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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.

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  1. #1Pebble Beach Resorts

    Pebble Beach Golf Links

    Pebble Beach, California · Jack Neville & Douglas Grant, 1919

    The most famous public tee time in golf — cliff-top holes above Carmel Bay and a U.S. Open pedigree a century deep.

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    1 upcoming amateur eventNext: AmateurGolf.com 2027 Two Man Links and Father and Son at Pebble Beach (Mar 19 — 22, 2027) →
  2. #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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    1 upcoming amateur eventNext: AmateurGolf.com 2027 Two Man Links and Father and Son at Pebble Beach (Mar 19 — 22, 2027) →
  3. #39Cache Creek Casino Resort

    Yocha Dehe

    Brooks, California · Brad Bell, 2008

    Rolling golf through the olive groves and oak hills of the Capay Valley, an hour and a world away from Sacramento.

  4. #48Pebble Beach Resorts

    The Links at Spanish Bay

    Pebble Beach, California · Robert Trent Jones Jr., Tom Watson & Sandy Tatum, 1987

    Links-style golf through restored dunes at the top of 17-Mile Drive, bagpiper at sunset included.

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    1 upcoming amateur eventNext: AmateurGolf.com 2027 Two Man Links and Father and Son at Pebble Beach (Mar 19 — 22, 2027) →
  5. #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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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