was founded in 1887, moving to its current location eighteen years after its formation. A number of great architects have modified the original James Foulis course, including Donald Ross, William Flynn and, more recently, Bill Coore.
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Catamount Ranch - Featuring several trademark short par fours from designer Tom Weiskopf, the course at Catamount Ranch & Club is situated a few miles south of the wonderfully named Steamboat Springs Ski Resort.
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Rockies, Country Club of the - A Jack Nicklaus design from 1984, the routing of the Country Club of the Rockies golf course brings the Eagle River into play at several of the holes.
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Maroon Creek - Situated just outside Aspen, the mountain golf course at the Maroon Creek Club is an incredibly scenic Tom Fazio layout that features a wonderful set of par threes at holes 9, 11 and 13.
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Ironbridge - An Arthur Hills 18-hole layout that first opened for play in 2003, the course at Ironbridge Golf Club is a widely accepted tough track that’s strung out along the valley of the Roaring Fork River.
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Castle Pines, The Country Club at - Located close to the other Jack Nicklaus course at its Golf Club namesake, The Country Club at Castle Pines was founded in 1986 and the course is a brute from the tips, but the challenge here is to keep focused on the game and not the 360-degree Colorado panorama.
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Pradera - Jim Engh, the designer of the golf course at The Club at Pradera, describes the layout as “a blend of Irish and Modern” where “we worked hard to blend what nature gave us and what we fine-tuned in spots”.
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Roaring Fork - Laid out beside the Roaring Fork River, the eighteen fairways at the Roaring Fork Club comprise a Jack Nicklaus signature golf course that occupies a mixture of terrains, from woodland to open ranch land.
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Lakota Canyon - One of an octet of courses that Engh has designed in the Centennial State, Lakota Canyon Ranch and Golf Club lies just outside New Castle at an altitude of over 5,000 feet above sea level.
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Aspen Glen - A very scenic Nicklaus Design golf course that opened for play in 1997, Aspen Glen Club’s 7,455-yard layout sits in a Rocky Mountain valley at an altitude of over 6,000 feet.
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Cornerstone - Located between Montrose and Telluride in the southwest of the Centennial State, Cornerstone’s Greg Norman-designed mountain course measures a mammoth 7,945 yards from the tips.
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Breckenridge (Beaver & Bear) - The Beaver and Bear nines formed the original Jack Nicklaus course at Breckenridge Golf Club when it opened in 1985 and they were joined by the slightly less demanding 9-hole Elk circuit sixteen years later.
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Columbine - Venue for the USPGA Championships in 1967 when Don January lifted the famous old Wanamaker Trophy, the course at Columbine Country Club was laid out by Henry Hughes a decade before it came to national prominence by hosting one of the four Majors.
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Raven at Three Peaks - Set at an altitude of over 8,700 feet, the spectacular Raven Golf Club at Three Peaks is an old 18-hole mountain layout that was reworked by Tom Lehman in collaboration with the design duo of Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry.
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Stanwich - The Stanwich Club has no shortage of great holes but perhaps the pick of the bunch is the par three 13th which, from the tips, plays firstly over a creek and then a pond.
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Fairfield - Dan Jenkins reckons "Seth Raynor's best work is the Country Club of Fairfield... It's short but covered up with charm."
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Lake of Isles (South) - The South course is the private 18-hole layout at the 36-hole golf complex where fairways were literally routed around the 90-acre Lake of Isles by architect Rees Jones.
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Lake of Isles (North) - The North course at Rees Jones’s upmarket 36-hole Lake of Isles golf facility is the public one that all golfers can play, albeit for a significant green fee.
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Wee Burn - Wee Burn Country Club dates back to 1896 when George Strath from St Andrews is said to have established a 6-hole course. Devereux Emmet reworked the layout in 1925, which enabled the course to host the US Women’s Amateur in 1939, 1958 and 1970.
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Tamarack - Charles Banks, Seth Raynor’s associate, laid out the course at Tamarack Country Club in 1929 and it features many standard replica holes like North Berwick’s “Redan” at the 196-yard 7th.
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TPC River Highlands - Located on a bluff above the Connecticut River, the course at TPC River Highlands was once home to Middletown GC then Edgewood CC before makeovers by Pete Dye in 1984 and Bobby Weed in 1990 enabled the PGA Tour to establish it as venue for the annual Greater Hartford Open.
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Fox Hopyard - Designed by Roger Rulewich, the semi-private layout at Fox Hopyard is a sister golf course to Fox Hollow in Florida and Crumpin-Fox in Massachusetts, all three of which are owned by businessman Bill Sandri.
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Hartford (Red & Blue) - A 27-hole facility, the Red and Blue nines at the Hartford Golf Club are often combined to form the premier 18-hole course. That’s not to say that the 9-hole Green circuit is any way inferior, however.
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Round Hill - The Round Hill Club’s course dates back to 1922 when Walter Travis laid out the fairways, though Emilio Strazza, the long term green keeper at the club, is also due enormous credit for subsequent shaping of the putting surfaces.
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Bull’s Bridge - Designed with a somewhat uncharacteristic light touch by Tom Fazio, the 18-hole layout at Bull’s Bridge Golf Club was the architect’s first design in the Nutmeg State of Connecticut.
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Great River - The front nine holes on the Great River Golf Club course play through woodland whilst the back nine are laid out on more open terrain, with six of the holes set alongside the Houstanic River.
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Wintonbury Hills - Designed by Pete Dye in 2005, the 18-hole layout at Wintonbury Hills is set in Bloomfield, to the north west of Hartford, and it’s one of the best municipal courses in all of New England.
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Black Hall - The Robert Trent Jones Snr golf course at the Black Hall Club occupies heavily wooded terrain on a tight, 160-acre tract of land that lies less than a mile inland from Long Island Sound.
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Wilmington (South) - The Robert Trent Jones-designed South golf course at Wilmington Country Club has twice played host to the US Junior Amateur.
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Peninsula, The - Jack Nicklaus routed the fairways of the golf course at The Peninsula at Longneck around a rather large residential development. Set close to the Indian River Bay, several holes are laid out adjacent to Lingo Creek.
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Bayside Resort - The Bayside Resort Golf Club’s course is an integral component of a residential development close to Fenwick Island. It’s a Jack Nicklaus layout where holes weave in and out of the woodland and wetland areas that overlook Assawoman Bay.
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Baywood Greens - The pay-and-play golf course at Baywood Greens is in the process of being expanded to a 27-hole complex. When work is complete, a sand nine, called Duneside, will be added to the existing Woodside and Waterside nines.
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Bidermann - The Bidermann golf course is a Dick Wilson design from the mid 1960s that is now shared by members of Bidermann and Vicmead Hunt Club after they merged to form one sporting club (with two separate clubhouses) in 1977.
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Wilmington (North) - The Dick Wilson-designed North course was laid out around the same time as Robert Trent Jones completed the South layout. It plays almost 600 yard shorter that RTJ’s track with eight of the par fours measuring less than 400 yards.
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Fieldstone - Because the course at Fieldstone Golf Club lies on something of a heaving landscape, fairways rise and fall with regularity on this Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry design.
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DuPont (DuPont) - There are three golf courses at DuPont Country Club but the jewel in the crown is the DuPont layout which was resurrected by Lester George in 2005.
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Back Creek - Routed around a residential development, the 18-hole layout at Back Creek Golf Club is one of the First State’s best public courses, extending to 7,113 yards from the back tees and playing to a par of 71.
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White Clay Creek - The modern 18-hole layout at White Clay Creek Country Club is routed to the south and east of the horseracing track at Delaware Park. Designed by Arthur Hills, the golf course is one of the most aesthetically pleasing in the First State.
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Black Diamond Ranch (Quarry) - Designed by Tom Fazio and opened in 1987, the Quarry course is not a typical Florida course because it has so many changes in elevation.
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Concession - The Concession Golf Club is set in a 1,200-acre private community on Florida’s Gulf Coast. The club was inspired by the moment that has been referred to as the “greatest single sporting gesture ever”.
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Jupiter Hills (Hills) - With holes routed across this unusually hilly site between acres of pine, oak and palmetto, it’s no surprise that Jupiter Hills is so well regarded and so fiercely protected by its ultra-exclusive membership.
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Pine Tree - Pine Tree Golf Club is prestigious, traditional and intensely private. Also, the course represents a precise challenge and is considered to be one of Dick Wilson’s finest designs.
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Pablo Creek - Opened for golf in 1996, Pablo Creek Club is fashioned around a series of water hazards where you’ll need to keep a watchful eye on the alligators if your long game is wayward.
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Trump International (Championship) - West Palm Beach - There are 27 Jim Fazio designed holes at Trump International Golf Club at West Palm Beach and Trump certainly moved the earth to create the Championship course.
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Bear's Club - The Bear’s Club was inaugurated in 1999 by Jack and Barbara Nicklaus and is the result of Jack’s dream to create a world-class golf course in his own South Florida backyard.
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Indian Creek - Indian Creek Country Club is at the heart of Indian Creek Island and is located between Bal Harbor and Miami Beach. Here in splendid isolation lies one of America’s most exclusive communities...
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Mountain Lake - Seth Raynor moved very little earth at Mountain Lake. The holes sit on rolling terrain not typically associated with Florida.
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John's Island West - John's Island West is routed across delightful terrain with tall sand ridges which rise up some fifty feet or so from the property.
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Shark's Tooth - The 7,209-yard Shark’s Tooth is part of an 800-acre residential community and the routing makes excellent use of delightful rolling ground, which is ideal for golf but unusual for Florida...
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Isleworth - Opening for play in 1986, the course at Isleworth Golf & Country Club is the centrepiece for one of the nation’s premier residential communities and home to a plethora of famous golfing names.
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Hammock Beach (Ocean) - With six holes that play close to the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, the Ocean course at Hammock Beach has developed a likeable reputation.
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McArthur - The famous dairy family who started farming in Florida in the late 1920s with a handful of Jersey cows own McArthur Golf Club.
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Old Memorial - Routed across more than 300 acres of sandy ground, Old Memorial Golf Club – named after a nearby road – plays in a links-like style with firm surfaces and teasing, fickle coastal winds.
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Sugarloaf Mountain - Sugarloaf Mountain Golf Club is not your typical Florida-styled course; it follows the contours of the rather hilly ground and consequently feels more like a Carolinas course.
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Medalist - Greg Norman originally founded the Medalist Golf Club in January 1995 and the course, located at Hobe Sound, was the first design collaboration between The Shark and Pete Dye.
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Bay Hill (Challenger & Champion) - Palmer and his partner Ed Seay have altered much of Dick Wilson’s original design, so today’s Bay Hill is very much the spirit of the King.
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Naples National - The overall design at Naples National Golf Club is based on the tradition of golf’s “golden age” so do not expect to find any gimmicks here...
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Loblolly - There is nothing mediocre about the course at Loblolly Golf Club, which opened in 1988. It’s one of Pete Dye’s unsung layouts that simply bristles with style. Formerly known as Loblolly Pines, this is Floridian seaside golf from the top drawer.
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Old Marsh - Old Marsh Golf Club lies at the centre of a 450-acre private residential development where the fairways and Mother Nature blend together in complete harmony with the wetland surroundings.
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Camp Creek - Camp Creek Golf Club opened its five tees for play in 2001 and has already received more accolades than an Oscar winner.
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Lake Nona - Lake Nona Golf & Country Club starts off under a canopy of tall trees on the front nine, becoming more open on the inward half as the final five holes play around natural inland lakes.
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Florida, Country Club of - Situated a couple of miles from Bonyton Beach, the course at the Country Club of Florida was originally built by members of Augusta National who enlisted Robert Bruce Harris to design an expansive layout...
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Timuquana - Situated within a beautifully forested site that backs onto the St Johns River, the course at Timuquana Country Club is a 1923 Donald Ross layout that has been extensively altered over the last nine decades...
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PGA National (Champion) - The star attraction on the PGA National menu is the Champion course, which was the battleground for the 1983 Ryder Cup – one of the closest contests in Ryder Cup history.
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Boca Rio - Founded in 1967, Boca Rio Golf Club is a men-only club that is perhaps one of Florida’s least well-known golf courses. Designed in an understated style by the late Robert von Hagge, Boca Rio is a class act from an uninspiring period in modern golf course architecture.
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Southern Dunes - What you see is what you get. There are no tricks at Southern Dunes Golf & Country club, nothing is hidden, and everything is fairly laid out in front of you.
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Gulf Stream - The 1923 Donald Ross-designed course at the Gulf Stream Golf Club is located on the Atlantic coast to the north of Delray Beach. At 6,409 yards the course is rather short but, in a Seminole style, the property has a central ridge that Ross once more utilised to good effect.
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Doral (Blue Monster) - Doral's Blue Monster, home of the World Golf Championships, has hosted prestigious PGA TOUR events for the last 45 years.
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Hideout - Founded in 2000, Kelly Blake Moran designed the course at Hideout Golf Club and it’s one of the region’s rare golf-only clubs. Used as a qualifying course for the US Amateur, Hideout is course that looks mature way beyond its years and some commentators regard it as almost classical.
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Tuscany Reserve - The course at Tuscany Reserve Golf Club is the result of an unlikely collaboration between two bold designers, Pete Dye and Greg Norman.
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Old Collier - Described by the club as “a golf club, pure and simple”, the course at Old Collier is set alongside the Cocohatchee River and Tom Fazio laid it out across 270 acres of park-like ground in 2001. One of Fazio’s best Floridian designs, Old Collier does what it says on the tin. “It’s pure golf.”
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Hammock Dunes (Creek) - Set on Florida’s Atlantic coast the Hammock Dunes Club is a residential community with two golf courses at its heart. We think the best is the newer, inland Rees Jones-designed Creek – opened in 2001. Its Audubon certification and zero housing edges out the Links.
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Tiburon (Black) - The Gold course is now the site of the annual Shark Shootout but it’s the second and oldest course at Tiburon Golf Club, the Black, that generally receives the accolades.
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Juliette Falls - The golf course at Juliet Falls is a 7,239-yard John Sanford design and it’s the architect’s finest creation to date.
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Innisbrook (Copperhead) - American architect E. Lawrence Packard designed all four layouts at the Innisbrook Resort and the Copperhead golf course is his most famous and arguably best achievement.
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Ritz-Carlton Members Club – Sarasota - The Members Golf Club at The Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota is an exclusive course available only to members of The Ritz-Carlton Members Club and guests of the resort.
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Orange County National (Panther Lake) - Panther Lake was the first golf course to open at Orange County National (1997) and it was the result of collaboration between Phil Ritson, Isao Aoki and the late David Harman...
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Kelly Plantation - Kelly Plantation Golf Club is billed as “The Crown Jewel of the Emerald Coast” and for once the course matches the hype.
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Hammock Beach (Conservatory) - The Conservatory golf course is certainly not elementary and Tom Watson’s Hammock Beach 7,746-yard inland monster may well have played host to the inaugural 2007 Ginn Tournament...
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PGA (Ryder) - The Ryder course at the PGA Village – formerly called the North golf course – is named in honour of Samuel Ryder, the English entrepreneur and founder of the “official” Ryder Cup...
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Loxahatchee - According to Nicklaus Design, "The Loxahatchee Club was created out of the love of the game with flavourings of the olde Scottish game mingled with the finest characteristics of modern American golf".
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World Woods (Rolling Oaks) - Pine Barrens is the World Woods golf course that receives most of the accolades but do not overlook Rolling Oaks. Both are from Fazio’s top drawer but both courses came from very different cabinets.
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Breakers (Rees Jones) - The Breakers oceanfront hotel at Palm Beach is one of America’s legendary destinations and its Rees Jones golf course was awarded “Renovation of the Year 2005”...
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Floridian Yacht - You’ll really need to hang on to Frigyes Karinthy’s “six degrees of separation” theory in order to get a game at Floridian Yacht & Golf Club, for this was Huizenga’s retreat.
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Sandestin (Raven) - The Raven Golf Club at Sandestin was two-time host to the Boeing Championship, a PGA Champions Tour event. Bobby Wadkins was victorious in 2006 and Loren Roberts prevailed in 2007.
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Orange County National (Crooked Cat) - The Crooked Cat golf course at Orange County National opened in 1999 and it can be stretched out beyond 7,200 yards from the tips. It’s hardly a pussycat.
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Bonita Bay (Bay Island) - The Bay Island course was last to open in 1994 and it’s considered to be the toughest of the Arthur Hills trio here at Bonita Bay.
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Sawgrass (East & West) - Sawgrass Country Club is where the Players Championship was held for five years from 1977, at a time when the TPC was still an undeveloped swamp a couple of miles to the south of the property.
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Grand Cypress (North & South) - The Grand Cypress Resort sits next door to Walt Disney World in a very central location for golfers on vacation to Orlando...
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BallenIsles (East) - Extending to over 1,300 acres, the beautifully landscaped BallenIsles housing complex is laid out around the three top drawer golf courses named North, South and East.
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Mayacoo Lakes - Mayacoo Lakes Country Club was one of the earliest collaborations of Jack Nicklaus and Desmond Muirhead.
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Disney (Palm) - The toughest hole and longest par four on the Palm course is undoubtedly the 18th where the final third of the hole is an island.
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Innisbrook (Island) - The Copperhead course is arguably E. Lawrence Packard's best achievement but his Island course – host to numerous U.S. Open qualifiers and NCAA Championships – is not far behind in the rankings.
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Doral (Great White) - A Greg Norman Signature Course, the Great White at Doral is the only golf course of its kind in the Southeastern United States that utilises coquina (crushed shells) as the primary design element on every hole.
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Ocean Forest - Ocean Forest Golf Club was co-designed by Rees Jones and Greg Muirhead in 1995 and it’s built on a wonderful parcel of Georgia land and it closely resembles a true seaside links.
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Sea Island (Seaside) - The Sea Island Seaside course dates back to the late 1920s and was originally designed by the great English partnership of Harry Colt and Charles Alison...
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Cuscowilla - Set on the shore of Lake Oconee, the resort course at the Golf Club at Cuscowilla is a dramatic but harmonious Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw design.
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Atlanta Athletic Club (Highlands) - The Highlands course is invariably considered to be the premier layout at Atlanta Athletic Club and the 1976 US Open was played on this course.
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Hawks Ridge - Hawks Ridge Golf Club is highly polished and Bob Cupp has tried to create the olde worlde sophistication of classical architecture with a twist of modernity.
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Farm - Tom Fazio’s 18-hole layout at The Farm Golf Club dates back to 1988 and it plays a lot tougher than the type of course found at many of the architect’s more modern residential-based golf projects.
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Atlanta Country Club - Mention Atlanta Country Club and the BellSouth Classic springs to mind or is it called the AT&T Classic these days?
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Lookout Mountain - CB Macdonald’s associate Seth Raynor and assistant Charles Banks laid out the course in 1926, but it would take another seventy years before a Brian Silva restoration completed the project satisfactorily.
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Augusta Country Club - The club will always be overshadowed by its famous neighbour, but Silva’s work is undoubtedly artful and we’re sure Augusta Country Club will only rise higher in future rankings.
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Currahee - The golf course at the Currahee Club sits on a very hilly site above Lake Hartwell and Jim Fazio did very well to route the 18 holes around such a heavily contoured property.
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Frederica - Created for Sea Island heir Bill Jones by Tom Fazio, who received a helping hand from former R&A Secretary, Sir Michael Bonallack, Frederica is a big golf course with a capital B.
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Champions Retreat (Bluff & Island) - The 27-hole facility at Champions Retreat Golf Club opened for play in 2005 with three 9-hole circuits, each of which were laid out by a different golfing great. The Jack Nicklaus/Arnold Palmer-designed Bluff and Island nines edge out Gary Player’s Creek to form the premier 18-hole layout.
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TPC Sugarloaf (Stables & Meadows) - The Stables and Meadows nines at the 27-hole TPC Sugarloaf complex were Greg Norman’s first US design efforts when they debuted in 1997 with the Pines circuit following three years later.
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Atlanta Athletic Club (Riverside) - Host to the 1990 US Women’s Open, the Riverside forms one of two great golf courses at the 36-hole Atlanta Athletic Club. Originally designed by Robert Trent Jones Snr, the layout was renovated by his son Rees in 2003.
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Georgia (Lakeside) - One of a pair of 18-hole Arthur Hill-designed layouts at the Golf Club of Georgia, the Lakeside course opened in 1991 – two years ahead of the Creekside – with several holes on the back nine laid out alongside the sparkling waters of Lake Windward.
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Brickyard at Riverside - Originally set out by Chic Adams in 1961, the Brickyard at Riverside golf course underwent an extensive redesign by Mark McCumber in 2005 when tees, fairways and greens were reshaped and new trees and grasses planted.
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Ansley (Settindown Creek) - Formed by Bob Cupp in 1988, the front nine holes on the Settindown Creek course at Ansley Golf Club lie alongside Little River with the back nine routed over more elevated terrain.
