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The Top 100 Resort Courses

Every course on this list takes a tee time — no member required. From Bandon's bluffs to Pinehurst's sandhills, Golfweek's ranking of America's best resort golf, paired with the amateur tournaments you can actually enter at each one.

  1. #2Bandon Dunes Golf Resort

    Pacific Dunes

    Bandon, Oregon · Tom Doak, 2001

    Doak's masterwork routed through natural blowout dunes on the Pacific — the modern links standard-setter.

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  2. #3Pinehurst Resort

    Pinehurst No. 2

    Pinehurst, North Carolina · Donald Ross, 1907

    Ross's crowned greens in the Carolina Sandhills — the anchor site of the U.S. Open and American resort golf's cathedral.

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    3 past amateur events hosted
  3. #4Whistling Straits (Destination Kohler)

    The Straits

    Mosel, Wisconsin · Pete Dye, 1998

    Dye's manufactured Irish links along two miles of Lake Michigan shore — host to three PGA Championships and the 2021 Ryder Cup.

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    1 past amateur event hosted
  4. #5Bandon Dunes Golf Resort

    Bandon Trails

    Bandon, Oregon · Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw, 2005

    The inland journey at Bandon — dunes to meadow to coastal forest and back, with some of the property's best green sites.

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  5. #6Bandon Dunes Golf Resort

    Old Macdonald

    Bandon, Oregon · Tom Doak & Jim Urbina, 2010

    A giant-scale tribute to C.B. Macdonald's template holes, played across the broadest, wildest greens at Bandon.

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  6. #7Bandon Dunes Golf Resort

    Bandon Dunes

    Bandon, Oregon · David McLay Kidd, 1999

    The original course that launched America's destination-links boom and put the Oregon coast on the world golf map.

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    4 past amateur events hosted
  7. #9Kiawah Island Golf Resort

    The Ocean Course

    Kiawah Island, South Carolina · Pete Dye, 1991

    Ten holes hard against the Atlantic and wind that changes everything — home of the 1991 "War by the Shore" Ryder Cup and two PGA Championships.

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    4 past amateur events hosted
  8. #10Pebble Beach Resorts

    Spyglass Hill

    Pebble Beach, California · Robert Trent Jones Sr., 1966

    Five opening holes in the dunes, thirteen more through the Del Monte pines — the sternest test on the Monterey Peninsula.

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  9. #11Sand Valley

    The Lido

    Nekoosa, Wisconsin · C.B. Macdonald (recreated by Tom Doak), 2023

    A shot-for-shot resurrection of Macdonald's lost Long Island masterpiece, rebuilt from digital archaeology in the Wisconsin sand barrens.

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  10. #12TPC Sawgrass

    TPC Sawgrass (Players Stadium)

    Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida · Pete Dye, 1980

    The original stadium course and home of The Players — capped by the most famous island green in golf.

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  11. T13Bandon Dunes Golf Resort

    Sheep Ranch

    Bandon, Oregon · Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw, 2020

    Bunkerless golf on a bluff-top headland — nine greens sit on the Pacific edge, every hole exposed to the wind.

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  12. #15Pinehurst Resort

    Pinehurst No. 10

    Aberdeen, North Carolina · Tom Doak & Angela Moser, 2024

    Pinehurst's newest — Doak routing through dramatic sand ridges and a former mining site five miles from the main clubhouse.

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    3 past amateur events hosted
  13. #16Sand Valley

    Sand Valley

    Nekoosa, Wisconsin · Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw, 2017

    The course that revealed central Wisconsin's sand barrens as heathland-golf country — broad fairways and native-sand chaos.

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  14. #17Streamsong Resort

    Streamsong Red

    Bowling Green, Florida · Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw, 2012

    Coore-Crenshaw strategy woven through the dunes of a reclaimed phosphate mine — Florida golf that plays nothing like Florida.

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  15. #18Sand Valley

    Mammoth Dunes

    Nekoosa, Wisconsin · David McLay Kidd, 2018

    Kidd at his most playable — enormous fairways, a drivable par-4 signature, and fun as the organizing principle.

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  16. #19Streamsong Resort

    Streamsong Blue

    Bowling Green, Florida · Tom Doak, 2012

    Doak's bolder half of Streamsong's original pair — bigger dunes, wilder greens, and the famous punchbowl seventh.

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  17. T20Erin Hills

    Erin Hills

    Erin, Wisconsin · Michael Hurdzan, Dana Fry & Ron Whitten, 2006

    A walking-only U.S. Open venue (2017) draped over glacial kettle moraine — fescue-framed and enormous in scale.

