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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.

Whistling Straits (Destination Kohler)

Mosel, Wisconsin2 ranked courses

  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. #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

Sand Valley

Nekoosa, Wisconsin4 ranked courses2 upcoming events

  1. #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. #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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  3. #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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  4. #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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Erin Hills

Erin, Wisconsin1 ranked course

  1. 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

Blackwolf Run (Destination Kohler)

Kohler, Wisconsin1 ranked course

SentryWorld

Stevens Point, Wisconsin1 ranked course

  1. 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