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Ford Plantation - Ogeechee - Pete Dye designed the course at the Ogeechee Golf Club at the Ford Plantation in 1987 and he created a layout with two distinct areas of challenge; the front nine winds around 250 acres of lakes and the back nine is routed around old plantation rice fields.
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Reynolds Plantation (National - Ridge & Bluff) - Tom Fazio’s National was the fourth 18-hole layout to open at Reynolds Plantation in 1997. The same architect returned to add a third nine (named Cove) three years later but it’s the original two nines, Ridge and Bluff, which still comprise the premier 18-hole combination.
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River Club - Georgia - Greg Norman laid out the golf course at The River Club in 2005 within a luxury housing development where fairways occupy a tract of rolling land beside the Chattahoochee River.
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Standard Club - Formed as a sports and social club in 1867, The Standard Club moved to its present site in 1987 when Arthur Hills set out an 18-hole golf course (subsequently renovated by Mike Riley in 2004) for the members.
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Capital City (Crabapple) - Located 30 miles to the north of Capital City Club’s old Brookhaven golf course in downtown Atlanta, the 18 holes of the Crabapple layout comprise a demanding Tom Fazio design that first opened for play in 2002.
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Kapalua (Plantation) - Host to the annual Tournament of Champions, the Plantation course at the Kapalua Resort was fashioned around the closing hole, a 663-yard downhill and invariably downwind par five.
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Princeville (Prince) - The Prince course at Princeville is set on a huge 390-acre parcel of land which is elevated on a tropical basin featuring waterfalls, ravines and streams. It's an exciting and stimulating course.
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Hokuli'a - Nearly every hole of Jack’s Signature course at Hokuli’a provides breathtaking ocean views. “My first thought”, commented Nicklaus, “was, what a great location, beautiful views and windless.”
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Kuki’o - Tom Fazio created his first Hawaiian course at Kuki’o Golf & Beach Club in 2003 and it occupies a coastal site that rises more than 400 feet in elevation from lowest to highest point.
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Mauna Kea - Mauna Kea's 3rd is one of the most photographed golf holes in the world where the pounding blue Pacific Ocean combines with black lava rock, blue sky and lush green turf to create a most vivid image.
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Challenge at Manele - Set out on old lava fields above Hulopo’e Bay, the Challenge at Manele is a spectacular Jack Nicklaus course with fairways spread out along the southern cliffs of Lanai Island.
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Waialae - The venue for the Hawaiian Open since 1965, the course at Waialae Country Club is a much-modified Seth Raynor layout that sadly only retains fleeting glimpses of its original design.
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Hualalai (Weiskopf) - Set out on the Big Island’s Kona-Kohala Coast, this Tom Weiskopf-designed course is one of two 18-hole layouts to be found at the Hualalai resort. It’s a private track reserved for members but the other Nicklaus designed course is open to resort guests.
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Wailea (Gold) - Robert Trent Jones Jnr designed the Gold course at the 54-hole Wailea golf complex in 1994 and it sits on a challenging, compact tract of land that slopes from east to west on Maui’s southwest coastline.
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Poipu Bay - The course at Poipu Bay Golf Club hosted the end of season Grand Slam of Golf tournament from 1994 to 2006 before it moved to Bermuda. It’s a resort course that even the professionals enjoy, especially Phil Mickelson who shot a 59 in the second round of the 2004 Grand Slam.
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Experience at Koele - The Experience at Koele was one of Greg Norman’s first American projects, collaborating with Ted Robinson to produce a challenging layout that climaxes at the par four 17th, where the fairway drops over 250 feet from tee to green.
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Turtle Bay (Palmer) - George Fazio designed the first 18-hole layout at Turtle Bay Resort in 1971 and it was followed twenty years later by the Palmer course, designed by Arnie and Ed Seay. It’s been used in recent times to host events on both the LPGA and Champions Tour.
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Ko’olau - Dick Nugent built the course at Ko’olau Golf Club in 1992 and it’s a formidable test, even from the resort tees. Hewn from the tropical rain forest beside the towering Koolau Ridge mountain range, this layout offers a stiff challenge at each and every hole on the card.
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Mauna Lani (North) - The original 18-hole course at the Mauna Lani Resort opened for play in 1981. A decade later, it was split in two with a new 9-hole circuit added to each nine to form the North and South courses. The North, though slightly shorter than its twin, is rated the tougher of the two tracks.
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Mid Pacific - Seth Raynor laid out the original 9-hole course at Mid Pacific Country Club in Kailua on the island of Oahu in 1929. Twenty years would pass before another nine holes were added to complete the 18-hole layout.
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Kauai Lagoons (Kiele) - Situated beside Lihue airport on the south east coast of Kauai Island, Kauai Lagoons Golf Club recently renovated the back nine of its Jack Nicklaus-designed Kiele course, bringing three new holes into play.
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Hualalai (Nicklaus) - One of two 18-hole layouts to be found at the Hualalai resort, the Jack Nicklaus-designed course is the only one that’s open to resort guests. It’s also used as an early season venue on the Champions Tour circuit.
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Makai (Makai) - Robert Trent Jones Jnr designed the 18-hole Makai course at Makai Golf Club and he returned to renovate the layout before its grand reopening in 2010. The revamped course now boasts additional bunkers and tees, reconfigured greens and a new practice facility.
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Wailea (Emerald) - A year after building the Gold course at Wailea Golf Club in 1994, Robert Trent Jones Jnr came back to add another 18-hole design, the Emerald course, thus completing the 54-hole golfing element at a sprawling facility.
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Harvester - The Harvester Golf Club opened in 2000 and it’s perhaps architect Keith Foster’s finest original creation.
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Glen Oaks - Venue of the Principal Charity Classic on the PGA Champions Tour, the course at Glen Oaks Country Club is a 1994 Tom Fazio design that’s laid out within a residential development to the west of Des Moines.
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Wakonda - Site of the US Amateur Championship in 1963, the course at the Wakonda Club was set out on a somewhat constricted parcel of land by William Langford in 1922 and it’s one of the few Golden Age layouts worth visiting the Hawkeye State to play.
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Des Moines (North) - Due to the construction of a new highway on the site of its old course, Des Moines Golf & Country Club moved to its current site at the end of the 1960s, tasking Pete Dye with the design of two 18-hole courses, the longer and more difficult of which is the North layout.
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Davenport - A CH Alison design from 1924, the course at Davenport Country Club was remodelled by Bob Lohman in 2000 when he created a new 1st hole and realigned the 9th, moving the green close to Conduit Creek.
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Des Moines (South) - The South course is one of two challenging Pete Dye-designed layouts at Des Moines Golf & Country Club – where the US Senior Open was held in 1999 – and it’s rated only slightly easier than its sibling, the North.
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Spirit Hollow - Spirit Hollow Golf Course lies four and half miles south of Burlington and its fairways are laid out in two circuits, with the front nine routed around a residential development.
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Tournament Club of Iowa - Situated between Saylorville Lake and Big Creek State Park, the course at the Tournament Club of Iowa is an Arnold Palmer layout that brings water into play at more than half the holes on the card.
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Blue Top Ridge at Riverside - The Blue Top Ridge course at the Riverside Casino & Golf Resort is a Rees Jones design that debuted in 2009. Holes are laid out on the floodplain of the meandering Iowa River with several fairways routed around man-made lakes.
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Amana Colonies - Amana Colonies Golf Course opened for play in 1989 and its tree-lined fairways within a 600-acre forest offer golfers a feeling of complete and utter golfing seclusion.
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Black Rock, The Golf Club at - Architect Jim Engh, who once lost the only golf ball in Latvia, must have rubbed his hands together when he saw the site for his creation at The Golf Club at Black Rock.
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Huntsman Springs - When you see the finished, natural-looking course at Huntsman Springs, you would never believe that David McLay Kidd is reported to have shifted more than four million cubic yards of soil during its construction.
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Tamarack (Osprey Meadows) - The Robert Trent Jones Jnr-designed Osprey Meadows course at the Tamarack Resort is a rare beast indeed – a modern course that’s routed in an out and back fashion instead of being configured as two returning nines.
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Circling Raven - Located close to the state border with Washington, the 18 holes of the Circling Raven layout on the Coeur d’Alene Indian reservation meander around an expansive, moderately bunkered 620-acre site.
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Coeur d’Alene - Built on the site of an old sawmill, the course at the Coeur d’Alene resort is most famous for the floating green on the par three 14th hole where the distance from tee to putting surface is changed every day by computer control.
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Idaho Club - Jack Nicklaus reworked the old Hidden Lakes golf course amongst the waterways of the Pack River, creating the new 18-hole layout at the Idaho Club in 2008. It’s a testing layout with water featuring on all but two of the holes.
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Teton Springs (Headwaters) - Designed by an eclectic golfing triumvirate of Byron Nelson, Steve Jones and architect Gary Stephenson, the Teton Springs Lodge & Spa offers golfers 27 holes of golf (the 18-hole Headwaters course and 9-hole Nelson) at its Headwaters Club.
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Sun Valley (Trail Creek) - A 27-hole golf complex, the Sun Valley resort features the Trail Creek layout as its main 18-hole course. Particularly strong on the front nine, it also boasts two impressive par threes at holes 10 and 17 on the back nine.
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Whitetail - Designed by Andy North and architect Roger Packard, the forested front nine at Whitetail Club & Resort is routed around wetlands with holes on the more open back nine ending around a sparkling man-made lake.
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Cog Hill (No.4) - There are four courses at Cog Hill Golf & Country Club but the one most golfers want to play is the world-renowned No.4 course, otherwise known as "Dubsdread".
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Rich Harvest Farms - Rich Harvest Farms is a hilly course where a lake, lagoons and a creek are part of the setup. It is configured in a traditional nine out and nine back formation...
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Canyata - Canyata Golf Club (pronounced can-yay-tuh) was originally intended to be a 3-hole course, comprising a par three, four and five on part of the Forsythe family farm, but architect Michael Benkusky had other ideas.
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Skokie - Skokie Country Club played host to the 1922 US Open, the first at which tickets were sold. A record number of spectators witnessed a spectacular win by 20-year-old Gene Sarazen.
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Beverly - Beverly Country Club is bounded on all sides by Windy City suburbs and is routed in two rectangular parcels, with the front nine holes lying to the north of 87th Street and the back nine laid out on the other side...
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Olympia Fields (South) - A Steve Smyers upgrade in 2008 – when he reworked greens and bunkers, as well as adding extra yardage to the layout – sharpened the teeth of the South course at Olympia Fields Country Club to the extent that it’s now one of the best “relief” courses in the country.
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Conway Farms - Laid out on a 209-acre tract of gently undulating land, where four lakes come into play during the round, the course at Conway Farms Golf Club is a recently lengthened Tom Fazio design from 1991.
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Black Sheep - A few keen golfers, who wanted their own private male-only members club with an unpretentious and casual atmosphere, set up Black Sheep Golf Club in 1999.
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Knollwood - Site of the US Amateur Championships in 1956, the classic old parkland golf course at the Knollwood Club is a CH Alison layout from 1924 that has been altered in more recent times by Larry and Roger Packard.
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Chicago Highlands - The Arthur Hills-designed golf course at Chicago Highlands Club is just one of the many sporting amenities available at the first family country club to open in the western suburbs of the Windy City in more than eighty years.
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Flossmoor - The 18-hole layout at Flossmoor Country Club is a Herbert Tweedie design from 1900 then modified by Harry Collis before the club hosted the USPGA in 1920 and the US Amateur in 1923. A recent renovation by Ray Hearn has been well received by many commentators.
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Old Elm - The classic old course at the male-only Old Elm Club is situated 30 miles north of downtown Chicago. The design credits extend to Donald Ross and Harry Colt; the former constructing the layout from plans drawn up by the latter in 1913.
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Evanston - Evanston Golf Club’s course made its appearance on the Chicago golf scene in 1917. Some eighty years later, a sympathetic renovation by Ron Pritchard breathed new life into the old layout.
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Kemper Lakes - A private club since 2003, Kemper Lakes Golf Club hosted the USPGA Championships in 1989 and US Women’s Amateur in 1992, back in the days when it was still a public facility.
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North Shore Country Club - Founded in 1900, North Shore Country Club moved to its current Glenview location in 1924 when CH Alison designed the new 18-hole layout. The following decade, the golf course was duly recognised when it was selected to host both the US Open (1933) and US Amateur (1939).
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Bob O’Link - The all-male membership at Bob O’Link Golf Club plays on a course designed by Donald Ross in 1916 and completely renovated eight years later by CH Alison when additional land became available.
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Bull Valley - Bull Valley Golf Club is the reality of the dreams of three visionaries and is perhaps the most challenging and sensually stimulating course in the Midwest.
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Shepherd’s Crook - Keith Foster designed the Shepherd’s Crook golf course, which opened for play in 1999. Located in the Zion Park District, to the north of Chicago, the links-like course harks back to designs from the Golden Age and was fashioned with classic strategy in mind.
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Wynstone - Jack Nicklaus routed the fairways at the Wynstone Golf Club around a substantial residential development at the end of the 1980s, wrapping many of the holes around Lake Sheree.
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TPC Deere Run - Illinois native, DA Weibring, laid out the course at TPC Deere Run on a former Arabian horse ranch and it has been the venue for the PGA Tour’s John Deere Classic since 2000.
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Exmoor - Exmoor Country Club was inaugurated in 1896 and was a founding member of the Western Golf Association in 1899. One of the early clubs in the Chicago area, the Exmoor course in play today is largely a Donald Ross design from 1914.
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WeaverRidge - WeaverRidge Golf Club was created in the late 1990s making the very best use of a landscape formed thousands of years ago by retreating glacial action.
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Eagle Ridge (The General) - Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa offers 63 golf holes at four different courses, all of which were built by architect Roger Packard. The General, a co-design with Andy North, was the final layout to be unveiled here in 1997, applying the old maxim of saving the best until last.
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Ravisloe - Now open to the public, Ravisloe Country Club is a classic re-designed Donald Ross layout and one of the best public access experiences in the Chicago area.
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Cantigny (Woodside & Lakeside) - The parkland golf course at Cantigny is laid out in three 9-hole circuits that present all manner of challenges as they wind their way in and out of wooded areas, past a dozen lakes and a couple of creeks...
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Wolf Run - Wolf Run Golf Club is set in more than 200 acres of dense woodland with Eagle Creek cutting through the property.
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Sycamore Hills - The Sycamore Hills Golf Club site undulates gently with the narrow Aboite River having been used to great effect. Mature sycamore, oak and fir trees frame many holes.
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French Lick (Pete Dye) - The Pete Dye layout at French Lick opened for play at a reputed cost of $28m in 2009. The golf course occupies a difficult site that required 2.5 million cubic yards of earth to be moved during construction.
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French Lick (Donald Ross) - The Donald Ross layout dates back to 1916 when it was the second 18-hole golf course to be commissioned at the French Lick Resort (following an earlier Tom Bendelow design). Some consider the Ross course to be the best Golden Age design at any resort in the country.
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Prairie View - Designed by Robert Trent Jones Jnr, the fairways at Prairie View Golf Club are laid out in two distinct groupings; the front nine holes are set out in open country whilst the back nine meander through forested terrain.
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Sagamore - The Sagamore Golf Club operates within a residential development situated close to Noblesville and the members’ course is a modern Jack Nicklaus design that debuted in 2003.
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Purgatory - Set on a generous 218-acre site, Purgatory Golf Club can play anything from 4,400 to 7,754 yards so it can be set up as the shortest or the longest 18-hole course in the Hoosier State. Golfers electing to play from the tips need to be on their game to avoid carding a round from hell.
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Fort - Laid out within a redeveloped parcel of land on the old Fort Benjamin Harrison US Army post, the course at The Fort Golf Resort is a Pete Dye and Tim Liddy layout that made its first appearance in 1997.
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Woodland - Architect Bill Diddel constructed the original 18-hole course at Woodland Country Club in the 1950s and this layout was given a full makeover by Pete Dye fifty years later.
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Otter Creek (North & West) - Robert Trent Jones Snr designed the North and West nines at Otter Creek in 1964 and they comprise the main 18-hole golf course at this 27-hole facility. Rees Jones added another circuit - the East nine - thirty years after his father’s fairways were first fashioned here.
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Rock Hollow - Built by Tim Liddy, the course at Rock Hollow Golf Club sits on a 300-acre site that was reclaimed from an old gravel pit belonging to a local aggregate manufacturing company.
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Warren - Indiana - Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore laid out the Warren golf course at Notre Dame in 1999 and it has since hosted a number of high profile competitions, including the US Women’s Amateur Public Links Championships.
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Brickyard Crossing - One of a select number of courses to host PGA, LPGA and Champions Tour events, the 18-hole layout at Brickyard Crossing has four of its fairways (at holes 7 to 10) located inside the oval of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway track.
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Harrison Hills - Situated 25 miles to the south west of Lafayette, the course at Harrison Hills Golf and Country Club was set out by William Langford in 1924, with Tim Liddy carrying out an upgrade seventy years later.
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Broadmoor - Broadmoor Country Club’s Donald Ross-designed course was inaugurated in 1922 and it still retains its Golden Age charm, despite the fact that playing corridors have narrowed somewhat by the growth of trees down the years.
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Culver Academies - Laid out close to the northern shore of Lake Maxinkuckee, the golf course at Culver Academies is a 9-hole design by William Langford and Theodore Moreau that dates back to 1924. Original sand bunkers have been grassed over now but they still form formidable hazards.
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South Bend - Formed in 1916, South Bend Country Club hosted the Western Open in 1935 and, in recent years, its course has been chosen as the venue for a number of prestigious Indiana state events.
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Belterra - The fairways of the Tom Fazio-designed course at the Belterra Casino Resort lie on the flood plain of the Ohio River and the layout is ranked as one of the best casino golf courses in the country.
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Flint Hills National - Flint Hills National Golf Club is situated fifteen miles east of Witchita in a hilly location covering around 240 acres. This private course was designed by Tom Fazio at a reputed cost of $18m...
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Kansas City - The classic old AW Tillinghast-designed course at Kansas City Country Club has been renovated a number of times - most notably by Robert Trent Jones Snr - but it still retains much of its Golden Age charm.
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Shadow Glen - Occupying a rather hilly site to the north east of Olathe, the fairways at the Shadow Glen Golf Club are routed along rocky ridges and through wooded valleys.
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Colbert Hills - Laid out on the Kansas Flint Hills to the north west of Manhattan, the 18 holes at Colbert Hills were fashioned by the design partnership of Champions Tour player Jim Colbert and architect Jeff Brauer.
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Hallbrook - Located in the southern suburbs of Kansas and with many of the fairways routed around housing, the course at Hallbrook Country Club is a very tough test of golf where tight fairways and heavily contoured greens contribute to the level of difficulty.
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Wolf Creek Golf Links - The course at the all-male club of Wolf Creek Golf Links was extensively renovated in 2006 when greens were replaced, bunkers renewed and irrigation facilities improved.
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Southwind - The Golf Club at Southwind occupies an open site to the south of Garden City where housing bounds the perimeter of the course. Half a dozen ponds help to heighten the challenge during the middle of a round here.
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Sand Creek Station - Built on either side of the railway line into Newton, the golf course at Sand Creek Station features a replica of the world famous Road Hole green at the par five 16th hole.
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Sycamore Ridge - With a front nine occupying a gently undulating landscape and a back nine laid out in forested terrain, the 18 holes on the Sycamore Ridge golf course are set out in two distinct circuits.
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Valhalla - Jack did a bit of earth moving on the front nine at Valhalla which is fashioned in a links-style with fairways that pitch and roll through a fairly flat, low-lying and open valley.
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Idle Hour - Ron Pritchard recently reworked the old 1925 Donald Ross course at Idle Hour Country Club, restoring bunkers and adding length to the layout.
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Big Spring - Host to the USPGA Championship in 1952, the course at Big Spring Country Club has been altered a number of times down the years by the likes of William Diddel, Larry Packard, Arthur Hills and, most recently, Rees Jones in 2004.
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Olde Stone - Opened for members play in 2006, the Club at Olde Stone came from the burgeoning portfolio of veteran architect Arthur Hills.
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Champion Trace - An Arthur Hills design that debuted in 1988, the fairways at Champion Trace Golf Club are routed around a residential development to the south west of Lexington.
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Persimmon Ridge - The 18-hole layout at Persimmon Ridge Golf Club nestles in the gently rolling landscape of Shelby County. Many contend that the heavily contoured greens are the course’s greatest attribute.
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Hurstbourne (Championship) - Keith Foster upgraded the Championship golf course at Hurstbourne Country Club in 2005, significantly modifying the bunkers during the restoration process.
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Old Silo - Unveiled in 2000, the Old Silo golf course was the first that Graham Marsh designed in the United States. Somerset Creek wanders through the layout, affecting play at a couple of holes on both the front and back nine.
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Kearney Hill - Venue for the US Amateur Public Links Championship in 1997, the Kearney Hill golf course in northwest Lafayette County is a Pete and PB Dye layout that debuted only eight years before it gained prominence by hosting a national competition.