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    1 past amateur event hosted
  18. T20Gamble Sands

    Gamble Sands

    Brewster, Washington · David McLay Kidd, 2014

    Wide-open high-desert golf above the Columbia River — the friendliest great course in America.

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  19. #24Sea Island

    Seaside

    St. Simons Island, Georgia · Harry Colt & Charles Alison, 1929

    Marshland golf on Georgia's Golden Isles — a Colt & Alison original polished by Fazio, and the home of the PGA Tour's RSM Classic.

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  20. #26Sand Valley

    Sedge Valley

    Nekoosa, Wisconsin · Tom Doak, 2024

    A par-68 heathland homage that proves short can be serious — England's Swinley Forest spirit in Wisconsin sand.

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  21. T27Streamsong Resort

    Streamsong Black

    Bowling Green, Florida · Gil Hanse & Jim Wagner, 2017

    The biggest and brawniest of Streamsong's three — Hanse's enormous greens and open vistas across the old mine land.

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  22. T27Arcadia Bluffs

    Arcadia Bluffs (Bluffs)

    Arcadia, Michigan · Warren Henderson & Rick Smith, 1999

    Lake Michigan's answer to seaside golf — 245 feet of bluff, endless water views, and Irish-links pretensions honestly earned.

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    2 past amateur events hosted
  23. T30Omni Homestead Resort

    The Cascades

    Hot Springs, Virginia · William Flynn, 1923

    Flynn's Allegheny mountain-valley gem — long the standard for American mountain golf and Sam Snead's home course.

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    1 past amateur event hosted
  24. #32Pinehurst Resort

    Pinehurst No. 4

    Pinehurst, North Carolina · Gil Hanse & Jim Wagner, 2018

    Hanse's rugged sandhills rebuild next door to No. 2 — exposed sand, dramatic scale, and a personality all its own.

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    3 past amateur events hosted
  25. #33The Prairie Club

    The Dunes

    Valentine, Nebraska · Tom Lehman & Chris Brands, 2010

    Big, borderless golf across the Nebraska Sandhills — fescue horizons in every direction and not a house in sight.

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    1 past amateur event hosted
  26. #34Fallen Oak

    Fallen Oak

    Saucier, Mississippi · Tom Fazio, 2006

    Fazio's Gulf Coast counterpart to Shadow Creek — manicured seclusion in the DeSoto National Forest, exclusive to Beau Rivage guests.

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    2 past amateur events hosted
  27. #36Forest Dunes

    The Loop

    Roscommon, Michigan · Tom Doak, 2016

    Doak's reversible experiment — eighteen greens played clockwise one day, counterclockwise the next, two courses in one footprint.

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    1 past amateur event hosted
  28. #37Mossy Oak Golf Club

    Mossy Oak

    West Point, Mississippi · Gil Hanse & Jim Wagner, 2016

    Hanse's prairie-links take on Mississippi's Black Belt — open, firm, and framed by a working wildlife conservancy.

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    4 past amateur events hosted
  29. T41Big Cedar Lodge

    Ozarks National

    Hollister, Missouri · Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw, 2018

    Coore-Crenshaw across Ozarks ridgetops — holes leap ravine to ravine with long views over the hollows.

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    1 past amateur event hosted
  30. T41Mid Pines Inn & Golf Club

    Mid Pines

    Southern Pines, North Carolina · Donald Ross, 1921

    An untouched Ross routing restored by Kyle Franz — the Sandhills' coziest stay-and-play and a walker's delight.

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  31. T41Princeville Makai Golf Club

    Princeville Makai

    Princeville, Hawaii · Robert Trent Jones Jr., 1971

    Cliff-top golf on Kauai's north shore — ocean carries over Hanalei Bay with Bali Hai's peaks behind.

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    1 past amateur event hosted
  32. #44Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club

    Pine Needles

    Southern Pines, North Carolina · Donald Ross, 1927

    A four-time U.S. Women's Open site — Ross greens restored to their crowned glory in the heart of the Sandhills.

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  33. T46Cabot Citrus Farms

    Karoo

    Brooksville, Florida · Kyle Franz, 2024

    Cabot's Florida flagship — sandy, rambunctious golf over the rolling terrain of old citrus country north of Tampa.

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    2 past amateur events hosted
  34. T46The Greenbrier

    The Old White

    White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia · C.B. Macdonald & Seth Raynor, 1914

    America's first great resort course — Macdonald templates in an Allegheny valley, host to the PGA Tour for a decade.

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    1 past amateur event hosted
  35. T49French Lick Resort

    Pete Dye Course

    French Lick, Indiana · Pete Dye, 2009

    Dye's hilltop farewell statement — volcano bunkers and forty-mile views across southern Indiana.

