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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. #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
  2. #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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    2 upcoming amateur eventsNext: U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship (Sep 26 — Oct 1, 2026) →
  3. #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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    2 upcoming amateur eventsNext: U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship (Sep 26 — Oct 1, 2026) →
  4. #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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    2 upcoming amateur eventsNext: U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship (Sep 26 — Oct 1, 2026) →
  5. 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
  6. #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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    2 upcoming amateur eventsNext: U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship (Sep 26 — Oct 1, 2026) →
  7. #40Blackwolf Run (Destination Kohler)

    Blackwolf Run (River)

    Kohler, Wisconsin · Pete Dye, 1988

    Dye's dramatic routing along the Sheboygan River — twice a U.S. Women's Open host and Kohler's inland masterpiece.

  8. #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
  9. 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