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Heritage Hill - Situated within a mixed landscape of woodland and farmland on the banks of the Salt River, the course at Heritage Hill Golf Club is a Doug Beach layout that first opened its doors to golfers in the Bluegrass State in 2007.
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Squire Creek - Unveiled in 2003, Tom Fazio’s course at Squire Creek Country Club occupies a prominent position within an 1,100-acre residential development that lies to the north of Louisiana state.
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Bluffs - It’s said that Arnold Palmer had eight different routings mapped out before he finally chose the eighteen holes that constitute the course at The Bluffs Country Club and Resort.
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Louisiana, Country Club of - Fairways at the Country Club of Louisiana are laid out around residential units with several holes routed alongside Selene Bayou. Unusually for a Jack Nicklaus design, five of the greens are totally devoid of any sand protection.
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Oakbourne - Located sixty miles from downtown Baton Rouge, the course at Oakbourne Country Club was established in 1958 by Dick Wilson and later upgraded by Joe Finger and Ken Dye.
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TPC Louisiana - The 18-hole layout at TPC Louisiana has hosted the Zurich Classic event on the PGA Tour since 2005 where Pete Dye’s stadium course design allows spectators to get up close and personal to the competing professionals.
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Southern Trace - The Arthur Hills-designed golf course at Southern Trace Country Club is a late 1980s design with fairways spanning a variety of landscapes, from pine valleys through open meadow to oak woods.
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Gray Plantation - Water flanks many of the fairways on the Gray Plantation golf course – the front nine lies close to a bend in the Calcasieu River and the back nine plays around Lake Matilda.
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Koasati Pines - The Koasati Pines 18-hole course at the Coushatta Casino Resort is configured in two 9-hole loops each of which start and finish with a demanding par five.
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Black Bear - The only state owned and operated golf course in the Pelican State, the pay-and-play layout at Black Bear Golf Club offers an interesting variety of tree-lined and open holes.
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English Turn - The PGA Tour’s New Orleans Open was held at English Turn Golf and Country Club on seven occasions between 1989 and 2006. Designed by Jack Nicklaus, the course has water in play at each and every one of its 18 holes.
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Sugarloaf - The Robert Trent Jones Jnr course at Sugarloaf Golf Club has been rated one of the top tracks in Maine ever since it debuted in 1985. A demanding layout that throws up some spectacular, plunging holes.
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Sunday River - Situated on a hillside close to the state border with New Hampshire, the forested mountain course at Sunday River Golf Club is a Robert Trent Jones Jnr design that first opened for public play in 2005.
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Belgrade Lakes - Belgrade Lakes Golf Club is Clive Clark's first US design. With its eighteen unique holes this course has been labelled "a gem in the wilderness".
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Portland Country Club - Founded in 1895, Portland Country Club moved to its present coastal location twenty years after its formation. Shortly after, Donald Ross designed an 18-hole layout for the club and this relatively short course is still the one that members play today.
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Samoset - A golf course has been in play at Samoset Resort since 1902 when fairways were set out on a rocky headland overlooking Penobscot Bay. Local architect Brad Booth has upgraded the layout in recent times, adding more bite to the challenge.
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Taconic - Laid out on the Williams College campus in the Berkshire Mountains, Taconic Golf Club is one of the best collegiate courses in the country.
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Winchester - Built on the side of a hill next to the west shore of Upper Mystic Lake, the fairways at Winchester Country Club are laid out side by side due to the lie of the land...
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Nantucket - You’ll need to get airborne or test your sea legs if you’re lucky enough to be invited to play Nantucket Golf Club.
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Hyannisport - An Alex Findlay golf course that Donald Ross redesigned in the mid-1930s, the Hyannisport Club layout weaves around the tidal marshes of Nantucket Sound. Although the combined length of the fairways is a mere 6,257 yards, they’re hard to navigate when the wind gets up.
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Longmeadow - Located close to the Connecticut state line, the 18-hole layout at Longmeadow Country Club is divided by a main road with holes 2 to 9 laid out on the north side and the remainder set out on the other side.
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Eastward Ho! - Herbert Fowler, the esteemed English golf course architect – best known for his work at Walton Heath and The Berkshire – was the man responsible for creating this classic Eastward Ho! layout...
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Charles River - Host for the stroke-play qualifying rounds for the US Amateur Championship in 2013, the course at Charles River Country Club dates back to 1921 and it’s one of the most authentic Donald Ross layouts to be found in New England.
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Brae Burn - Venue of the US Open in 1919, the US Amateur in 1928, the Curtis Cup in 1958 and 1970 and the US Women’s Amateur in 1906, 1975 and 1997, the course at Brae Burn Country Club has hosted more than its fair share of top golf competitions.
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Black Rock Country Club - In 2002, Brian Silva stylishly shaped the 18-hole layout at Black Rock Country Club on the site of an old quarry, routing the fairways over, around and between substantial rocky outcrops.
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Oyster Harbors - Essentially a private island resort situated on the southern shore of Cape Cod, The Oyster Harbors Club was formed in the mid-1920s by developer Norris W. Norris who enlisted Donald Ross to design a solid golf course that still remains largely intact today.
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Sankaty Head - One of the few examples of links-style golf outside of Britain & Ireland, Sankaty Head Golf Club has honourable traditions much more akin to the greatest golf clubs on the other side of the Atlantic.
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Worcester Country Club - Everyone interested in golf knows, or ought to know, that Worcester Country Club hosted the inaugural Ryder Cup match between the USA and Great Britain in 1927.
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TPC Boston - Designed by Ed Seay with Arnold Palmer in 2002, the golf course at TPC Boston underwent a significant renovation by Gil Hanse in 2007 and this work has greatly enhanced the strategic challenge.
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Vineyard - Laid out in an isolated setting on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, the firm and fast fairways, revetted bunkers and sloping greens of the course at Vineyard Golf Club evoke a distinctive style of heathland golf.
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Red Tail - Brian Silva carved the fairways at Red Tail Golf Club out of the forest on the old army base at Fort Devens. The 17th hole is not called “Bunkers” because of sand traps found on the hole; instead, the name refers to old ammunition bunkers situated at the side of the green.
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Turner Hill - Centrepiece of a new millennium residential development, the course at the Golf Club of Turner Hill is a Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry ensemble that opened for play in 2004. Unusually, a round here concludes with a short par three that plays across water to a two-tier green.
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Whitinsville - Situated in Blackstone Valley, the course at Whitinsville Golf Club was established by Donald Ross in the mid-1920s and it’s widely regarded as one of the best 9-hole layouts in the entire country.
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Cape Cod National - Cape Cod National Golf Club was designed by Brian Silva and opened for play in 1998. Already used as a US Open Qualifier and one of the premier layouts in Massachusetts.
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Caves Valley - Venue for the US Senior Open in 2002, the Tom Fazio-designed course at Caves Valley Golf Club sits amidst the rolling hills of Baltimore County with many of the fairways routed through attractive areas of woodland.
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Bulle Rock - The Bulle (pronounced Bully) Rock golf course is named after the first thoroughbred horse brought to the US from England in the 18th century...
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Columbia - An old Walter Travis layout from 1916, the course at Columbia Country Club hosted the US Open five years after it first opened for play. Since then, little has altered on any of the holes.
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Four Streams - Nick Price teamed up with architect Steve Smyers to produce the golf course at The Members Club at Four Streams in 1998. It’s a layout that sits nicely on a pleasantly rolling Maryland landscape.
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Congressional (Gold) - Originally laid out in 1924, the Gold course at Congressional Country Club was redesigned by Arthur Hills in 2000 though the best holes on the card may still be two of the Devereux Emmet originals, the 1st and the 18th.
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Lighthouse Sound - With fairways laid out alongside the tidal marshes of Assawomen Bay, The Links at Lighthouse Sound was constructed with almost 700 yards of wooden walkways to protect the wetland areas from golfers playing in and around these sensitive natural areas.
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Burning Tree - The golf course at the private, all-male Burning Tree Club is one of Charles Alison’s rare American designs, dating back to 1923. Apart from some Robert Trent Jones bunkering work after World War II, the layout remains much as Harry Colt’s associate intended eighty years ago.
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Woodmore, Country Club at - An Arnold Palmer design from 1981, the fairways of the Country Club at Woodmore are laid out around a large lake in the middle of the property and it’s this substantial body of water that threatens the second and third shots at the tough par five finishing hole.
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Maryland National - Maryland National Golf Club’s course is set within the rolling Catoctin Mountain foothills and holes are routed through areas of woodland and wetland with some surprisingly dramatic elevation changes incorporated into the design.
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Chevy Chase - Donald Ross originally established the course at the Chevy Chase Club in 1910 but Charles Alison completely reworked the layout in 1922. An upgrade of greens and bunkers by Arthur Hills in 1997 has now given this classic old course a new lease of life.
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Bethesda - The old 9-holer at Bethesda Country Club was extended to an 18-hole course in 1949 then, a decade later, Ed Ault redesigned the layout when holes were lost to the construction of a new highway. Arthur Hills then carried out a four-year renovation program in the mid 1990s.
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Lost Dunes - Set on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, Lost Dunes Golf Club, designed by Tom Doak, is set dramatically in a former sand quarry with towering dunes surrounding it.
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Dunes Club - With Pine Valley-like waste areas, stunning tee to green conditioning and dramatic bunkering, the “walking only” Dunes Club is an American rarity.
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TPC Potomac - Set in 220 acres of rolling woodland within a sizeable residential property, the course at TPC Potomac underwent a recent renovation that cost in excess of twenty million dollars. It’s now a longer, tougher test for amateur and professional player alike.
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Whiskey Creek - The course at Whiskey Creek Golf Club was Ernie Els’s first foray into the world of design. It was here that The Big Easy collaborated with architect J. Michael Poellet of JMP Design to lay out a stellar set of strategic golf holes.
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Arcadia Bluffs - Arcadia Bluffs Golf Club runs dramatically along the Michigan shoreline and the course drops more than 200 feet from its highest point down to the cliffs which themselves are 150 feet above the lake.
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Tullymore - Tullymore Golf Club is routed through woods and water with the Shinglebolt Creek meandering into play on a few holes.
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Swan Point - Located on the banks of the Potomac River, the 9-hole track at Swan Point Yacht and Country Club was doubled in size during the late 1980s by Bob Cupp. Twelve of the holes on the expanded layout now feature water hazards or marshland.
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Lodestone - Designed by Hale Irwin in conjunction with architect Todd Schoeder, the mountain course at Lodestone Golf Club sits on a ridge above Deep Creek Lake with fairways routed around eye-catching rocky outcrops.
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Forest Dunes - Located way off the beaten track, at a latitude further north than Toronto in Canada, the Tom Weiskopf-designed Forest Dunes Golf Club lies within a 1,200-acre estate...
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Point O' Woods - Trent Jones routed Point O’ Woods across some 350 acres of rolling terrain and the club is home to one of the country’s most important amateur tournaments, the Western Amateur Championship.
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Woodholme - The Woodholme Country Club layout is a somewhat underrated Herbert Strong design from the late 1920s. Some feel that shortening one or two of the four par fives on the back nine to long par fours would turn this classic old course into a serious championship layout.
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Woodmont (North) - The North is the longer and tougher of the two 18-hole courses that were laid out at Woodmont Country Club in the 1950s. Both Bob Cupp and Arthur Hills have since renovated the layout.
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Marquette (Greywalls) - Tom Doak’s apprentice, Mike DeVries, designed the Greywalls golf course at Marquette Golf Club and it opened for play in 2005 to a standing ovation.
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Franklin Hills - A wonderful old Donald Ross golf course that has remained largely intact since it first opened in 1926, Franklin Hills Country Club is laid out on a tight tract of land to the north west of Detroit.
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Lake Presidential - Developed by the Landmark Land Company, who created the golf facilities at South Carolina’s Kiawah Island and California’s PGA West, the course at Lake Presidential Golf Club is a Jeff Potts design that’s set in two loops of nine around a large, sparkling lake.
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Indianwood (Old) - Both the Old and New courses at Indianwood Golf & Country Club are links-like in style but the Old course is the most authentic of the two designs with numerous, deep pot bunkers and waving fescue grasses.
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Detroit, Country Club of - The Country Club of Detroit commissioned Harry Colt to design the golf course at Grosse Pointe Farms in 1912. Robert Trent Jones Snr remodelled it half a century later, prior to the club hosting the 1954 US Amateur Championships and he returned 40 years later to carry our further work.
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University of Michigan - The University of Michigan Golf Course is home to the Wolverine men's and women's golf teams. Designed by Alister MacKenzie, the course opened in 1931 and underwent a $3.3 million restoration in 1992.
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Elk Ridge - Situated within a heavily forested site that lies more than 200 miles to the north of Detroit, the rolling fairways at Elk Ridge Golf Club made their first appearance on the Northern Michigan golf scene in 1991.
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Black Lake - Owned by the United Auto Workers union, the course at Black Lake Golf Club was literally carved from woodland flanking the southern shores of Black Lake by Rees Jones in 2000.
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True North - The 18 holes at True North Golf Club were hewn from dense woodland overlooking the shores of nearby Little Traverse Bay and fairways rise and fall with regularity during a roller coaster round here.
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Treetops (Masterpiece) - Robert Trent Jones Snr’s 18-hole Masterpiece course is the premier layout within the massive 81-hole golf complex at the Treetops Resort. The 180-yard 6th is the signature hole on the card, with its elevated tee offering wonderful views across Pigeon River Valley.
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Belvedere - Belvedere Golf Club dates back to 1925 and within two years of its formation, Willie Watson, the head pro at the Chicago Club, had fashioned eighteen fairways for the members with the assistance of five teams of horses and a workforce of one hundred and fifty men.
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Wuskowhan Players - With fairways routed around wetlands next to Pigeon River, many of the holes at the Wuskowhan Players Club require substantial carries over marshy ground from tee to fairway or fairway to green.
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Shepherd’s Hollow (1-18) - Holes 1 to 18 form the golf course of choice at the 27-hole Shepherd’s Hollow Golf Club where fairways wind their way round a densely wooded property that’s been leased from a religious order.
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Bay Harbor (Links & Quarry) - Opened in 1997, the 27-hole facility at Bay Harbor Golf Club has been delighting golfers in the Wolverine State for over a decade. Holes on the Links nine are set along the bluffs overlooking Lake Michigan and the Quarry fairways work their way around an enormous shale quarry.
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Eagle Eye - Pete Dye designed the layout at Eagle Eye Golf Club and, just like the old master’s TPC at Sawgrass (Stadium) course, there’s an island green to be negotiated here at the short 17th hole.
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TimberStone at Pine Mountain - Set within 240 acres of dense woodland, the TimberStone course at Pine Mountain Golf and Ski Resort is a challenging Jerry Matthews design that first opened for play in 1996.
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Red Hawk - Hewn from a densely forested landscape, the fairways at Red Hawk Golf Club undergo many changes of elevation between first tee and final green during a round here.
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Black Forest at Wilderness Valley - The Black Forest golf course at Wilderness Valley is one of Tom Doak’s earlier designs that opened for play in 1992. Not only is this one of the best public courses in Northern Michigan, it’s also one of the toughest, with a scary 147 slope rating from the tips.
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Lakewood Shores (The Gailes) - The Blackshire, Serradella and Gailes courses comprise the 54-hole golfing element at the Lakewood Shores Resort with the double greens and revetted bunkers of the Gailes layout designed to bring a touch of Scottish-style golf to the shores of Lake Huron.
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Oakland Hills (North) - Totally overshadowed by the South course at Oakland Hills Country Club, the North is a much-altered Donald Ross design from 1923 that provides a rather tame test when compared to that offered by its older sibling.
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Wyndgate - The semi-private 18-hole course at Wyndgate Country Club is a Craig Schreiner design from 2002 where fairways weave between natural wetland areas and sparkling ponds.
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Angels Crossing - Now owned by the village of Vicksburg to the south of Kalamazoo, Angels Crossing Golf Club is one of Michigan’s unsung public access courses. Bruce Matthews designed this natural lie-of-the-land course in 2001 on an undulating 350-acre site.
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Iron Horse - Such is the difficult nature of the Big Mountain terrain over which the course at Iron Horse Golf Club is routed, there’s more than 500 feet of elevation change during the round here.
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Spanish Peaks - Tom Weiskopf was responsible for laying out the fairways of The Club at Spanish Peaks in 2007. The course is situated at an altitude of 7,000 feet above sea level with holes weaving their way through acres of pine forest.
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Stock Farm - Surrounded by stunning mountain scenery, Tom Fazio’s course at Stock Farm Club is the centrepiece of an attractive residential development in Bitterroot Valley.
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Old Works - Built on the site of Anaconda’s old copper smelter, the course at Old Works Golf Club is a Jack Nicklaus design that took four years to construct. An old brick smokestack still looms over a layout where fairways are bunkered with crushed black slag instead of sand.
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Spring Hill - Seven of the tree-lined fairways at Spring Hill Golf Club lie to the north of a major highway that bisects the course. It’s a tough Tom Fazio track that meanders around a number of ponds and wetland areas.
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Giants Ridge (Quarry) - Jeff Brauer designed the golf facility at Giants Ridge Golf & Ski Resort and his longer, more difficult Quarry course – built on the site of a former mine – provides the premier test at this 36-hole complex.
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White Bear Yacht Club - With modest length, White Bear Yacht Club requires accuracy rather than length from the tee. If you suffer from a lack of balance, it might not be the golf course for you as you will is seldom get a flat stance.
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Windsong Farm - The firm of Fought and Lehman fashioned the course at Windsong Farm Golf Club but the duo have since separated to form their own independent design companies.
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Minikahda - Minikahda – whose name comes from two Sioux Indian words meaning “by the side of the water” – dates back to 1898 when an amazing total of 600 members formed the club...
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Northland - Founded in 1898, the golf course at Northland Country Club – as its name suggests – lies way up north, near the Canadian border...
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Somerby - Tom Lehman, one of the North Star State’s favourite golfing sons, teamed up with architect John Fought to create this challenging track at Somerby Golf Club in 2004.
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Somerset - Members of Somerset Country Club will celebrate the centenary of their course’s formation in 2019. It’s an old Seth Raynor design that has been substantially altered (not always for the better) down the years.
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Golden Valley - Completely surrounded by housing, with a road and railway track cutting through the property, the old AW Tillinghast course at Golden Valley Country Club does its very best to keep the modern world at bay.
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Madden’s (Classic) - The Classic course is the latest of three 18-hole courses to appear at Madden’s on Gull Lake Resort. Whilst the other two courses are short, user-friendly layouts, the Classic is a more testing design that weaves in and out of wetland areas within a forested site.
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Wilderness at Fortune Bay - Set on the Vermillion Lake Indian Reservation, the Wilderness at Fortune Bay layout is one of the best casino golf courses in the country. Fairways have been carved through an undulating forested landscape with rocky outcrops featuring on a number of holes.
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Woodhill Country Club - Wedged between two main highways on the western outskirts of Minneapolis, the course at Woodhill Country Club is a strong Donald Ross layout that dates back to 1917.
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Giants Ridge (Legend) - Jeff Braur designed the 36-hole golf complex at Giant’s Ridge Golf & Ski Resort and The Legend was the first of his 18-hole layouts to debut in 1997, six years before the Quarry layout arrived.
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Grand View Lodge (Deacon’s Lodge) - When it first opened for play in 1999, Arnold Palmer’s Deacon’s Lodge course was the last layout to be unveiled at the Grand View Lodge resort’s 72-hole golf complex.
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Rochester Golf & Country Club - The course at Rochester Golf & Country Club is an A W Tillinghast design that has, down the years, become a sterner challenge due to the growth of pine trees planted along the playing corridors.
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Minneapolis - Venue for the USPGA Championships in 1959, the course at Minneapolis Golf Club is a Willie Park Jnr design from 1916 that was rerouted by Donald Ross four years later to accommodate a new clubhouse location.
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TPC Twin Cities - Featuring an Arnold Palmer signature beach bunker on the short par four 7th hole, the King’s course at TPC Twin Cities was constructed by Arnie in collaboration with Tom Lehman.
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StoneRidge - Bobby Weed laid out the 18 holes at StoneRidge Golf Club in 2000 and he constructed the course as a links-like layout with bentgrass fairways bounded by native fescue grass.
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Legends - Built within a large, lake-laden property that lies between Prior Lake and Lakeville, the course at Legends Golf Club weaves its way around a number of menacing water hazards.
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Dacotah Ridge - Laid out on a gently rolling landscape, the course at Dacotah Ridge Golf Club is characterised by trademark Rees Jones bunker complexes.
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St Louis - Opened in 1914, the course at Saint Louis Country Club sits on a tight parcel of land in the suburb of Ladue, ten miles west of St Louis city centre...
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Willingers - Set within a 275-acre site, the Willingers Golf Club course offers a game of two halves; the front nine is routed around water and wetlands with the back nine carved through a large forest.