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    1 past amateur event hosted
  36. T49Silvies Valley Ranch

    Hankins

    Seneca, Oregon · Dan Hixson, 2017

    Half of America's only reversible resort pair — high-desert ranch golf in Oregon's remote Blue Mountains.

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    1 past amateur event hosted
  37. T49Omni PGA Frisco Resort

    Fields Ranch East

    Frisco, Texas · Gil Hanse & Jim Wagner, 2023

    The PGA of America's new home track — big Texas scale built to host championships, minutes from the PGA headquarters.

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  38. #55Firestone Country Club

    South Course

    Akron, Ohio · Bert Way (redesigned by Robert Trent Jones Sr.), 1929

    The tour's longtime Akron proving ground — a relentless parkland test with a stay-and-play tee sheet.

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    1 past amateur event hosted
  39. #56Omni La Costa Resort & Spa

    North Course

    Carlsbad, California · Gil Hanse & Jim Wagner, 2024

    Hanse's ground-up rebuild for the NCAA Championships — firm, strategic golf at the storied San Diego resort.

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    6 past amateur events hosted
  40. #57Golden Horseshoe Golf Club

    Gold Course

    Williamsburg, Virginia · Robert Trent Jones Sr., 1963

    RTJ's compact colonial-Williamsburg classic — no parallel fairways, four knockout par 3s over water.

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  41. T58Sand Hollow Resort

    Championship

    Hurricane, Utah · John Fought, 2008

    Red-rock rim golf in southern Utah — the back-nine canyon-edge stretch is the state's most dramatic run of holes.

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    2 past amateur events hosted
  42. #61Caledonia Golf & Fish Club

    Caledonia Golf & Fish Club

    Pawleys Island, South Carolina · Mike Strantz, 1994

    Strantz's Lowcountry jewel through century-old live oaks on an antebellum rice plantation — Myrtle Beach's finest.

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  43. T62Arcadia Bluffs

    Arcadia Bluffs (South)

    Arcadia, Michigan · Dana Fry & Jason Straka, 2018

    The inland sibling at Arcadia — a Chicago-school geometric design of squared-off greens and center-line bunkers.

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    2 past amateur events hosted
  44. T62Forest Dunes

    Forest Dunes

    Roscommon, Michigan · Tom Weiskopf, 2002

    Weiskopf's northern-Michigan stunner where jack-pine forest meets open dunesland — two courses in one landscape.

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    1 past amateur event hosted
  45. T62Rams Hill

    Rams Hill

    Borrego Springs, California · Tom Fazio, 2008

    A lush Fazio oasis ringed by the Anza-Borrego desert badlands — conditioning that defies its surroundings.

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    3 past amateur events hosted
  46. T62The Dunes Golf & Beach Club

    The Dunes Golf & Beach Club

    Myrtle Beach, South Carolina · Robert Trent Jones Sr., 1949

    RTJ's Grand Strand original — the famous "Waterloo" 13th bends around Lake Singleton on a course that built Myrtle Beach golf.

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    1 past amateur event hosted
  47. T62The Prairie Club

    The Pines

    Valentine, Nebraska · Graham Marsh, 2010

    The Dunes' wooded counterpart — golf along the ponderosa rim of the Snake River canyon.

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    1 past amateur event hosted
  48. T67Cascata

    Cascata

    Boulder City, Nevada · Rees Jones, 2000

    Rees Jones golf carved into a desert mountainside outside Vegas, with a waterfall crashing through the clubhouse.

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  49. T67Bay Hill Club & Lodge

    Bay Hill

    Orlando, Florida · Dick Wilson (redesigned by Arnold Palmer), 1961

    Arnold Palmer's winter home and the PGA Tour's Orlando anchor — stay at the lodge, play the King's course.

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  50. T67Sunriver Resort

    Crosswater

    Sunriver, Oregon · Bob Cupp & John Fought, 1995

    Heathland-style golf across the meadows and spring creeks of central Oregon, with Mount Bachelor on the horizon.

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    1 past amateur event hosted
  51. #72Wailea Golf Club

    Wailea Gold

    Wailea, Hawaii · Robert Trent Jones Jr., 1994

    The championship course of Maui's Wailea trio — lava-wall-lined fairways with panoramic views of Molokini and beyond.

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    3 past amateur events hosted
  52. T73Reynolds Lake Oconee

    Great Waters

    Greensboro, Georgia · Jack Nicklaus, 1992

    Nicklaus's lakeside showpiece at Reynolds — the entire back nine plays along the water of Lake Oconee.

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  53. T73Old Waverly Golf Club

    Old Waverly

    West Point, Mississippi · Bob Cupp & Jerry Pate, 1988

    Mississippi's stately parkland host of the 1999 U.S. Women's Open, paired across the street with Mossy Oak.

