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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. 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
  2. #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
  3. 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
  4. 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