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Minnesota Valley - Formerly known as Bloomington Country Club, Minnesota Valley Country Club is the proud owner of a Seth Raynor course dating back to 1924 that features a selection of replica holes like the Redan 2nd, the Biarritz 7th and Eden 12th.
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Dalhousie - Featuring attractive Alister MacKenzie-style bunkers, the Gary Nicklaus-designed course at The Dalhousie Golf Club is quite a departure from what many would consider a typical Nicklaus Design layout.
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Town & Country Club - The origins of the Town & Country Club of Saint Paul can be traced back to 1893 when a Scot named George McCree laid out a 9-hole course for the members. It’s quite a historical track as it’s the second oldest golf course in the country (after Shinnecock Hills) where golf is still played.
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Bellerive - The golf course at Bellerive Country Club is routed round a winding creek, which is a feature on nine holes. With large undulating greens and bold bunkering this is certainly a firm tournament favourite...
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Old Warson - Old Warson Country Club opened for play in 1954 and it’s one of Missouri’s finest layouts. Designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr., this undulating, tree-lined layout is a classic...
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Boone Valley - Venue for the US Junior Amateur Championship in 2007, the course at Boone Valley Golf Club is a PB Dye layout that also hosted the Boone Valley Classic event on the PGA Senior Tour from 1996 to 2000.
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St Albans (Tavern Creek) - The 36-hole golf complex at the Country Club of St Albans lies inside an enormous 5,400-acre residential property with fairways set out along scenic mountain valleys. The Tavern Creek course arrived in 1997, five years after the 18-hole Lewis & Clark layout.
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Porto Cima - The Nicklaus Signature course at the Club at Porto Cima on the Lake of the Ozarks is the centerpiece of a private residential development.
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St Albans (Lewis & Clark) - Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish established the Lewis & Clark course at the Country Club of St Albans in 1992 and it’s one of two highly rated 18-hole layouts to be found at the best 36-hole facility in Missouri.
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Branson Creek - Located in the picturesque Ozark region of Missouri, the tree-lined layout at Branson Creek Golf Club is a Tom Fazio design that’s rated as one of the best public access courses in the United States.
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Old Kinderhook - Set out on the west side of the Lake of the Ozarks, the semi-private course at Old Kinderhook Resort & Golf Club is a Tom Weiskopf layout that blends in beautifully with its lakeside setting.
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Fallen Oak - Located deep in Mississippi’s De Soto National Forest, Fallen Oak Golf Club comes from the same Las Vegas, MGM Mirage stable as Shadow Creek.
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Old Waverly - The raison d’être of the Old Waverly Golf Club is "capturing the essence of the Scottish Highlands within the graceful setting of the Old South."
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Annandale - Venue for the PGA Tour’s True South Classic since it moved from Hattiesburg Country Club in 1994, the course at Annandale Golf Club is a Jack Nicklaus design that weaves around a number of sizeable lakes on a gently undulating property.
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Dancing Rabbit (Azaleas) - One of a pair of thickly forested courses at Dancing Rabbit Golf Club, the slightly longer Azaleas layout debuted in 1997, two years before the unveiling of the Oaks course.
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Canebrake - As golfers play through wetlands, across lakes and past residential pockets during a round at Canebrake Country Club, it could be said that the fairways are routed around a somewhat varied landscape.
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Grand Bear - The level of challenge on the forested Grand Bear golf course depends largely on the choice of tee – do you want a walk in the park from the Teddy Bear Tees or a really testing time from the Grizzly Bear Tees?
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Reunion - Situated on the historic Annandale Plantation, the course at Reunion Golf and Country Club has been used in recent times for USGA Amateur Qualifying in the state of Mississippi.
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Hattiesburg - Hattiesburg Country Club hosted the PGA Tour’s True South Classic (when it was known as the Magnolia Classic) from 1968 to 1993, during Masters week in April.
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Dancing Rabbit (Oaks) - Tom Fazio and Jerry Pate laid out the thirty-six holes at Dancing Rabbit Golf Club in the late 1990s with the Oaks course rated the tougher of the two 18-hole tracks.
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Bridges at Hollywood Casino - Laid out on wetlands adjoining the Bay of St Louis in 2006, the Bridges Golf Club at Hollywood Casino was the first Arnold Palmer Signature course to open in the Magnolia State.
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Eagle Point - North Carolina - Routed close to the Intracoastal Waterway and the Atlantic further east, the Eagle Point layout can stretch to 7,170 yards from the tips and it plays tough when there’s a freshening wind.
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Diamond Creek Golf Club - Diamond Creek Golf Club is set into the Blue Ridge Mountains at an elevation of 4,000 feet. The mountain scenery here is nothing short of breathtaking and it’s hard to concentrate on the golf...
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Quail Hollow - Located in Charlotte, North Carolina, Quail Hollow Club burst into the limelight in 2003 as the host venue of the Wachovia Championship, which has become an important event on the PGA Tour.
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Mountaintop - The course at Mountaintop Golf & Lake Club was fashioned by Tom Fazio and it’s set within a private retreat in the Carolina Blue Ridge Mountains where fairways blend in beautifully with the flowing landscape.
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Grandfather - Grandfather is the highest of the Blue Ridge Mountain peaks and at the feet of the old man nestles Grandfather Golf and Country Club.
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Pine Needles - Laid out in 1927 Pine Needles is one of Donald Ross’s best creations. Most people head to North Carolina to play the courses at Pinehurst but overlook Pine Needles at your peril.
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Champion Hills - Tom Fazio, the Champion Hills golf course architect, describes the 18 holes here as a layout that “looks hard but plays easy” and somehow he’s routed the fairways such that fourteen holes play downhill.
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Old Town - Perry Maxwell took advantage of the hills to create a brilliant set of undulating greens with steep swales and strong contours at the Old Town Club.
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Dormie Club - Another minimalist creation from the Coore & Crenshaw design team, Dormie Club lies to the north of the Pinehurst Resort in a tract of sandy, wooded terrain that extends to just over 300 acres. It’s a course that's bound to climb the rankings.
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Charlotte - Host to the US Women’s Amateur Championship in 2010, when Danielle Kang claimed the Robert Cox Cup for the second successive year, the course at Charlotte Country Club is a lovely old Donald Ross design that was recently renovated by Ron Pritchard.
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Forest Creek (North) - Behind the gates that lead to a substantial 1,200-acre residential site at Forest Creek Golf Club, are 37 holes that were laid out over the rolling sand hills of North Carolina by Tom Fazio.
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Biltmore Forest - Designed by Donald Ross in 1922 and lovingly restored by Brian Silva in 1998, the course at Biltmore Forest Country Club is set on a rolling landscape where a winding brook comes into play on a number of holes.
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Bright’s Creek - A Tom Fazio design from 2006, the residential course at Bright’s Creek Golf Club is a lengthy track that lies on some spectacular Blue Ridge terrain. On the front nine, three of the par fours measure in excess of 450 yards and both the par threes are over 220 yards from tee to green.
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Highlands - Bobby Jones practiced on the original 9-hole course at Highlands Country Club back in the late 1920s, just after Donald Ross laid it out. Today’s 18-hole course lies on either side of Highway 106 with tight, tree-lined fairways routed over heavily wooded, hilly terrain.
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Forest Creek (South) - One of two 18-hole Tom Fazio layouts at Forest Creek Golf Club, the South course opened for play in 1996, six years before its sibling, the North. Both courses lie within a 1,265-acre pine forest site, close to the famous Pinehurst Resort.
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North Carolina (Dogwood) - The Dogwood course at the Country Club of North Carolina is an Ellis Marples design that comprises half the golfing challenge at a fine 36-hole facility.
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Cliffs at Walnut Cove - Walnut Cove is the fourth of eight planned courses being built within an expansive residential development called the Cliffs Communities. A Jack Nicklaus signature course, it first opened for play in 2005.
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Mid Pines - Laid out on an undulating property close to Pinehurst, the resort course at Mid Pines Club is an understated Donald Ross design that first opened for play in 1921.
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Carolina Golf Club - The course at the Carolina Golf Club in Charlotte is a Donald Ross layout that dates back to 1929. Water comes into play at seven holes, most notably at the 373-yard 18th where a pond lies to the front and left of the home green.
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Roaring Gap - The Roaring Gap Club is a unique Donald Ross-designed mountain top layout with far reaching views from the fringe of the escarpment.
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Cardinal - Originally set out by Pete Dye in 1975, the course at Cardinal Golf & Country Club was renovated 30 years later when the same architect returned at the behest of McConnell Golf, the new owners, to upgrade the layout.
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Cape Fear - An 18-hole Donald Ross golf course from 1922, John LaFoy, Willard Byrd and Kris Spence have modified the layout at Cape Fear Country Club in recent times.
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Point Lake - The Point Lake and Golf Club is located on a peninsula that juts out into Lake Norman, the largest inland body of water in the Carolinas, with more than half the holes on the course set out along the edge of the lake.
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TPC at Wakefield Plantation - Designed in an understated manner by veteran golfer Hale Irwin, the tree-lined 18 holes at the TPC course are laid out on a 217-acre site within the Wakefield Plantation community in Raleigh, close to Falls Lake.
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Irish Creek - The Club at Irish Creek’s 18-hole layout is a Davis Love III design with fairways routed around an enormous 400-acre lake.
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Landfall (Dye) - The Country Club of Landfall sits within a surprisingly undulating landscape on the east side of Wilmington where members play this 1987 Pete Dye 18-hole course as well as 27-holes that were subsequently added by Jack Nicklaus.
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Sedgefield - Laid out by Donald Ross in 1926, the course at Sedgefield Country Club hosted the Greensboro Open 26 times between 1938 and 1976. Following a renovation by Kris Spence, golfers on the PGA Tour returned here to compete in the Wyndham Championship in 2008.
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Linville - Linville Golf Club was established in 1892 with members forming a 14-hole golf course by the end of the century. Donald Ross replaced these holes in 1924 and it’s the old master’s 18-hole layout that remains in play today.
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Rock Barn (Robert Trent Jones Jnr) - The Robert Trent Jones Jnr course at Rock Barn Golf & Spa is considered the more challenging of the two 18-hole layouts at this golf complex and the Greater Hickory Challenge event on PGA Champions Tour has been held here since 2003.
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Pinehurst (No.8) - Situated on the site of the old gun club, the No.8 course is the newest 18-hole layout to open at the resort. Tom Fazio laid out the fairways around a number of wetland areas in 1996, the year that Pinehurst celebrated its centenary.
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Old North State - The Old North State Club is a Tom Fazio gem that snakes its way across rolling ground and the peninsula wildlife sanctuary wetlands known as Uwharrie Point.
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Pinehurst (No.4) - Venue of the 2008 US Amateur Championship, Tom Fazio redesigned Donald Ross’s No.4 course at the Pinehurst Resort in 2000. The water holes at 13 and 14 are two of the finest on the property.
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Treyburn - Situated close to Little River Lake, the course at Treyburn Country Club is a 7,000-yard championship layout that Tom Fazio created in 1988.
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North Carolina (Cardinal) - The front nine holes of the Cardinal course at the Country Club of North Carolina were built by Willard Byrd in 1968 then he returned eleven years later with Robert Trent Jones Snr to add the back nine.
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Linville Ridge - Originally laid out by George Cobb, the mountain layout at Linville Ridge Country Club was given a complete makeover by Bobby Weed in 2008 when he upgraded many of the bunkers on the course.
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Tobacco Road - "Pine Valley on steroids" is how Tobacco Road Golf Club is billed. Cut through an old sand quarry, it’s certainly a unique Mike Strantz creation.
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Old Chatham - A new millennium offering from Rees Jones, the course at Old Chatham Golf Club is set within a 400-acre forested property reserved exclusively for golf.
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Longview - A Nicklaus Signature course, the18 holes of The Club at Longview are laid out on a 160-acre site where long distance views of Charlotte can be enjoyed from the higher points on the property.
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Links of North Dakota - The Links of North Dakota is routed across sandy ground on Lake Sakakawea – this huge body of water was created when part of the Missouri River was dammed.
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Hawktree - Located a couple of miles outside the state capital Bismark, the course at Hawktree Golf Club burst onto the golf scene at the end of the 1990s...
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Bully Pulpit - The Bully Pulpit Golf Course is located on the banks of the meandering Little Missouri River. Some fairways are laid out beside the water’s edge, some are routed through woodland and others play through the dramatic landscape of the North Dakota Badlands.
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Oxbow - Laid out on the west bank of the meandering Red River that separates North Dakota from Minnesota, Oxbow Country Club’s course is a Robert Trent Jones Jnr layout from 1974 that extends to a modest 6,621 yards from the back tees.
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King’s Walk - As the site for the course at King’s Walk was totally flat, Arnold Palmer moved over half a million cubic yards of soil to create some movement in the land before routing the fairways around the newly fashioned contours.
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Wild Horse - You’ll need to head for the prairies of Nebraska to play Wild Horse Golf Club, one of the best value courses in the US.
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Prairie Club (Dunes) - Tom Lehman and architect Chris Brands designed the 18-hole Dunes golf course at The Prairie Club, an eminently walkable out-and-back layout with wide fairways and enormous greens
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Firethorn (North & South) - The North and South nines form the premier 18-hole course at Firethorn Golf Club’s 27-hole facility. Built by Pete Dye, the old master described holes 11 to 14 as ”the best consecutive four holes I’ve ever designed”.
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Dismal River - Located only 14 miles from Sand Hills, the course at Dismal River Golf Club is bound to draw comparison with Coore and Crenshaw’s stellar layout. And so, on the sand dunes of Nebraska, some might say Jack Nicklaus proves with his 250th design that he really can do minimalism after all.
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Quarry Oaks - Laid out close to the fast flowing Platte River on the site of an old rock quarry, the tree-lined fairways at Quarry Oaks Golf Club were laid out by John La Foy in 1997.
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Omaha - Omaha Country Club - host to the US Senior Open in 1913 - was founded in 1899 but its course dates back to 1925 when Wayne Stiles and John Van Cleek laid out a new course for the members. Both Perry Maxwell in 1951 and Keith Foster in 2005 later renovated this layout.
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Champions Run - Jeff Brauer designed the Champions Run course in 1997 and it’s a layout that’s strong on strategy, exemplified by the dual fairways on both the 2nd and 18th holes.
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Players Club (Palmer Championship) - Set within a large residential development to the north west of Omaha, the Championship course at the Players Club is Arnold Palmer’s layout that debuted in 2000. The King returned in 2007 to expand the golf facility to 27-holes, adding the Highlands nine.
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ArborLinks - Located just outside Nebraska City, the lie-of-the-land course at ArborLinks was fashioned with minimal earth movement by Arnold Palmer prior to its unveiling in 2002.
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Galloway National - Galloway National Golf Club is routed through a glorious, gently undulating 200-acre parcel of land...
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Baltusrol (Upper) - The Upper course at Baltusrol Golf Club was laid out by the "Creator of Golf Courses", the legendary A. W. Tillinghast.
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Trump National (Old) - Bedminster - The Trump National Old course at Bedminster was designed by Tom Fazio and it opened for play as a private members track in 2004.
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Bayonne - Bayonne is dramatic and rather surreal as the course is located directly across the Hudson River from Wall Street where panoramic views of the Statue of Liberty and the Manhattan skyline create a quixotic backcloth.
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Hidden Creek - Set amidst pine, oak and maple in southern New Jersey, Hidden Creek was the brainchild of its owner, Roger Hansen, grandson of the Norwegian construction magnate Ole Hansen.
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Ridge at Back Brook - The Ridge at Back Brook’s 18-hole layout is a Tom Fazio course that debuted in 2002. Fairways are routed around a rather hilly property where rocky outcrops have to be negotiated occasionally.
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Metedeconk National (Front & Back) - Robert Trent Jones and Roger Rulewich carved the 27 holes at Metedeconk National Golf Club out of dense woodland. The Front and Back nines comprise the premier 18-hole course though the Third nine is regarded by some as an even tougher 9-hole circuit.
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Atlantic City - This venerable course has hosted national championships on several occasions over the years and Atlantic City Country Club claim to have coined the golfing term “birdie”.
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Liberty National - The iconic Statue of Liberty stands just over a mile from the par three 14th hole at Liberty National Golf Club where the course was laid out in 2006 on the New Jersey side of New York Harbor.
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Hamilton Farm (The Highlands) - The Highlands course grabs all the attention at Hamilton Farm Golf Club, and rightly so. Just don’t forget the other 18-hole layout here as The Hickory is the only USGA rated par three course in the whole country and also well worth playing.
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Trump National - Philadelphia - Located less than a couple of miles from Pine Valley Golf Club, the recently acquired course at Trump National - Philadelphia is a Tom Fazio 18-hole layout that was formerly owned by Pine Hill Golf Club.
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Mountain Ridge - An A.W. Tillinghast course that was redesigned by Donald Ross in 1931, the tree-lined eighteen holes at Mountain Ridge Country Club are set out yards from the main runway of Essex County Airport.
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Hollywood - Who knows, we may yet see the Women’s US Amateur Championships – won here in 1921 by Marion Hollins when she defeated Alexa Stirling 5&4 in the Final – return one year to the grand old Hollywood Golf Club?
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Essex County Country Club - Essex County Country Club is one of the elder statesmen of American golf, incorporated way back in 1887.
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Alpine Country Club - In 1931, A.W. Tillinghast was tasked with routing the course at Alpine Country Club over a forested, hilly property close to the Hudson River.
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Twisted Dune - Two million cubic yards of soil were shifted when Archie Struthers fashioned the fairways at Twisted Dune Golf Club, transplanting a wee flavour of Scottish links onto the Garden State landscape.
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Crystal Springs (Ballyowen) - One of seven courses offering a total of 117 holes at the Crystal Springs Golf Resort, the 18-hole Ballyowen layout sits on a 250-acre site with water coming into play at five of the holes.
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Pine Barrens - The course at Pine Barrens Golf Club was a pay-and-play facility until it became a private concern in 2008. Its tree-lined holes are laid out on a sandy soiled landscape with waste bunkers flanking many of the fairways.
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Hominy Hill - The course at Hominy Hill is laid out on land to the north of Naval Weapons Station Earle in Monmouth County. Such is the quality of this Robert Trent Jones Snr design, it hosted the US Amateur Public Links Championships in 1983.
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Forsgate (Banks) - Named after Charles Banks, the CB Macdonald and Seth Raynor associate known for his “steep and deep” bunkers, the Banks course at Forsgate Country Club came into play in 1931. The more modern Hal Purdy-designed Palmer layout complements the Banks course.
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Upper Montclair - A.W. Tillinghast set out the original 18-hole course at Upper Montclair Country Club then Robert Trent Jones Snr completely renovated the layout three decades later in 1956, adding another nine holes in the process.
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Shore Gate - Shore Gate Golf Club’s 18-hole course lies on the Jersey Shore between Atlantic City and Cape May. There’s a pleasing mix of parkland and links-style holes on the layout and a fair amount of water to avoid as fairways wind around seven lakes on the property.
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Neshanic Valley (Ridge & Lake) - Designed by Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry, the Ridge and Lake nines form the premier 18-hole course at the wonderful 27-hole Neshanic Valley golf complex in Branchburg, New Jersey.
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Architects - The public course at Architects Golf Club pays homage to eighteen of the all-time great golf designers - from Old Tom Morris through to Robert Trent Jones Snr - with a hole dedicated to each and every one of them.
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Trump National (New) - Bedminster - The 18-hole New course at Trump National, Bedminster is a Tom Fazio II design and its unveiling in 2008 doubled the number of holes that are available for play at this impressive facility.
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Paa-Ko Ridge - Designed by the Finger Dye Spann firm of architects, Paa-Ko – meaning the root of the cottonwood tree in ancient Pueblo – is undoubtedly New Mexico’s finest golf course...
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Ellerston - Ellerston is the course that Greg Norman built for the flamboyant Australian media magnate Kerry Packer, the country's richest man, who sadly died in December 2005 at the age of 68.
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Royal Melbourne (East) - While it does not quite offer the grand theatre of the West, Royal Melbourne's East is still a fantastic golfing experience and holds its own versus all other courses in the Melbourne area.
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Las Campanas (Sunset) - The younger and shorter of the two 18-hole Jack Nicklaus golf courses at The Club at Las Campanas, the Sunset layout is unusual for a modern design in that the fairways are laid out in an out and back fashion...
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Victoria Golf Club - Australia - There is clearly something about Victoria Golf Club that renders it even better than the sum of its very impressive parts.
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Black Mesa - Laid out on the moonscape of Santa Clara Pueblo, Black Mesa opened in 2003 to plenty of favourable critical acclaim...
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Lakes - Lakes are not the only hazard at the Lakes Golf Club. In fact, the front nine – with the exception of the opening hole – is water free...
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Las Campanas (Sunrise) - The Sunrise course is the longer of the two 18-hole Jack Nicklaus layouts at The Club at Las Campanas and it also plays slightly easier than its younger sibling. Fairways are routed around residential units, configured in two loops of nine.