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    3 past amateur events hosted
  54. T73Gamble Sands

    Scarecrow

    Brewster, Washington · David McLay Kidd & Nick Schaan, 2025

    Gamble Sands' second act — bigger cliff-edge drama above the Columbia, built on the same play-it-forward philosophy.

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  55. #76Silvies Valley Ranch

    Craddock

    Seneca, Oregon · Dan Hixson, 2017

    The other direction at Silvies — the reversible routing's counterpart course across the same high-desert ranchland.

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    1 past amateur event hosted
  56. #77Whistling Straits (Destination Kohler)

    The Irish

    Mosel, Wisconsin · Pete Dye, 2000

    The Straits' inland companion — dunes, grassland, and four streams crossing a routing many locals sneak-prefer.

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    1 past amateur event hosted
  57. T78We-Ko-Pa Golf Club

    Saguaro

    Fort McDowell, Arizona · Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw, 2006

    Walkable Coore-Crenshaw desert golf on Yavapai Nation land — no houses, just saguaros and the Four Peaks skyline.

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  58. T78PGA National Resort

    The Champion

    Palm Beach Gardens, Florida · Tom & George Fazio (redesigned by Jack Nicklaus), 1981

    Home of the PGA Tour's Cognizant Classic and the infamous "Bear Trap" — three holes that wreck scorecards annually.

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  59. T81CordeValle

    CordeValle

    San Martin, California · Robert Trent Jones Jr., 2000

    Secluded luxury in the oak-studded hills south of Silicon Valley — a past U.S. Women's Open and PGA Tour host.

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    2 past amateur events hosted
  60. T81The Broadmoor

    East Course

    Colorado Springs, Colorado · Donald Ross (expanded by Robert Trent Jones Sr.), 1918

    Ross greens at 6,200 feet beneath Cheyenne Mountain — where Palmer won his U.S. Amateur and the Broadmoor's major history began.

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  61. T84Cape Cod National Golf Club

    Cape Cod National

    Brewster, Massachusetts · Brian Silva, 1998

    Silva's quietly excellent Cape design — kettle holes, sandy waste, and old-school New England golf.

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    1 past amateur event hosted
  62. #86Pinehurst Resort

    Pinehurst No. 8

    Pinehurst, North Carolina · Tom Fazio, 1996

    Fazio's centennial course for Pinehurst — sandhills and wetlands on the quiet side of the resort.

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    3 past amateur events hosted
  63. #87Red Sky Golf Club

    Fazio Course

    Wolcott, Colorado · Tom Fazio, 2002

    High-alpine Fazio near Vail — sage hillsides, aspen groves, and views across the Sawatch Range.

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  64. T88Mauna Lani Resort

    Mauna Lani (North)

    Waimea, Hawaii · Robin Nelson, 1981

    The lava-field sibling on the Kohala Coast — kiawe-framed holes cut through jagged a'a flows.

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    3 past amateur events hosted
  65. T90Wolf Creek Golf Club

    Wolf Creek

    Mesquite, Nevada · Dennis Rider, 2000

    The video-game course made real — impossibly vivid fairways plunging through Mesquite's painted desert canyons.

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    1 past amateur event hosted
  66. T94SentryWorld

    SentryWorld

    Stevens Point, Wisconsin · Robert Trent Jones Jr., 1982

    Wisconsin's original destination course, rebuilt to host the 2023 U.S. Senior Open — home of the famous "Flower Hole."

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    2 past amateur events hosted
  67. T94Tamarack Resort

    Osprey Meadows

    Tamarack, Idaho · Robert Trent Jones Jr., 2005

    Mountain-meadow golf beneath Idaho's West Central range, revived alongside the four-season resort around it.

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  68. #97Innisbrook Resort

    Copperhead

    Palm Harbor, Florida · Larry Packard, 1974

    Florida's rare hilly test — the PGA Tour's Valspar Championship venue with its closing "Snake Pit" gauntlet.

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    1 past amateur event hosted
  69. T98PGA West

    Stadium Course

    La Quinta, California · Pete Dye, 1986

    Dye's desert stadium spectacle — moonscape bunkers, the island 17th "Alcatraz," and an American Express Tour stop.

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    1 past amateur event hosted
  70. T98Coeur d'Alene Casino Resort

    Circling Raven

    Worley, Idaho · Gene Bates, 2003

    620 acres of Palouse wetlands and pine on Coeur d'Alene tribal land — huge in scale, generous in spirit.

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    1 past amateur event hosted
  71. #100True Blue Golf Club

    True Blue

    Pawleys Island, South Carolina · Mike Strantz, 1998

    Caledonia's wilder sibling — Strantz at full volume across sandy wastes of an old indigo plantation.

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