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Twin Warriors - Laid out amongst the arroyos and canyons of the Rio Grande Valley, the Gary Pranks-designed golf course at Twin Warriors is one of two 18-hole layouts operated by the Santa Ana Pueblo.
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Metropolitan - Seven Australian Opens, five Australian PGAs and ten other professional tournaments have been hosted at the Metropolitan Golf Club.
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St Andrews Beach - St Andrews Beach was Tom Doak’s first Australian mainland ensemble and it opened for play in 2004 to a considerably loud fanfare of trumpets.
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Pinon Hills - A municipal golf course operated by the small rural town of Farmington in the northwest corner of New Mexico, Pinon Hills is a Ken Dye layout that was built for less than three million dollars back in 1989.
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Rainmakers - Robert Trent Jones Jnr cleverly integrated arroyos, canyons and rock outcroppings into his design for an 18-hole course that sits in the middle of a substantial residential development at Rainmakers Golf Community.
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Commonwealth - Commonwealth Golf Club is a close neighbour of The Metropolitan and Yarra Yarra Golf Clubs, the three forming private golfing oases in modern Melbourne’s southward suburbs.
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Peninsula (North) - There is fantastic variety on the Peninsula North course, good elevation changes, interesting turns, irregular greens with wonderfully true surfaces...
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Pueblo de Cochiti - Laid out in the foothills of the Jemez Mountains, the Pueblo de Cochiti golf course originated from the drawing board of Robert Trent Jones Jnr back in 1981. Locals like to describe the layout as “heaven with a zip code”.
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Inn of the Mountain Gods - Designed by Ted Robinson, the fairways at the Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort & Casino golf course nestle amongst towering pine trees beneath the magnificent Sierra Blanca Peak.
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Lake Karrinyup - Lake Karrinyup Country Club, "the place where the bush kangaroos graze", has held the Australian Open four times and the lake is an obvious focal point...
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Woodlands - Although not as well known internationally as Royal Melbourne, Kingston Heath or Victoria, nearby Woodlands Golf Club is one of the great charms of the Sandbelt courses.
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University of New Mexico (Championship) - Situated close to Albuquerque’s international airport, the University of New Mexico’s Championship golf course sits on a hilly landscape which lends itself to the elevation changes that architect Red Lawrence envisaged for the layout.
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Kennedy Bay - Michael Coate, in conjunction with the late Roger Mackay and Ian Baker-Finch, has created a wonderful modern links course at Kennedy Bay.
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National (Old) - The Old was naturally the first course to be laid out here at the National Golf Club and it was designed by Robert Trent Jones Jnr.
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Newcastle - Given its manifest qualities and historical significance, Newcastle Golf Club is somewhat of an anomaly.
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Barwon Heads - Barwon Heads Golf Club was founded in 1907 in Geelong and was initially a nine-hole links on land north of the village of Barwon Heads.
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Royal Queensland - Royal Queensland Golf Club hosted three Australian Opens in 1947, 1966 and 1973. Perhaps the nation’s premier professional tournament is due a return here some time in the future?
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Dunes Golf Links - The accent is very much on novelty and variation at the Dunes Golf Links, so the golfer will be asked to perform many direction changes, cope with side hill lies and fire to hill top greens.
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Australian - The venue of the inaugural Australian Open in 1904 (host to seventeen in total) and most recently in 2007, the Australian Golf Club is a wonderful championship venue.
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Kooyonga - Kooyonga Golf Club is one of the most interesting of Australia’s classic golf courses and it knocks most modern layouts into a cocked hat.
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Joondalup (Quarry & Dune) - Designed by Robert Trent Jones Jnr, Joondalup – "the place of shining waters" – is one of only a handful of golf course projects undertaken in Australia by RTJ Jnr.
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Thirteenth Beach (Beach) - The Beach course at Thirteenth Beach Golf Links is as accomplished an offering as Tony Cashmore’s previous work at The Dunes, across the water near Portsea.
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Peninsula (South) - The atmosphere is fresh and rustic at The Peninsula Country Golf Club and the courses are set at a little elevation so the sea can be spotted from a few points.
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Wolf Creek Golf Club - Spectacular, visually stunning, jaw dropping views, awe inspiring... Wolf Creek Golf Club is a course you will never forget.
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Cascata - Cascata is an Italian word for waterfall so it will come as no surprise that the predominant feature of Ceasars Cascata course is a high cascading waterfall.
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Moonah Links (Legends) - The Legends course at Moonah Links may be more forgiving than its neighbour but it still presents a stiff test to golfers of all abilities.
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Royal Sydney - Royal Sydney Golf Club celebrated its centenary in 1993 and the championship course has evolved over 100 years into one of the finest in the country.
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Clear Creek - Built by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw in 2009, the sandy-soiled fairways of the Clear Creek Tahoe course weave through towering pine trees, veering past a number of prominent rocky outcrops along the way.
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Grange (West) - The West course at The Grange Golf Club measures 6,840 yards from the back markers and it plays to every inch of its length.
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Southern Highlands - Located a short drive to the south of the Las Vegas Strip, Southern Highlands Golf Club is one of the few co-designed courses ever laid out by the Trent Jones father and son architectural team...
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SouthShore - The course of the Golf Club at SouthShore was the first private Jack Nicklaus Signature Course in Nevada when it opened at Lake Las Vegas in 1996 and its fairways ride the ridges and career down canyons...
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Cut - The Cut Golf Course is named after the nearby Dawesville Channel which was cut into the narrow strip of land separating the Harvey Estuary from the Indian Ocean...
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Yarra Yarra - Unlike most of its peers in the Sandbelt, at Yarra Yarra Golf Club there is a distinct shift in scene and strategy between the two nines.
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Edgewood Tahoe - Situated on the south eastern shore of Lake Tahoe, adjacent to the state border with California, the course at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Club is a challenging layout that hosted the 1985 US Senior Open, an event won for the third time that year by Miller Barber.
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Montreux - The two nines at Montreux Golf & Country Club are reversed when professionals tee it up here during the PGA Tour’s Reno-Tahoe Open.
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Brookwater - The course at Brookwater Golf Club has become quite a talking point in its few short years of existence. It is essentially a public course and therefore receives a good airing with the golfing public.
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DragonRidge - A modern 18-hole layout that nestles in the desert foothills to the south of Henderson, the course at DragonRidge Golf & Country Club is a Jay Morrish design that debuted in the Silver State at the start of the new millennium.
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Healesville - RACV Healesville Country Club nestles in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range, on the edge of the Yarra Valley, and the course itself is routed over fairly undulating terrain.
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Las Vegas Country Club - Built on the site of an old racetrack, the layout at Las Vegas Country Club was designed by Ed Ault in 1967. The course was closed for almost a year in 2009 during a major renovation project to replace greens, bunkers and tees.
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Magenta Shores - Ross Watson was the architect who laid out the links-like resort course at Magenta Shores Golf & Country Club...
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Portsea - Portsea Golf Club is a charming, historic, local golf club near the sea. Although short by modern championship standards, the visitor will enjoy a full and testing experience.
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TPC Summerlin - Bobby Weed laid out the visually stunning course at TPC Summerlin. It’s a fond venue for Tiger Woods as he claimed his very first professional victory here in 1996.
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Coyote Springs - Situated an hour’s drive north of Las Vegas, the Coyote Springs Golf Club course is a Jack Nicklaus layout with fairways routed around no fewer than eleven man-made lakes.
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Royal Canberra (Championship) - Designed by Commander John Harris, Royal Canberra is delightfully routed through the Westbourne Woods arboretum.
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Moonah Links (Open) - Home to Golf Australia (formerly the AGU), the Open at Moonah Links is a championship course built and prepared for national competition...
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Incline Village (Championship) - Totally renovated in 2003, Robert Trent Jones Snr’s Championship course at Incline Village is complemented by the short, par 58 Mountain layout which was built by his son, Robert Trent Jones Jnr.
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Las Vegas Paiute (Wolf) - The Wolf course at the Las Vegas Paiute Golf Resort is the longest of the three courses on a 54-hole complex. And, being a Pete Dye creation, it wouldn’t be complete without an island green at the 182-yard 15th.
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Hope Island - Hope Island is Thomson’s tribute to old-fashioned golf and it embodies all that is good in the links game...
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Wynn Las Vegas - The Wynn golf course is located in the backyard of the Wynn Las Vegas casino hotel and it’s the result of a collaboration between Steve Wynn and Tom Fazio that has been described as an Augusta National-like playground in the desert.
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Hamilton Island - Hamilton Island Golf Club is not actually located on Hamilton Island; instead it’s laid out on nearby Dent Island and is accessed by ferry from the marina...
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Glades - This Greg Norman designed course at The Glades Golf and Spa opened in 2000 and is considered to be one of the Great White Shark’s better golfing projects.
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Spring Valley - Spring Valley Golf Club is situated in the centre of the Melbourne sandbelt, but this parkland course doesn’t quite have the same rolling topography of other, higher ranked courses in the area...
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Huntingdale - Where Huntingdale Golf Club has really made its mark on the Australian golf scene is its annual hosting of the Australian Masters.
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National (Ocean) - Right from the start at the Ocean, the vistas are spectacular, with wonderful views over Bass Strait and most of the peninsula’s linksland.
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Glenelg - Today’s course at Glenelg Golf Club has been completely transformed to keep pace with the demands of the modern game and the set of holes around the turn are probably the strongest...
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Coolum - Visually stunning, the Coolum golf course utilises about a third of the resort property, with a mix of links-like holes on the stretch running along the Pacific Ocean.
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Terrey Hills - Graham Marsh designed a challenging championship golf course at Terrey Hills, the first to be constructed in the Sydney area for over twenty years...
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Atlantic - The Atlantic Golf Club is a private members club and Rees Jones laid out the course in 1992 on land that was originally earmarked for housing.
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Pelican Waters - Situated in the Golden Beach area near Caloundra, Pelican Waters Golf Club lies on relatively flat land with creeks coming into play at nearly every hole...
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Hudson National - Hudson National was once home to the Kitchawan Indians when Henry Hudson first sailed downriver.
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Creek - The “Father of Golf Architecture” and the “Engineer” designed the course at the Creek Club so it’s not surprising that this formidable duo conspired to create a classical masterpiece.
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Port Fairy - Port Fairy Golf Club co-hosts (along with nearby Warrnambol Golf Club) a very popular annual 36-hole amateur championship, the Shipwreck Coast Golf Classic...
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Elanora - The name Elanora comes from the Aboriginal word meaning “home by the water” and the Country Club certainly satisfies this geographical description...
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Sleepy Hollow - Designed by Charles Blair MacDonald in 1911 and later remodelled by A.W. Tillinghast, Sleepy Hollow Country Club is a classical course and host venue of the 2002 U.S. Women’s Amateur.
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Amstel (Ranfurlie) - The doors to the Ranfurlie course first opened in 2002 and its generally wide, open fairways are a perfect foil for the tighter, tree-lined holes on the older Park course at the Amstel Golf Club.
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Deepdale - When Deepdale Golf Club’s original course was lost due to the construction of the Long Island Expressway in the mid-1950s, the committee called in Dick Wilson to lay out the present course...
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Saratoga National - Laid out on a flat site, Roger Rulewich, a former associate of Robert Trent Jones, designed the course at Saratoga National Golf Club. With holes routed around wetlands, many forced tee shots are required.
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Heritage (St John) - The Heritage Golf and Country Club was where the first private Nicklaus-designed Australian golf course, St John, was opened in 2001.
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Grand - The rebirth of the course was complete when the Grand Golf Club hosted the 2001 Australian Open.
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Westchester (West) - The two courses at the Westchester Country Club were laid out just after the end of the Great War with the West designed as a championship layout for tournament play...
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Fenway - With one-shot holes that vary by 100 yards in length, no weak holes and a classical design, it makes us wonder why Fenway Golf Club does not feature more prominently in America’s Top 100.
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Vines (Lakes) - The Vines Resort & Country Club is situated in Swan Valley, the oldest wine growing region in Western Australia...
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Sanctuary Lakes - The Sanctuary Lakes Resort is situated in the Point Cook district of Melbourne and it’s a grand scale residential golf project set out on property that was formerly used to produce salt commercially.
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Oak Hill (West) - The East course at Oak Hill Country Club grabs all the golfing limelight, but golfers who want to play a largely unaltered Donald Ross layout should head for the West course, as it has remained virtually untouched since the old master designed it in 1926.
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Rochester, Country Club of - Used for the US Women’s Open in 1953 and 1973, the golf course at the Country Club of Rochester is an old Donald Ross track that was fully restored by Gil Hanse in 2004.
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Vintage - The course at Vintage Golf Club borders the Beggars Bridge and Bimbadgen vineyards in the fertile Hunter Valley, near Cessnock and opened in 2003.
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Settlers Run - Settlers Run Golf & Country Club opened in 2007 and it's the latest course in the Cranbourne area which is at the centre of a 500-home residential estate that Greg Norman’s golf and property company helped to establish...
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Century - Although the Century Country Club was formed in 1898, its current golf course dates back to 1924 when Harry Colt’s partner, C.H. Alison, designed it. Much of the bunkering has since been changed and several greens have been altered but it’s still a fine parkland test.
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Whippoorwill - Named after the nightjar bird that can be heard around the golf course, Whippoorwill Club dates back to the early 1920s when Donald Ross fashioned an 18-hole layout...
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Sanctuary Cove (Pines) - Arnold Palmer has designed more than 300 courses but so far he has only one Australian signature course to his name and it happens to be the Pines course here at Sanctuary Cove Golf and Country Club
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Concord - Founded in 1899, Concord Golf Club is one of Australia’s oldest and most prestigious clubs and has played host to a number of professional tournaments...
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Leatherstocking - Laid out on the southern shores of Otsego Lake, looking onto Blackbird Bay, the fairways of the Leatherstocking golf course lie less than a mile from the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
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Turning Stone (Atunyote) - The longest of three 18-hole layouts at the Turning Stone Resort, Tom Fazio’s Atunyote golf course extends to 7,315 yards from the back tees. It hosted the BC Open in 2006, the last time that particular PGA Tour event was played before the introduction of the FedEx Cup.
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Tasmania - The course at Tasmania Golf Club is set out on headland overlooking Barilla Bay with breathtaking views across the water...
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Bonville International - Literally carved through rainforests, the holes at Bonville International are played in virtual isolation to each other, with huge Blackbutt, Ironbark and Tallowood trees framing every fairway.
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Bethpage (Red) - Second only to the 18 holes on the Black layout at the five-course Bethpage State Park complex, Tillinghast’s Red course is known to some as “Baby Black,” giving ample indication of the challenge that awaits here.
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Monroe - The founding fathers of Monroe Golf Club made a wise decision when they appointed Donald Ross to design and construct their golf course in the early 1920s. In more recent times, Brian Silva upgraded the fairways and Gil Hanse renovated the bunkers at Monroe.
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Pacific Harbour - One of the best conditioned public access courses in the country, Pacific Harbour Golf and Country Club arrived on the Australian golf scene in 2006...
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Meadow Springs - The Meadow Springs golf course is laid out over gently undulating, open bushland with many of the fairways bounded by tall Tuart trees.
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Bridge - The Bridge occupies some 300 acres with fine views of Sag Harbor. The property was once home to the great, old Bridgehampton Motor Racing Circuit. The theme is very much in the spirit of the automobile.
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Cottesloe - The Perth suburb of Cottesloe – famed for its beaches, cafés and relaxed lifestyle – is where the Cottesloe Golf Club was formed in 1908.
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Links at Hiawatha Landing - Located on the Susquehanna River, between the Finger Lakes and Catskill Mountains, The Links at Hiawatha Landing is a pay and play Brian Silva and Mark Mungeam production where water comes to the fore at seven of the holes.
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Engineers - The Engineers Country Club dates back to 1917 and is located in the village of Roslyn Harbor, which enjoys a unique position on the Gold Coast of Long Island.
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Heritage (Henley) - The Henley course at Heritage Golf & Country Club is laid out around wetlands on the floodplain of the Yarra River, featuring deep and menacing flash-faced bunkers and contoured greens...
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Wykagyl - Wykagyl Country Club is one of the many underappreciated gems located in Westchester County, just a few miles to the north of New York City.
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Western Australian - Unusually, the round at Western Australian Golf Club starts with an intimidating par three, one of five short holes on the card.
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Mount Lawley - Mount Lawley Golf Club began in the late 1920s when members cleared the original bushland, prepared the ground, planted trees and weeded the fledgling fairways over a two year period...
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Buffalo, Country Club of - The golf course of the Country Club of Buffalo is a unique 1926 Donald Ross creation that makes full use of the Onondaga Formation...
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Long Island - Located on the southern edge of the Melbourne Sandbelt at the gateway to the scenic Mornington Peninsula, Long Island Country Club is one of Victoria’s hidden gems...
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Meadow Brook - Meadow Brook Club dates back to 1881 but its course is of more recent vintage. Dick Wilson was contracted to build a new course in the mid 1950s and he delivered a strong, challenging layout epitomised by the 617-yard double doglegged 8th hole.
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Turning Stone (Kaluhyat) - The toughest of three 18-hole golf courses at the Turning Stone Resort, Robert Trent Jones Junior’s layout plays around six lakes with several fairways also enjoying spectacular changes in elevation.
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Grange (East) - The East course at the Grange Golf Club came of age twenty years after it opened when a fresh faced, 21 year old professional named Greg Norman won the West Lakes Classic...
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Trump National - Westchester - Jim Fazio shaped the fairways at Trump National Golf Club Westchester in 2002 and he’s due enormous credit for fitting a large, modern course into a heavily contoured site at Briarcliff Manor that once housed Devereux Emmet’s Briar Hall Country Club course.
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Pound Ridge - It took more than ten years from conception to delivery but seasoned commentators will tell you that Pete Dye’s course at Pound Ridge Golf Club was well worth the decade-long gestation period.
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Thirteenth Beach (Creek) - The Creek course at the Thirteenth Beach Golf Links is the result of collaboration between Tony Cashmore and Sir Nick Faldo...
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Links Lady Bay - With wonderful views of the Fleurieu coastline, Links Lady Bay offers golfers an authentic links-like experience with subtly undulating fairways, cunningly-placed bunkers and smooth, true greens...
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Troy, Country Club of - Laid out on a hilly, 325-acre woodland site, the old course at the Country Club of Troy was Walter Travis’s final design. Recently extended during restoration work by Tom Doak, it’s still short by modern day standards.
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Sandhurst (Champions) - Every hole on the Champions at the Sandhurst Club is dedicated to a former Australian PGA Champion and there’s a plaque beside every tee with a brief career history of the golfer concerned.
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Cranbourne - Just over a decade after Sam Berriman laid out a course for the members at Huntingdale in 1941, he was appointed to design the 18-hole layout at Cranbourne Golf Club.
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St George’s Golf & Country Club - New York - Laid out on a confined parcel of land in 1917 by Devereux Emmet, the course at St George’s Golf & Country Club extends to a mere 6,200 yards, indicating that hardly a thing has changed here in almost a century.
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Horsham - Horsham Golf Club is a delightful parkland layout with a variety of well bunkered holes that reward golfers who can play the ball straight rather than long.
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Lakelands - Lakelands Golf Club is promoted as Australia's first Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course.
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Eynesbury - Eynesbury is yet another modern golf course to arrive on the Australian golfing scene from the critically acclaimed Graham Marsh design studio.
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Capricorn (Championship) - Many of the holes on the Championship course at Capricorn dogleg right or left to test the shot-making abilities of golfers and there’s plenty of water to be found on the inward half...
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Cape Schanck - The Royal Automobile Club of Victoria’s resort golf course at Cape Schanck is located on the southernmost tip of the Mornington Peninsula, where the Bass Strait meets the tidal bay of Western Port...
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Royal Hobart - The course at Royal Hobart Golf Club is renowned for the quality of its bunkers and the club has hosted many Tasmanian Opens and national Amateur championships.
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Sands Torquay - Part of the Sands Torquay Golf Club and residential development lies on the site of the old Torquay Tip and the reclamation of this wasteland resulted in the construction of the 18-hole Sands course in 2004.
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Pacific Dunes - Situated on the lower north coast in the Port Stephens area of New South Wales, the 18-hole Pacific Dunes course is the focal point of a multi-million dollar golf and residential development.
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Avondale - Avondale Golf Club sits within one of the most densely populated metropolitan districts in Australia but, after passing through its under stated entrance, you are transported to another world...
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Keysborough - A game at Keysborough Golf Club begins gently with two par fives and the doglegged routing of these holes is repeated many times during the round...
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Vines (Ellenbrook) - Greens on the Ellenbrook are large, averaging around 700 square metres, which might be expected of a resort course intent on offering as many different pin positions as possible.
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Twin Creeks - Another quality layout from the design studio of Graham Marsh, Twin Creeks Golf & Country Club is a private member course within a rural residential development...
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Riversdale - Alex Russell designed the course at Riversdale Golf Club and the club organized a match in 1930 to celebrate the official opening.
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Royal Perth - Today’s course of the Royal Perth Golf Club measures a touch over 6,670 yards and accuracy off the tee is absolutely essential if a decent score is to be made here.
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Alice Springs - The layout at Alice Springs Golf Club is regarded as one of the best desert courses in the Southern Hemisphere and it was officially opened in 1985 with a match between Greg Norman and Johnnie Miller...
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St Michael's - It’s no easy task living in the shadow of one of the world’s Top 50 ranked golf courses but that’s exactly what the 18-hole layout at St Michael’s has had to do...
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Murray Downs - Course architect Ted Parslow fashioned the fairways at Murray Downs in the late 1980s with the official opening taking place in 1991.
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Sandhurst (North) - The North was the first of the two golf courses to open in 2004 at the Sandhurst Club and it’s characterised by large, undulating greens that demand full concentration all the way round.
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Croydon - The course at Croydon Golf Club or Yering Meadows to be precise is laid out at the foot of the Dandenong Ranges on land that was once a flood plain used for cattle grazing.
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Sorrento - Laid out near the tip of the Mornington Peninsula, the course at Sorrento Golf Club is one of the oldest in the area and its hilly, sand-based fairways are set within densely forested terrain...
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Indooroopilly (West) - Indooroopilly Golf Club sits on the banks of the Brisbane River, a short distance south west of the Queensland state capital, and golfers have played here since the 1930s.
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Secret Harbour - Laid out by Graham Marsh, the 18-hole Secret Harbour course was inaugurated with an exhibition game involving its designer, Lee Trevino and Gary Player.
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Twin Waters - Designed by Peter Thomson, the course at Twin Waters Golf Club is a fairly flat, resort style layout with splashes of water and sand bunkers dotted in and around the wide fairways.
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Paradise Palms - Set out between the World Heritage rainforest and The Great Barrier Reef, the fairways at Paradise Palms hardly resemble the normal style of hole found on a resort course.
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Narooma - Narooma Golf Club is famed for having some of the best kept greens in New South Wales and the course throws up one or two surprises with several blind tee shots to be negotiated...
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Sanctuary Cove (Palms) - The original Palms course at Sanctuary Cove Golf & Country Club was designed as a typical resort layout by American Fred Bolton in the late 1980s. Twenty years later, Ross Watson toughened up the challenge...
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Double Eagle - The late John Henderson McConnell founded the Double Eagle Club and the golf course was designed by the partnership of Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish, opening for play in 1991.
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Canterbury - Host to two US Opens and one PGA Championship, Canterbury Golf Club’s place in golfing history is assured.
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Brookside - In 2003, the course at Brookside Country Club was completely renovated to recapture the essence of the original Donald Ross design.
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NCR (South) - The 7,055-yard South course at the NCR Country Club has become known as the “thinking man’s course” because accuracy rather than length is key to a good score on this heavily wooded layout.
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Pepper Pike, Country Club - Host to the US Women’s Amateur in 2012, the Country Club originally moved to Pepper Pike in the mid 1920s, where William Flynn laid out eighteen holes that were both stylish and strategic.
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Firestone (South) - Harvey Firestone, founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, originally established the Firestone Country Club in the late 1920s as a park for his employees.
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Mayfield Sand Ridge - One of two courses owned by the Mayfield Sand Ridge Club, Sand Ridge is an elegant course located in the western foothills of the Appalachian Mountains around 30 miles from Cleveland.
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Kirtland - Kirtland Country Club’s old CH Alison course is routed over two distinct landforms; the front nine plays out on open, rolling terrain whilst the back nine weaves through a forested valley.
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Longaberger - The course at Longaberger Golf Club is a dramatic Arthur Hills design from 1999 and the challenge here is epitomised by the long par five 4th hole, where the fairway drops 150 feet between tee and green.
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Coldstream - A typical Dick Wilson track from the late 1950s, the 18-hole layout at Coldstream Country Club ends with three long, demanding, heavily bunkered par fours.
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Wedgewood - Wedgewood Golf & Country Club was founded in 1988 and within three years of its formation, members were playing on a testing course that had been set out by Robert Trent Jones Jnr.
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Moraine - Alec “Nipper” Campbell designed the golf course of the Moraine Country Club and it opened for play in 1930.
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TPC at River’s Bend - A former PGA Champions Tour venue, the TPC at River’s Bend course is routed around housing units within a residential development to the northeast of Cincinnati.
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Ohio State University (Scarlet) - Alister MacKenzie tendered for the design of the Scarlet course at Ohio State University in 1931 but seven years would pass before Perry Maxwell constructed the layout.
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Maketewah - Maketewah Country Club was formed in 1910 and its original Tom Bendelow-designed course was refashioned within a decade of it opening by Donald Ross.
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Firestone (North) - One of three 18-hole courses to be found at Firestone Country Club, the North is an engaging Robert Trent Jones Snr layout that debuted in 1969, ten years after the South course was unveiled.
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Barrington - Laid out on a gently rolling, wooded landscape, the fairways of the Jack Nicklaus-designed layout at Barrington Golf Club have been artistically routed around a number of lakes and ponds.
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Shaker Run (Woodlands & Lakeside) - The Woodlands and Lakeside nines were fashioned by Arthur Hills at Shaker Run Golf Club in 1979. Despite the addition of a third nine two decades later, it’s the original 18-hole course that remains the premier layout here.
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Red Hawk Run - Arthur Hills did a remarkable job at Red Hawk Run transforming a relatively flat farming landscape into a fine, upscale public golf course that features a couple of large lakes and a menacing creek for added aquatic challenge.
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Boulder Creek - Owner Joe Salemi acquired the 200-acre Boulder Creek Golf Club property in Streetsboro at the end of the 1990s then he set about designing each and every hole of the course himself.
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Fowler’s Mill (Lake & River) - Designed by Pete Dye, Fowler’s Mill Golf Course extends to three 9-hole circuits, named Lake, River and Maple, with the former two comprising the 7025-yard premier 18-hole layout.
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Shaker Heights - Completely surrounded on all sides by dense housing, the course at Shaker Heights Country Club is a Donald Ross design from 1916 where the old master routed several holes around a meandering creek.
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Tartan Fields - Located close to Muirfield Village, the course at Tartan Fields Golf Club - an LPGA venue between 2002 and 2006 - is an Ed Seay and Arnold Palmer design from 1998. Some might question why anybody would ask The King to lay out a course right on the Golden Bear’s doorstep?
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Little Mountain - The course at Little Mountain Country Club is one of three operated by the same company - the other two are StoneWater and Cumberland Trail - with all three emanating from the drawing boards at Hurdzan/Fry Design.
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Pinnacle - Designed by Lanny Wadkins and opened for play in 2006, Pinnacle Golf Club is one of Ohio’s unsung courses that is thoughtfully routed across a tract of undulating and wooded former farmland. With natural elevation changes and healthy yardage, Pinnacle is an absorbing test.
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Karsten Creek - Karsten Creek Golf Club was named after the founder of Ping, the late Karsten Solheim, and the course was fashioned by Tom Fazio.
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Oak Tree National - The recently rebranded Oak Tree National was shamelessly constructed in 1976 with a view to making it, as the club proudly boast, “the hardest golf course in the world”...
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Patriot - Designed by Robert Trent Jones Jnr, the course at The Patriot Golf Club opened for play in 2010 and is routed across a varied landscape that includes marshland, woodland and prairie.
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Oklahoma, the Golf Club of - Situated 9 miles south of Broken Arrow, The Golf Club of Oklahoma course was fashioned by Tom Fazio in 1982 with several fairways routed around the sparkling waters of Lake Kadashan.
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Oak Tree (East) - Set within a private gated golf community, the East course at Oak Tree Country Club is the longer and more difficult of a pair of 18-hole Pete Dye layouts located at this fine golf facility.
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Territory - The course at Territory Golf & Country Club is spread out over an expansive 640-acre property with fairways set out on a rolling landscape that features rocky outcrops, numerous ponds and the wandering waters of Stagestand Creek.
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Cedar Ridge - Joe Finger laid out the Cedar Ridge Country Club course in 1969 and it hosted the US Women’s Open in 1983 when Jan Stephenson became the first Australian to win the title.
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Oak Tree (West) - The West course debuted in 1978, four years before Pete Dye returned to complete the 36-hole golf complex at Oak Tree Country Club.
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Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club - Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club was the venue for the US Amateur Championship in 1953 and its tree-lined course weaves over a rolling landscape where water comes into play at more than half the holes.
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Eugene - Eugene Country Club is set among towering Douglas Firs where its natural setting and strategic challenge has elevated the club’s reputation as one of the best courses on the Pacific Coast.
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Pumpkin Ridge (Witch Hollow) - The Witch Hollow course at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club has already hosted several major golf tournaments, including the 1997 and 2003 US Women’s Open...
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Pronghorn (Fazio) - The Cascades form a dramatic backcloth to the up-market Pronghorn Club and architect Tom Fazio has used the fascinating, petrified landscape to create a dramatic Fazio signature golf course.
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Pronghorn (Nicklaus) - Fairways are routed over a landscape dotted with lava rock outcroppings that Jack Nicklaus brilliantly incorporated into his design at the Pronghorn Club.
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Broken Top - Situated a little more than a mile from downtown Bend, on the eastern side of the Deschutes National Forest and the Cascade Mountains, nestles the ever-popular Broken Top Club.
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Crosswater - One of the main sporting attractions at Sunriver Resort is the Crosswater golf course which lies 15 miles south of Bend in central Oregon...
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Pumpkin Ridge (Ghost Creek) - Ghost Creek is the Robert Cupp-designed course at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club that you can play; Witch Hollow is the one you can’t.
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Portland Golf Club - Ben Hogan claimed his first Major title here at Portland Golf Club, winning the 1946 PGA Championship. The following year the club played host to the Ryder Cup that nearly didn’t happen...
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Running Y Ranch - Despite its lofty perch, the golf course at Running Y Ranch is routed across the basin of relatively flat former ranch land. In fact, the key is in the name, Running Y is very much a working cattle ranch...
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Columbia Edgewater (Macan) - Columbia Edgewater Country Club was designed by Dublin-born Vernon Macan, who became one of the Pacific Northwest’s most prolific architects of the Golden Age of golf course design.
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Astoria Golf & Country Club - There’s nothing fancy about Astoria Golf & Country Club, so don’t expect to find extravagant bunkering or complicated greensites if you tee it up here...
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Tetherow - Better known perhaps for his first Oregon project at Bandon Dunes in 1999, architect David McLay Kidd returned to the Beaver State a decade later to lay out the woodland course at Tetherow Golf Club.
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Waverley - Laid out on a tight parcel of land beside the Williamette River, the course at Waverley Country Club dates back to 1898. Chandler Egan redesigned the layout in 1916 and both AV Macan and Robert Trent Jones Jnr carried out subsequent modifications.
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Oregon - Situated twenty miles south of downtown Portland, Peter Jacobsen’s 18-hole layout at Oregon Golf Club is a wonderfully varied affair with fairways laid out over open ground and forested terrain.
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Reserve Vineyards (South) - The John Fought-designed South course opened in 1997, a year before Bob Cupp’s North layout, and the Reserve Vineyards Golf Club operates its 36-hole complex by switching the status of each course from private to public on an alternating basis.
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Eagle Point - Oregon - Opened in 1996, the course at Eagle Point Golf Club is a Robert Trent Jones Jnr layout which had its fairways sand capped during construction, enabling it to remain in play during periods of bad weather.
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Aronimink - Aronimink Golf Club opened for play in 1928 and Royal Dornoch’s most famous son, Donald Ross, originally designed the course.
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Laurel Valley - The 1975 Ryder Cup put Laurel Valley Golf Club on the map and team USA won comfortably 21-11. The winning margin would have been greater had England’s Brian Barnes not upset Jack's applecart.
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Huntsville - Rees Jones was responsible for setting out the course at Huntsville Golf Club over rolling terrain within a massive 470-acre site in the early 1990s.
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Huntingdon Valley (Toomey & Flynn) - Huntingdon Valley Country Club was fashioned in the 1920s as a 27-hole layout by William S. Flynn and it remains authentic to his original design principles.
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Saucon Valley (Old) - Laid out by Herbert Strong in 1921, the Saucon Valley Country Club’s Old course has hosted numerous national competitions, including the US Amateur (1951), two US Senior Opens and the 2009 US Women’s Open.
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Lancaster (Old) - The original Meadow Creek and Highlands nines (known as the Old course) are still considered the best 18-hole combination here at Lancaster Country Club...
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Fox Chapel - The affluent Pittsburgh suburb of Fox Chapel is home to one of Seth Raynor’s best, yet least celebrated designs... Fox Chapel Golf Club.
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Philadelphia (Spring Mill) - Philadelphia Country Club is one of the oldest in the country, formed by John C. Bullit in 1890. He acquired a 60-acre property on which a polo field was laid out (hence the horse head club emblem)...
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Sunnehanna - A. W. Tillinghast is said to have worked on more than 250 courses and he designed around a dozen of these in his home state of Pennsylvania, one of which was Sunnehanna Country Club.
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Lehigh - Along the Little Lehigh Creek lies the private Lehigh Country Club which celebrated its centenary in 2008.
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Rolling Green - It’s easy to see why it's a struggle to score well at Rolling Green Golf Club when you examine the undulating landscape and the way the greens are designed to repel all but the most accurate approach shots...
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Applebrook - Local architect Gil Hanse built the Applebrook Golf Club course in 2001 and the construction of small greens and jagged bunkers imbue the layout with classic, Golden Age styling.
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Nemacolin Woodlands (Mystic Rock) - The Mystic Rock course is one of two 18-hole layouts at the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, named after Chief Nemacolin, an 18th century Delaware Indian. It’s an enormous, tough track that Pete Dye crafted in the mid 1990s.
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Bedford Springs (Old) - The course at the Bedford Springs Hotel dates back to 1895. Altered on separate occasions by AW Tillinghast and Donald Ross, it was renovated by Ron Forse in 2007. The current layout is quite short (under 6,450 yards) with half the holes laid out alongside the waters of Shobers Run.
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Stonewall (Old) - Tom Doak’s light touch in routing the Old course at Stonewall through a rather undulating landscape is very easy on the eye...
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Penn National (Founders) - Ed Ault fashioned the tree-lined fairways of the Founders course at Penn National Golf Club & Inn back in the late 1960s. A 7-acre lake comes into play on both nines as the course builds to a climax over the closing five holes.
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French Creek - In creating the course at French Creek Golf Club, Gil Hanse routed the fairways around a number of wetland areas on a rolling property that lies an hour’s drive west of Philadelphia.
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Green Valley - The 18-hole layout at Green Valley Country Club originally started out as a public layout named Marble Hall Golf Course. Designed and operated for twenty years by local architect William Flynn, it was sold to Green Valley in 1944.
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Olde Stonewall - Designed by Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry, the 18 holes at Olde Stonewall Golf Club are set out in two distinct circuits with a typical low country front nine and a more undulating back nine that exhibits a number of elevation changes.
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Saucon Valley (Weyhill) - One of three 18-hole layouts at Saucon Valley Country Club, the Weyhill course was set around an old abandoned quarry by William and David Gordon in the mid 1960s.
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Philadelphia Cricket Club (Wissahickton) - AW Tillinghast crafted the Wissahickton golf course at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in 1922. Apart from the addition of some length, the course has remained largely unaltered since its inauguration all those years ago.
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Pittsburgh Field Club - Venue for the USPGA Championships in 1937, the course at Pittsburgh Field Club is an Alex Findlay design from 1915. It’s a rather hilly layout that’s been modified by many of the golfing greats down the years, including Donald Ross, AW Tillinghast and Robert Trent Jones Snr.
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Rolling Rock - Until Brian Silva added nine holes to the layout in 1997, Donald Ross’s course at Rolling Rock Club had, for almost eighty years, been regarded as the finest 9-hole track in the country.
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Manufacturers’ - The classic old William Flynn layout at Manufacturers’ Golf & Country Club lies in a valley where the Sandy Run Creek is brought into play at several of the holes.
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Philadelphia Cricket Club (Militia Hill) - In 2002, eighty years after AW Tillinghast’s classic old Wissahickton course debuted at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, the club unveiled its new 18-hole Militia Hill course, which was laid out over an old Revolutionary War encampment by the design duo, Hurdzan and Fry.
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Glenmaura National - Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry set out the course at Glenmaura National Golf Club in the early 1990s and its most celebrated hole is the 18th, where a split fairway plays to pair of stone-fronted greens.
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Glen Mills - Designed by Bobby Weed and opened for play in 2000, The Golf Course at Glen Mills is set out on property owned and operated by the oldest reform school in the country.
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Whitemarsh Valley - The course at Whitemarsh Valley Country Club hosted the Philadelphia Open between 1963 and 1980 and five of its holes utilise the Wissahickton Creek as an intimidating water hazard.
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Long Cove - Designed by Pete Dye, the Long Cove Club opened in 1981 with rolling, tree lined fairways, challenging greens and water featuring prominently in the golf course design.
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Sage Valley - Opened in 2001 and designed by Tom Fazio, Sage Valley Golf Club is extra special and it’s set to become a Top 100 high flyer.
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Kiawah Island Club (Cassique) - There are two courses at the Kiawah Island Club and the Cassique was the first North American architectural ensemble of five-time British Open champion Tom Watson...
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Dunes Golf & Beach Club - Although located barely more than a block from the beach and with most holes subject to strong ocean breezes, the style of the Dunes is not seaside or links...
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Secession - Situated on Gibbes Island in the heart of the South Carolina Low Country, Secession Golf Club sits in perfect isolation among the tidal inlets with no housing on or around the property...
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Palmetto - The Palmetto Golf Club is a monument from the dawn of US golf and the club can reasonably claim to have the country’s second oldest golf course.
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Musgrove Mill - South Carolina resort golf is not on offer here at Musgrove Mill and the club makes no apologies for its difficulty.
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Greenville (Chanticleer) - More than half the holes on the Chanticleer course at Greenville Country Club provide for inviting drives from elevated tees.
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May River - Featuring tees and fairways sown with a new type of paspalum grass that’s tolerant to heat and salt, the course at May River Golf Club is a Jack Nicklaus design which lies at Palmetto Bluff in Bluffton.
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Kiawah Island Club (River) - Situated between Kiawah River and Bass Pond, six of the River course holes at the private Kiawah Island Club play along the water’s edge with the remaining fairways routed around woodland, lakes and marshes.
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Briar's Creek - Briar’s Creek Golf Club is situated on St.John’s Island, South Carolina and was opened in 2002 as a private club.
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Chechessee Creek - Designed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, the golf course at Chechessee Creek Club sits amidst towering oaks and pines to the north of Callawassie Island. Many remark that the raised greensites are the layout’s best design feature.
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Caledonia - Remnants of the past are dotted around Caledonia Golf & Fish Club – an old fish shed here, foundations and chimneys of old houses there...
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Colleton River Plantation (Pete Dye) - The Pete Dye course at the Colleton River Plantation Club appeared six years after the Nicklaus layout debuted at the same location. The front nine plays through woodland with the back nine occupying more open terrain amongst marshlands.
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Charleston, Country Club of - A classic old Seth Raynor course from 1921, the fairways at the Country Club of Charleston are laid out amongst the marshland of Ashley River. Interesting greensites characterise a layout that sits on a largely flat landscape.
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Cliffs at Kaowee Vineyards - A scenic Tom Fazio design, the Kaowee Vineyards course at the Cliffs at Keowee Vineyards community, is routed around Lake Keowee with three of the holes on each nine set out along the water’s edge.
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Old Tabby Links - Isolated from the many other courses laid out along the South Carolina coast, the Arnold Palmer-designed Old Tabby Links course lies at the centre of an exclusive residential complex...
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Colleton River Plantation (Nicklaus) - It’s said that members favour afternoon play on the Nicklaus signature course at Colleton River Plantation because, if they time it right, their final putt will meet the setting sun over the Colleton River.
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Bulls Bay - Mike Strantz fashioned some seriously spectacular elevation changes when he shifted more than two million cubic yards of earth during construction of the course at Bulls Bay Golf Club.
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Tidewater - The course at Tidewater Golf Club and Plantation lies between the Intracoastal Waterway and Cherry Grove. It’s a highly regarded 18-hole layout that’s won many admirers since it opened in 1990.
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TPC Myrtle Beach - A Tom Fazio design, the TPC Myrtle Beach golf course hosted the end of season Senior Tour Championship in 2000. A decade later, the layout was upgraded when greens were replaced and greenside bunkers refurbished.
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Reserve at Lake Keowee - The Reserve at Lake Keowee is a massive 3,900-acre residential development that features this strategic and challenging Jack Nicklaus golf course as one of its main leisure activities.
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Cherokee Plantation - Occupying a gently rolling, wooded property to the north of Hilton Head Island, the 18-hole golf course at Cherokee Plantation was Donald Steel’s first design in the United States.
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Daniel Island (Ralston Creek) - The Ralston Creek golf course at Daniel Island Club is a Rees Jones design that was unveiled in 2006, six years after Tom Fazio’s Beresford Creek layout debuted at the same location.
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Belfair (West) - The West course at Belfair Golf Club is the older - and tougher - of two Tom Fazio layouts in a large forested property that lies along the inlets and wetlands of the Colleton River.
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Belfair (East) - Tom Fazio’s East course at Belfair Golf Club appeared in 1999, three years after his West course debuted at the same Bluffton location, and both layouts comprise a formidable challenge at this 36-hole facility.
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Windermere - A Pete and P.B. Dye semi-private course that opened for play in 1989, the 18-hole layout at The Windermere Club is more than capable of serving up an engaging round of golf. The course is famed for a quirky par three 13th that plays to a boomerang-shaped green.
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DeBordieu - Occupying a lovely spot on the South Carolina coast between the Waccamaw River and the Atlantic Ocean, the golf course at DeBordieu Club has hosted many regional events since it opened in 1987, including the Carolinas Mid-Amateur and Carolinas Senior Amateur Championships.
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Haig Point - Rees Jones set out the golf course at the Haig Point Club in 1987, returning to restore the layout twenty years later. Interestingly, he constructed 20 holes in two circuits, named the “Haig” and “Calibogue”.
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Oldfield - With housing set back a discreet distance from the fairways, the golf course at Oldfield Club occupies a wetlands-flanked tract of land adjacent to the Okatie River. Opened in 2002, it was Greg Norman’s first Lowcountry design.
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Heritage Club - One of five courses at Legends Golf & Resort, the Heritage Club layout stretches out over former rice fields on Pawleys Island, next to the Caledonia and True Blue golf complexes.
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Dakota Dunes Country Club - Bounded by the mighty Missouri River to the south of the property, the golf course at Dakota Dunes Country Club lies within a 2,000-acre residential development. Designed by Arnold Palmer with Ed Seay, the course debuted in 1991 when Arnie played a round to officially open it.
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Red Rock - Opened for play in 2003, The Golf Club at Red Rock layout is set on the edge of the Black Hills National Forest with many of the fairways bounded by tall ponderosa pine trees.
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Wild Dunes (Links) - The Wild Dunes Resort offers a couple of 18-hole Tom Fazio courses for public play. It’s generally accepted that the Links - six years older than the Harbor layout - is the better of the two tracks at a marvellous 36-hole complex.
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Meadowbrook - Host to the US Women’s Amateur Public Links Championship in 1984, Meadowbrook Golf Course is a 1970s David Gill design that brings the waters of Rapid Creek into play at a handful of holes.
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Indigo Run - The Golf Club at Indigo Run is one of only a few private golf clubs on Hilton Head Island and the course was Jack Nicklaus’s first co-design with his son Jack in 1995.
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Hart Ranch - Unveiled in 1995, the 18-hole golf course at Hart Ranch employs additional forward tees which allow families to play a beginner-friendly short course within the existing golf facility.
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Woodcreek Farms - The Country Club at Woodcreek Farms course is a late 1990s Tom Fazio design that’s routed around a residential development in Elgin, north east of Columbia.
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Cross Creek Plantation - The P.B. Dye course at Cross Creek Plantation is set out within an expansive 500-acre residential estate that lies close to Lake Keowee, Lake Jocassee and Lake Hartwell in the Golden Corner of South Carolina.
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Cliffs at Glassy - The very scenic Cliffs at Glassy golf course is a tough Tom Jackson-designed layout featuring some massive tee carries and tight-angled doglegs on fairways that sit on top of a 3,000-foot high mountain.
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Wachesaw Plantation - The Wachesaw Plantation Club’s course lies within a forested property where many of the fairways are bordered by low-density housing. The par five 18th - which sits on a bluff overlooking Murrell’s Inlet - concludes a round here in some style.
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Holston Hills - Nestling near the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, is the unassuming Holston Hills Country Club. Is this the best-preserved Donald Ross design in the USA?
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Kinloch Club - The Kinloch Club pays homage to the great British and Irish links courses, although it is about as far from the ocean as you can get in New Zealand.
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Spring Creek Ranch - The Spring Creek Ranch course is a demanding Jack Nicklaus design where length and water define much of the challenge – eight of the par fours measure in excess of 430 yards and fourteen of the holes feature aquatic hazards.
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Tennessee, Golf Club of - Toby Wilt and Bronson Ingram formed The Golf Club of Tennessee back in the late 1980s and they tasked Tom Fazio with the design of their new course. He duly obliged by delivering a tough track that makes the very best use of a hilly, forested property.
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Jack's Point - The new (2008) golf course at Jack’s Point is spectacularly located on the edge of Lake Wakatipu with the razorback Remakables Mountains providing a dramatic backcloth. It's set to be a high-flyer in the rankings.
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Hills - The Hills is billed as New Zealand’s most exclusive golf club and it’s located in the former gold mining town of Arrowtown. It therefore seems appropriate that the course is owned and operated by a jeweller.
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Belle Meade - Richland Creek comes into play at seven of the holes on the Belle Meade Country Club golf course. It’s a Donald Ross design from 1921 that has been significantly modified down the years, most notably by Robert Trent Jones Snr in the early 1950s and Gary Roger Baird in 1981.
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Black Creek - Brian Silva laid out the course at Black Creek Golf Club with more than a nod towards the style of Seth Raynor’s Golden Age work. Consequently, it features a wonderful array of Short, Redan, Cape and Biarritz holes.
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Titirangi - Formed in 1909, Titirangi Golf Club is one of the fortunate few that can say it has Alister MacKenzie, the eminent designer, as its golf course architect.
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Wairakei - Avoid the creeks, gullies and the odd rogue borehole and you may card a decent score at Wairakei, which is an unforgettable and exciting golf course among the geysers.
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Ross Creek Landing - The fairways of the Ross Creek Landing golf course occupy rolling countryside between the Tennessee River and Hassel Field airport in Wayne County. It’s a Jack Nicklaus Signature design that offers golfers a wonderful mix of meadow and woodland holes.
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Memphis - Set out on a tight parcel of land that lies close to downtown Memphis, the Donald Ross-designed course at Memphis Country Club celebrated its centenary in 2010. Apart from the growth of trees around the property, not much else has changed here in over a hundred years.
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Millbrook - Created by John Darby and Bob Charles, the Millbrook Resort opened in 1992 – seven years before its co-designer, the 1963 Open Champion, Bob Charles was knighted.
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Gulf Harbour - Gulf Harbour is routed round a rolling hillside and the changes in elevation make for exciting and challenging golf with the added bonus of free panoramic views.
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Tennessee National - Laid out within a bend in the meandering Tennessee River, the course at Tennessee National Golf Club is a modern Greg Norman Signature layout where the waterside par three 12th hole is the undoubted star of the golfing show.
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Chattanooga - The Donald Ross course at Chattanooga Golf & Country Club dates back to 1920 and it lies within a tight property on the northern bank of the Tennessee River, with several fairways laid out along the water’s edge.
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Southland - The location of Southland Golf Club’s Oreti Sands course is about as peripheral as it gets on the golfing map, seeing as it lies at one of the most southerly points on New Zealand’s South Island...
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Royal Auckland - Middlemore, as the Royal Auckland Golf Club is better known, is a tough test when the course is set up in its competition livery.
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Royal Wellington - Wellington Golf Club – as it was known until it gained “Royal” status in 2004 – dates back to 1895, when a group of like-minded golfers established a golfing society.
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Christchurch - The Christchurch Golf Club has a history stretching back to 1873 and according to our records it's the second oldest golf club in New Zealand.
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Clearwater - Designed by John Darby and Bob Charles, Clearwater is currently the home of the New Zealand Open Championship.
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Terrace Downs - The 550 acres of the Terrace Downs Resort are set in the foothills of the Southern Alps, an hour’s drive from Christchurch, on the edge of the Canterbury Plains.
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New Plymouth - Ngamotu - Located between the dormant volcano of Mount Taranaki and the Tasmin Sea, the tree-lined fairways of the Ngamotu course at New Plymouth Golf Club are laid out along the stunning coastline...
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Carrington - A golfing layout actually existed here at the Carrington Resort prior to a redesign by American Matt Dye, nephew of the legendary Pete Dye...
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Arrowtown - The course at Arrowtown Golf Club is a little masterpiece with fairways threaded through tiny valleys, between boulders, or over gorges with greens nestling snugly into hillsides.
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Muriwai - Muriwai Golf Club is located around 25 miles to the north west of downtown Auckland and it’s the region’s only authentic links course.
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Pegasus - Pegasus Golf & Sports Club may be the new golf course on the block (opened for play in Dec 2009) but it has already hosted the Pegasus New Zealand Women’s Open twice.
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Otago - In 1893, the first New Zealand Amateur Championship was staged at Otago, and the Golf Club has hosted this tournament on ten further occasions.
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Hastings - Members and guests of Hastings Golf Club – better known locally as Bridge Pā – play their golf on a wonderful, free-draining, parkland course...
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Champions (Cypress Creek) - Former Ryder Cup course at Champions Golf Club, Cypress Creek, is a storied layout. The water in front of the 12th green is known as Bob Hope’s Lake, as he was the first person to lose a ball in it!
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Spanish Oaks - Former apprentice to Pete Dye and PGA Tour in-house architect, Bobby Weed, designed Spanish Oaks Golf Club. Weed’s highly acclaimed, sensitive design was considered to be the most environmentally friendly in Texas.
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Hamilton - Named St Andrews, the course at Hamilton Golf Club remains largely unaltered after almost a century of use – a fine example of a solid parkland layout that has stood the golfing test of time ...
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Lakes - Golf at the Lakes is all that its name suggests. Ponds, creeks and waterfalls come into play at a good number of the holes...
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Briggs Ranch - The Tom Fazio designed signature course at Briggs Ranch Golf Club is the centrepiece of an exclusive residential estate close to downtown San Antonio.
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Manawatu - Manawatu is a very pleasant parkland course laid out on a compact, 110-acre site between a lagoon, Massey University College of Education, and the Manawatu River.
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Carlton Woods (Fazio) - The Fazio golf course opened at The Club at Carlton Woods in 2006, five years after Jack Nicklaus’s layout debuted at the same location. With water in play at eight holes, it’s tougher than the Golden Bear’s design.
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Austin Country Club - Founded in 1899, Austin Country Club moved to its current Davenport Ranch location in 1984 when Pete Dye laid out the golf course on a site where the opening seven fairways lie close to Lake Austin...
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Chisholm Park - Fourteen holes at Chisholm Park Golf Club sit amongst the dunes behind St Kilda Beach, with the stretch from 8 to 11 climbing up to a magnificent headland wedged between two beaches.
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Queenstown (Kelvin Heights) - Queenstown Golf Club was first formed in 1927, but it was not until 1973 that the club moved to its current home, the Kelvin Heights golf course...
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Carlton Woods (Nicklaus) - The Club at Carlton Woods features two long, demanding 18-hole tracks that each operate from their own clubhouses. The Nicklaus is the more established of the two golf courses, opening in 2001.
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Pine Dunes - At the end of the 1990s, owner Jodi Lutz enlisted Jay Morrish and his son Carter to transform the old 9-hole Dogwood Trails layout into Pine Dunes Golf Club, one of the best daily fee 18-hole golf courses in Texas.
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Wanganui - Wanganui Golf Club has played host to many national tournaments, most notably the New Zealand Open on seven occasions between 1911 and 1978.
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Poverty Bay - According to the history, Poverty Bay Golf Club was founded in 1893 and is the fifth oldest golf club in New Zealand and the second oldest on the North Island...
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Barton Creek (Fazio Canyons) - One of four 18-hole courses at the Barton Creek resort, the Fazio Canyons layout is the second Tom Fazio design on the property. It opened for play in 1999, thirteen years after Fazio Foothills first made its mark here.
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Brook Hollow - Built on what was at that time open, rolling farmland, the lush acres of Brook Hollow Golf Club have unfortunately become surrounded by housing...
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Mangawhai - Mangawhai Golf Club was established as a nine-holer in 1979 and at one stage the course was officially rated the most difficult in New Zealand from its back tees.
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Russley - With many holes lined by avenues of stately trees, Russley is a delightful course and, according to folklore, the key to a good score is "Medio Tutissimus Ibis".
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Oak Hills - The Oak Hills Country Club course in San Antonio hosted the Texas Open 19 times between 1961 and 1994. Its tight, tree-lined fairways were fashioned by A.W. Tillinghast in 1922 with Jay Morrish making some modifications in the 1980s.
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Miramont - Opening in 2005, the Robert Trent Jones Jnr-designed course at Miramont Country Club is quite a strategic test. Water hazards feature at thirteen of the holes, but thankfully, forced carries have been kept to a minimum.
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Rotorua (Arikikapakapa) - Unique natural features abound on the Rotorua course, include bubbling mud pools, steam vents, sulphur mounds, steamy, warm water creeks and a huge thermal crater to the left of the 14th hole.
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Invercargill - Founded in the early 1900s, Invercargill Golf Club is one of the oldest golf clubs in New Zealand.
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River Oaks - Situated close to downtown Houston, the golf course at River Oaks Country Club sits on rather flat ground next to the winding waters of Buffalo Bayou. It’s an old Donald Ross design from 1924 that was revamped by Rees Jones in the 1990s.
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Walden - Robert von Hagge and Bruce Devlin routed the 18 holes at Walden Golf Club on Lake Conroe around a real estate development in 1976. The 582-yard 11th - the third of three consecutive par fives - is the star of the show, doglegging out of woods to a lakeside green.
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Mount Maunganui - Mount Maunganui Golf Club shares its name with the extinct volcano that rises above the course and also the town – known locally as “The Mount” – which is a popular surfing resort...
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St Clair - The 1970s was St Clair Golf Club’s golden era, as it hosted the televised Otago Charity Classic for nine years from 1970.
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Escondido - The fairways of the Tom Fazio-designed course at Escondido Golf and Lake Club lie on either side of Pecan Creek. The front nine holes are laid out on open ground to the north of the creek with the shorter back nine routed in a clockwise fashion on the other side.
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Barton Creek (Fazio Foothills) - One of four 18-hole designs at the Barton Creek resort, the Fazio Foothills layout - which celebrated the silver anniversary of its inauguration in 2011 - was constructed on an undulating site that permits the routing to change elevation several times during a round.
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Grange - The Grange Golf Club is probably best known for hosting the New Zealand Open five times between 1970 and 2004, won along the way by such notables as Bob Charles (1970) and Rodger Davis (1986)...
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TPC Craig Ranch - Many of the fairways on the TPC Craig Ranch course are routed around Rowlett Creek, which wanders through a long, narrow plot of land. Designed by Tom Weiskopf, this private facility first opened for golfing action in 2004.
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Formosa - Laid out on a large 440-acre cliff top site and modeled on Augusta National by course architect Bob Charles, the 18 holes at Formosa are the centerpiece of the resort.
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Napier - Established in 1896, Napier Golf Club is one of the oldest clubs in New Zealand and was host venue to the inaugural New Zealand Open in 1907.
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Vaquero - Established in 2001, the Vaquero Club is an exclusive private course laid out within a large gated estate to the north west of Dallas where membership is by invitation only.
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Rawls - When Tom Doak constructed the Rawls course at Texas Tech in 2003, he shifted more earth on a dead flat site than had been moved in his previous ten projects combined.
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Wanaka - The two nines at Wanaka Golf Club are very different; the front nine full of undulations, the green sites artfully perched and nestled amongst the rolling terrain...
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Shadow Hawk - George Bush, 41st President of the United States, officially opened the course at Shadow Hawk Golf Club in 1999. A Rees Jones design, with fairways routed around Pecan trees and several lakes, it sits on a 240-acre property in Richmond, some 28 miles to the west of downtown Houston.
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Cromwell - Cromwell Golf Club is an intriguing blend of rolling heathland territory with a certain whiff of links golf thrown in, and will aptly complement any tour of the region’s more famous courses.
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Boot Ranch - The 18-hole layout at Boot Ranch Golf Club is the focal point of a residential development located to the north of Fredericksburg. Opened in 2005, the course brings Palo Alto Creek into play at several holes.
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Remuera - The present day course at Remuera Golf Club has evolved through the years, with architectural input from a number of different sources.
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Cimarron Hills - With low density house situated in and around the course, the fairways of the Jack Nicklaus-designed layout at Cimarron Hills Golf & Country Club are set around the south fork of the San Gabriel River.
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Harewood (Woodlands) - In 2012, Harewood Golf Club upgraded their main course and they hired Greg Turner & Scott Macpherson who have completed a number of well-crafted redevelopments in the South Island.
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Taupo (Centennial) - The Centennial course at Taupo Golf Club is a fine example of a classic Kiwi inland course, set amongst the thermal activity prevalent in this region.
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Cordillera Ranch - The sporting activities at the Clubs of Cordillera Ranch are many - and they include athletics, tennis, fishing, shooting and equestrianism - but it’s the Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course that takes pride of place within a 780-acre residential site in Texas Hill country.
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Boulcott's Farm - The golf clubs of Hutt (formed in 1892) and Boulcott (founded in 1938) were amalgamated in 2010, thus creating New Zealand’s first Heritage Golf Club at Boulcott’s Farm.
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Shady Oaks - Twenty years after businessman Marvin Leonard constructed the course at Colonial, he commissioned Robert Trent Jones Snr to build another 18 holes at Shady Oaks Country Club, disregarding the advice of his friend and advisor Ben Hogan who thought the site was too hilly.
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Waipu - Occupying a beautiful 130-acre coastal site between the small towns of Waipu and Ruakaka, the Uretiti Links course at Waipu Golf Club overlooks the islands of Taranga and Little Alice in Bream Bay…
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Butterfield Trail - One of only a small number of public golf courses designed by Tom Fazio, the 18-hole layout at Butterfield Trail cost a reputed $23 million to construct on land adjacent to El Paso International airport.
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Preston Trail - The Byron Nelson Golf Classic was held at Preston Trail Golf Club between 1968 and 1982, before the PGA Tour moved it on to pastures new. The course sits on a property bisected by White Rock Creek so it’s no surprise to find water involved at a number of the holes here.
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Manukau - Characterised by tight, tree-lined fairways, the course at Manukau Golf Club is a tough but fair test that asks serious questions of golfers…
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Kaitaia - Located close to the small town of Ahipara, the fairways of Kaitaia Golf Club’s 90 Mile Beach Golf Links fan out along the southern shores of a long, sandy coastline, offering panoramic views across to Shipwreck Bay and the Tasman Sea beyond.
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Austin Golf Club - Occupying gently rolling, lightly wooded terrain to the south east of Spicewood, the eighteen holes at Austin Golf Club were draped onto the landscape by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw in 2001.
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Hills (Hills) - The Hills course at The Hills Country Club is one of two 18-hole Nicklaus courses to be found at a wonderful 36-hole facility. The Golden Bear is credited with the solo design of the Hills layout whilst the newer Flintrock Falls course was a co-design with his son Jack Nicklaus II.
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Nelson - The course at Nelson Golf Club has been gradually evolving, and in recent years over 450 trees have been felled, revealing a more traditional links layout that was obscured for years.
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Waitangi - Waitangi Golf Club is literally over the hedge from the Treaty grounds, situated on land purchased in 1932 by the Governor General of New Zealand and his wife, Lord and Lady Bledisloe.
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Hills (Flintrock Falls) - The Flintrock Falls course was the second of two Nicklaus layouts to be unveiled at The Hills Country Club with design credit attributed to the Golden Bear and his son Jack Nicklaus II.
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Stonebridge Ranch (Dye) - Part of a massive residential development that features 45 golf holes, the Dye course at Stonebridge Ranch Country Club is an interesting and challenging Pete Dye design that first opened for play in 1988.
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Rockport - Laid out on a flat tract of land next to Arkansas Bay, the course at Rockport Country Club was constructed by Bill Coore back in 1984, long before he teamed up with Ben Crenshaw to form their formidable design partnership.
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Tribute - Template holes from eleven famous Scottish links courses were used by Tripp Davis to create the course at The Tribute Golf Club. Golfers even have to drive over a shed to the right of the tee at the Road Hole 17th.
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Lochinvar - Lochinvar Golf Club was the venue of the first Jack Nicklaus course to be designed in Texas back in 1980 with fairways laid out on a tight, forested site next to Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental airport.
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Crown Colony - A number of factors combine to make Crown Colony Country Club a pretty tough golf course to play.
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Texas Star - Operated by the City of Euless in Tarrant County, the Texas Star course is one of the best daily rate venues in the Dallas/Forth Worth area with significant elevation changes occurring on many of the tree-lined holes.
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Comanche Trace (Hills & Valley) - Tom Kite (assisted by Roy Bechtol and Randy Russell) laid out the original 18 holes at The Club at Comanche Trace in 2000 (now called The Hills and The Valley nines) before Jay Morrish added a further 9-hole circuit (called The Creeks) in 2008.
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Wolfdancer - The Colorado River skirts the west flank of the Arthur Hills-designed course at Wolfdancer Golf Club and, indeed, stray shots down the right of the closing holes might just end up in the water.
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Texarkana Golf Ranch - Situated in the north east corner of Texas, less than five miles from the border with Arkansas, the course at Texarkana Golf Ranch is a Jim Fazio 18-hole layout where half the holes on the card touch the waters of Bringle Lake.
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Glenwild - Tom Fazio crafted the course at Glenwild Golf Club and Spa in 2001 and it culminates in a testing par five 18th that doglegs left around a shimmering lake on the way to the home green.
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Promontory Club (Painted Valley) - The Jack Nicklaus-designed Painted Valley course at the Promontory Club debuted in 2007. It measures a mammoth 8,000 yards in length which, at altitude, is the equivalent of around 7,300 yards… unsurprisingly, it’s rated Utah’s most difficult course.
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Promontory Club (Canyon) - In 2002, Pete Dye’s Canyon course was the first of two 18-hole layouts to open for play at the Promontory Club. The front nine holes are laid out in open terrain whilst the shorter back nine climbs into more hilly territory.
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Tuhaye - The Tuhaye golf course sits within a massive 10,000-acre residential development close to the Jordanelle Reservoir and its eighteen holes extend to an incredible 7,800 yards from the back markers.
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Salt Lake - One of the rare Golden Age designs to be found in Utah, the course at Salt Lake Country Club was pegged out by Willie Watson – of Olympic Club and Interlachen fame – back in 1921. In more recent times, architect John Harbottle carried out an 18-month renovation of the layout in 2006.
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Entrada at Snow Canyon - Surrounded by red sandstone cliffs, the Entrada course at Snow Canyon Country Club was unveiled in the mid 1990s. It’s an exciting layout that weaves around a desert landscape with fairways skirting black lava beds and rugged arroyos.
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Coral Canyon - Opening with two stout par fives, the Coral Canyon golf course stretches to just over 7,000 yards from the tournament tees. It’s a spectacular Keith Foster design where the deep emerald hue of the fairways contrasts sharply against the red rock of the surrounding desert landscape.
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Sand Hollow (Championship) - Located 12 miles south west of Hurricane, the Championship course at the Sand Hollow Resort golf complex is a John Fought design that’s complemented by the 9-hole Links layout at an engaging 27-hole golf complex.
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Willow Creek - Renovated in 2005, two years before the 50th anniversary of its formation, the course at Willow Creek Country Club lies on a 166-acre site in Sandy, Salt Lake County, close to the towering Wasatch Mountain range.
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Thanksgiving Point - Designed by Johnny Miller in 1997, the Thanksgiving Point golf course is one of the longest layouts in the Beehive State, measuring over 7,700 yards from the back tees.
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Homestead (Cascades) - The Homestead mountain setting is truly delightful and the Cascades course looks totally natural with its ponds, streams and slopes, but the fairways were blasted through the limestone using tons of dynamite.
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Olde Farm - The Olde Farm Golf Club is located at Bristol in southwest Virginia and the Bobby Weed-designed course opened for play in 2000.
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Robert Trent Jones - Robert Trent Jones Golf Club bears all the trademark design traits of the old master – expansive fairways, plenty of water hazards, lots of flashed bunker complexes and large, contoured greens.
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Ballyhack - Set in a dramatic 190-acre tract of land that rises and falls spectacularly with breathtaking elevation changes, Ballyhack Golf Club is pure golf.
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Farmington (North & South) - The holes at Farmington Country Club extend on three sides of the elegant clubhouse – a former plantation house – and the entire round is played under the watchful guard of several mountain ranges.
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Virginia, Country Club of (James River) - The James River course is one of three impressive 18-hole layouts used by members of the Country Club of Virginia.
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Virginian - Laid out over rolling terrain in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, the Virginian Golf Club is a wonderfully member-friendly course where the fairways are wide and forgiving...
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Kingsmill (River) - The River golf course at the Kingsmill Resort was an annual fixture on the PGA Tour for a couple of decades when it hosted the Michelob Championship...
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Golden Horseshoe (Gold) - The Golden Horseshoe golf complex is one of the finest golfing destinations in all of the United States, featuring two formidable 18-hole layouts and a charming executive course...
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Bay Creek (Nicklaus) - Bay Creek boasts a couple of signature golf course designs from two of the all-time golfing greats. The Nicklaus course opened in 2006 five years after the Palmer.
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Bayville - Around 400,000 cubic yards of earth was moved during the construction of Bayville Golf Club to form a number of lakes...
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Trump National (River) - Washington - Laid out on a bluff overlooking the Potomac River, there are 36 holes of golf to be played at Trump National Golf Club, Washington DC. Tom Fazio laid out the original 18-hole Island course and it was joined by the Arthur Hills-designed River course in 1998.
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Highland at Primland - Martin Ebert laid out the fairways of the Highland course here at Primland along the tops of ridges and through valleys with holes offering sensational views...
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Spring Creek - Spring Creek Golf Club was originally intended to be one of a number of new Virginian golf courses that would form a “Sam Snead Golf Trail”...
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Hermitage (Manakin) - Hermitage Country Club moved to its Goochland site in 1977 where Ed Ault constructed 27 holes, 18 of which now comprise the Manakin layout. Arthur Hills added a fourth nine in 1989 and this circuit, combined with nine from the original layout, form the 18-hole Sabot course.
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Mattaponi Springs - The planning and construction of the Mattaponi Springs golf course took quite some time before it opened in 2004... seven years in fact.
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Tradition Club (Royal New Kent) - Imagine plucking up Royal County Down by its roots and transplanting it, bunkers, dunes and fescue included, to a hilly inland tree-lined landscape, then you’ll have an idea as to what Royal New Kent is like.
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Poplar Grove - Architect Ed Carton consulted Sam Snead about the new course he was working on at Poplar Grove Golf Club in 2001, the year before Slammin’ Sammy passed away. It was a shrewd move because many of the great man’s suggestions found their way into the design.
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Homestead (Lower Cascades) - Even though they physically lie a few miles apart, the Lower Cascades golf course at the Homestead Resort sits in the shadow of the celebrated Cascades layout...
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Bay Creek (Palmer) - The fairways of the Palmer golf course at Bay Creek traverse wetland areas and glide past sizeable water hazards - such as Plantation Creek on the 17th...
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Blue Ridge Shadows - The course at Blue Ridge Shadows Golf Club is laid out as two distinctly different nines. One is undulating and tree-lined while the other is more open and flatter, routed round wetlands and water hazards...
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Ekwanok - The charming course at Ekwanok Country Club was designed by Walter Travis at the start of the last century and such was his golfing prowess at the time, he won the US Amateur Championship on three occasions...
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Golden Horseshoe (Green) - A round on the Green golf course at Golden Horseshoe begins with four sturdy par fours, followed by a solid 3-shot par five that dog legs to the right...
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Green Mountain National - Laid out in dense woodland close to the Killington Ski complex, the Gene Bates-designed Green Mountain National Golf Course was the first municipal layout to open in the state of Vermont when it debuted in 1997.
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Vermont, Country Club of - Graham Cooke designed the engaging 18-hole layout at The Country Club of Vermont in 1998 with two contrasting circuits – the front nine is played out on open, rolling terrain with the back nine routed through dense woodland.
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Stonewall Golf Club - Stonewall Golf Club is set within an aesthetically pleasing plot of land with fairways routed over a wonderful rolling landscape.
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Lansdowne (Norman) - The front nine of the Norman course at the Golf Club of Lansdowne are routed along the Potomac River, then the back nine returns west along the river towards Goose Creek.
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Okemo Valley - Unveiled in 2000, the course at Okemo Valley Golf Club it a Steve Durkee design that lies on the other side of the main highway leading to the ski slopes at the Okemo Mountain Resort.
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Equinox - Walter Travis laid out the fairways at Ekwanok in 1900 when at the height of his playing powers. He returned to construct the 18 holes at the neighboring Golf Club at Equinox shortly before he died 27 years later.
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Sahalee (South & North) - Sahalee Country Club played host to the 1998 PGA Championship and the 2002 World Golf Championship so it goes without saying that Sahalee is championship calibre.
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Denarau - Fiji’s premier championship course is laid out at the resort of Denarau Golf & Racquet Club and its generous, open fairways wind their way around stands of giant coconut palm trees and tidal waterways...
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Natadola Bay - Set out on a spectacular site overlooking the Pacific Ocean on the southwest coast of Fiji, local golfing hero Vijay Singh (in association with the design team at IMG) should have laid out the fairways at Natadola Bay...
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Aldarra - Constructed on a 560-acre property that once belonged to the Boeing family, Tom Fazio’s course at The Members Club at Aldarra was his first project in the Pacific Northwest region, opening in 2001.
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Tumble Creek - Laid out on high ground above the Cle Elum River, the spectacular 18-hole Tumble Creek mountain golf course is an understated Tom Doak layout...
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Pearl South Pacific Fiji - One of Fiji's best courses is found at the Pearl South Pacific Fiji Resort, designed by American architects Robert Trent Jones Jr. and Gary Roger Baird.
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TPC Snoqualmie Ridge - Set out in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, the 18-hole layout at TPC Snoqualmie Ridge is a Jack Nicklaus signature course that’s routed around a substantial residential development.
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Seattle - Seattle Golf Club was founded in 1900 and the club moved to its current location on the slopes above Puget Sound seven years after its formation. The course lies on a rather compact site with holes laid out around a forest of stately pine trees.
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Tina - The 5,889-metre Tina is the premier New Caledonian layout and the golf course uses the natural lie of the land to great effect with a hilly front nine and a back nine which follows the shoreline.
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Royal Oaks Country Club - One of the very few courses to be built immediately after World War II, the tree-lined track at Royal Oaks Country Club lies on an enclosed parcel of land four miles to the east of downtown Vancouver.
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Wine Valley - The course at Wine Valley Golf Club was designed by former touring professional Dan Hixson and is laid out over an expansive property with the Blue Mountains as a dramatic backcloth.
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Mangilao - The much-photographed par three 12th at Mangilao Golf Club invites a brave tee shot across a small bay to a putting surface perched on top of a rocky outcrop.
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Fircrest - Characterised by tight, tree-lined fairways, the course at Fircrest Golf Club is an A.V. Macan design dating back to 1924, the year after the club was founded.
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Palouse Ridge - Situated within the rolling hills on Washington State University’s Pullman campus, the course at Palouse Ridge Golf Club is a bold, dramatic design that came from the drawing board of architect John Harbottle III in 2008.
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Canterwood - The fairways of the 18-hole layout at Canterwood Golf and Country Club weave around a substantial residential development to the north of Gig Harbor, forming a tough test of golf for members and their guests.
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Gold Mountain (Olympic) - The original Ken Tyson-designed 18 holes at Gold Mountain Golf Club opened for play in 1971. Twenty-five years later, it was totally eclipsed by John Harbottle III’s Olympic layout, where the US Junior Amateur Championships were held in 2011.
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Desert Canyon - Set in the Columbia River Valley, the course at the Desert Canyon Golf Resort is a Jack Frei public facility that offers golfers an authentic desert golf experience in the shadow of the majestic Cascade Mountains.
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Port Ludlow (Tide & Timber) - Robert Muir Graves laid out The Resort at Port Ludlow’s three woodland 9-hole circuits, Tide, Timber and Trail. And, because each nine enjoys spectacular views over Ludlow Bay, we recommend that golfers play all 27 holes.
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Moorea - American architects Nicklaus Design and French construction company Gregori International were the main players when Moorea was established in 2008, making it the first luxury resort in Polynesia.
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Inglewood - Inglewood Golf Club was established in 1919 and within two years of its formation, architect AV Macan and Seattle professional Bob Johnstone had shaped an 18-hole course on the gentle slopes overlooking Lake Washington.
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Plateau - With woodland dominating the front nine and wetlands coming into play on the back nine, the golf course at The Plateau Club is renowned as a tough track. Its design came about after Pete Dye’s unlikely collaboration with Masatsugu Saito in the late 1990s.
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Royal Samoa - It's on the outward half that the signature hole is found at Royal Samoa, a blind par three at the 6th which is played to a blind green nestled in a gully.
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Suncadia (Prospector) - The 18-hole Prospector course at the Suncadia Resort was the first of two public tracks to open at a 54-hole facility which also includes the private Tumble Creek Club layout.
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Indian Summer - Peter Thomson’s layout at the Indian Summer Golf & Country Club is both long and tough, with water coming into play at more than half the holes on the card.
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Eaglemont - Offering stunning views of Mt. Baker and the surrounding Skagit Valley, the course at Eaglemont Golf Club is a John Steidel design that first opened for play in 1993.
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Tacoma - Renovated by John Steidel in 1989 when he added three new holes, the short, tree-lined old course at Tacoma Country & Golf Club is more than a century old.
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Lao Lao Bay (East) - The East is the premier of the two Lao Lao Bay courses and it’s laid out along the cliffs, with spectacular views from the 4th to 7th overlooking the shoreline.
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Lawsonia (Links) - The links course at Lawsonia cost $250k to build in 1930, so it’s no surprise that William B. Langford’s design is recognised as one of America’s gems.
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Erin Hills - The golf course at Erin Hills only opened in 2006 but it has already been selected to hold the US Amateur Championships in 2011 and the US Open in 2017.
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Whistling Straits (Irish) - With fairways set further in from Lake Michigan than the Straits course, the Irish was unveiled at Whistling Straits a couple of years after its older sibling debuted. Golfers need to watch out for water and sandy waste areas, both of which appear as intimidating hazards on this course.
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Blue Mound - Gene Sarazen won the USPGA Championship at Blue Mound Golf & Country Club back in 1933, seven years after Seth Raynor had set out an 18-hole course crammed with replica holes such as a Biarritz at the 3rd and an Eden at the 17th.
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Oneida - Routed around the meandering waters of Duck Creek, the fairways at Oneida Golf & Country Club were laid out by Stanley Pelcher – aided, some say, by Harry Colt’s partner CH Alison – in 1928.
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Bull at Pinehurst Farms - The Bull golf course at Pinehurst Farms in Sheboygan Falls is a Jack Nicklaus layout, the first that the Golden Bear designed in the Badger State. It’s laid out around a residential development where water comes into play a couple of times on each nine.
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Blackwolf Run (Meadow Valleys) - The 2012 US Women’s Open will be held at Blackwolf Run and the Championship course will comprise the back nine of the Meadow Valleys layout (which features water on the last three holes) plus holes 1-4 and 14-18 of the River course.
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SentryWorld - Located beside the Schmeeckle Reserve to the north of Stevens Point, the course at SentryWorld Golf Club is a Robert Trent Jones Jnr layout that winds its way round a couple of huge spring-fed lakes.
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University Ridge - Laid out in two returning loops of nine, the University Ridge Golf Course is a Robert Trent Jones Jnr layout that has challenged golfers in the Madison area for more than two decades now.
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Minocqua - Golf has been played at Minocqua Country Club since 1915 but a decision was made in the late 1990s to expand the club’s old 9-hole track to an 18-hole course so Ron Garl was called in to design a new layout which duly debuted in 2001.
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Green Bay - Opened in 1995, Green Bay Country Club offers members a number of sporting amenities including a swimming pool, tennis courts and a modern Dick Nugent-designed 18-hole golf course.
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Lae - Lae Golf Club has undergone significant changes in recent years with the addition of many bunkers and the planting of many new trees.
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Trappers Turn (Lake & Canyon) - The original 18-holes at Trappers Turn Golf Club were the result of a partnership between 2-time US Open winner Andy North and architect Roger Packard back in 1991.
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Powder Horn (Mountain & Stag) - The Rocky Mountain golf community of Powder Horn is located in a 900-acre site beneath the watchful guard of the Big Horn Mountains.
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Shooting Star - Tom Fazio is reported to have shifted more than one and a half million cubic yards of earth when he created the golf course at Shooting Star and his routing brings a number of creeks and lakes into play at thirteen of the holes.
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3 Creek Ranch - With mountain views to die for, the course at 3 Creek Ranch Golf Club is a Rees Jones-designed layout that’s set out on the largely level landscape of Jackson Hole valley.
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Teton Pines - Ed Seay and Arnold Palmer established the layout at the Teton Pines Resort in the late 1980s when they laid out the fairways around several sizeable man-made lakes on the floor of the Jackson Hole valley.
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Jackson Hole - Robert Trent Jones Jnr renovated the Jackson Hole Golf & Tennis Club course in 2007 when he redesigned the 1st and 15th holes, lengthened the layout by adding twenty new tees and installed a new state-of-the-art irrigation system.
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Baker Hill - Situated on what used to be farmland close to Lake Sunapee, the Rees Jones-designed layout at Baker Hill Golf Club opened with nine holes in 2001, followed by another nine a year later.
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Lake Winnipesaukee - “Winnipesaukee” is the Abenaki Indian name for “lake around islands” and the course at Lake Winnipesaukee Golf Club became another “island” in the New Durham area when it opened for play in 1990.
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New England - A 2002 Arnold Palmer design, the eighteen holes at the Golf Club of New England are mainly tree-lined, with ponds and wetlands coming into play at the closing holes on the back nine.
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Lake Sunapee - A recent restoration by Ron Forse - when he removed many of the trees that were closing in on the fairways - has brought this charming old Donald Ross course back to life at Lake Sunapee Country Club in the new millennium.
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Portsmouth - Formed in 1901, Portsmouth Country Club moved to its present location on the shores of Great Bay in the late 1950s when Robert Trent Jones fashioned a new 18-hole layout for the members.
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Montcalm - Laid out in over 350 acres of hardwood forest in the mountain area of Enfield, the course at Montcalm Golf Club was four years in the making, finally debuting in 2004.
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Balsams (Panorama) - Situated close to the International Boundary with Canada, the Panorama course at the Balsams Resort is an old Donald Ross layout where fairways somehow manage to cling to the western slopes of Keazer Mountain.
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Manchester Country Club - It’s a little known fact that less than a third of over 400 Donald Ross layouts were actually visited by the architect before they opened for play. The course at Manchester Country Club is one that he did see, opening in 1923.
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Shattuck - Every hole is secluded on the layout at the Shattuck Golf Club because forests of oak, birch and pine trees frame the fairways. It’s been described as “18 separate gems strung together in a perfect setting”.
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Owl’s Nest - Located in the beautiful White Mountain National Forest, the 18-hole course at the Owl’s Nest Resort is laid out in three distinct sections, ending with six holes that are set on top of Sunset Hill.
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Stone Forest (Leaders Peak) - One of three magnificent courses to be found at Stone Forest International Country Club, the Leaders Peak layout is a stunning collection of 18 holes that are routed around some truly breathtaking rock formations
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Spring City (Lake) - For what is ostensibly a resort layout, the Lake golf course at Spring City, Kunming, is a tough test. No hole could be described as easy.
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Mission Hills (Lava Fields) - With fairways characterised by large waste bunkers, the Lava Fields course at Mission Hills can be stretched to a mammoth 7,475 yards from the championship tees...
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Spring City (Mountain) - The Jack Nicklaus designed Mountain golf course at Spring City in China kept a little closer to the resort brief and is consequently a more forgiving course compared with Trent Jones Jnr's design slightly lower down the hill.
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Mission Hills (Blackstone) - Venue for the Omega Mission Hills World Cup in 2011, the Blackstone course on Hainan Island covers 350 acres of a rugged landscape that’s dominated by lava rock, lakes and wetlands. The colour contrast between black stone, green grass and white sand is simply stunning.
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Sheshan - Sheshan Golf Club is the epitome of Shanghai and it’s an intoxicating blend of Chinese tradition and international modernity.
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Shanghai Links - The private Jack Nicklaus Signature course at Shanghai Links Golf & Country Club is laid out within a 410-acre residential site next to the East China Sea where it’s hard to imagine you are just half an hour’s drive from the centre of the most populated city in China.
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Dunes (West) - The Dunes at Shenzhou Peninsula is located on the south eastern coast of Hainan Island and here you’ll find an exciting 36-hole facility with Tom Weiskopf’s West course as the centrepiece.
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Mission Hills (Norman) - Mission Hills, the world's biggest golf club, just gets bigger. Now with 216 golf holes, choice is no problem, but if you want a great course choose Greg Norman’s.
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Reignwood Pine Valley (Golden Bear) - Situated 35 miles northwest of Beijing, the Reignwood Pine Valley golf resort is China’s first invitation-only club and the Golden Bear layout is one of three Jack Nicklaus courses available to a rather exclusive membership.
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Lion Lake (Moon) - Situated less than an hour’s drive from Guangzhou, Southern China’s largest city, the Lion Lake Country Club is the first upscale resort to be established in the Pearl River Delta region of the country...
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Wind Valley (Member) - The Nelson and Haworth layout at Wind Valley in Shenzhen is probably loved and loathed by golfers in equal measure. It’s an extreme mountain course with extraordinary elevation changes which some will find thrilling while others will question the validity of building such an extreme test.
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